Six men are to be voluntarily locked away in a module for almost one-and-a-half years to simulate psychological effects of a mission to Mars.
Non-crew members were in the cockpit of the plane of Polish president Lech Kaczynski before its fatal crash, officials said on Wednesday.
Russian rescue workers on Thursday stopped searching for 24 men still missing after a mine disaster that killed at least 66 people.
Hopes were fading on Monday of finding alive any of the 58 miners still trapped deep inside Russia’s largest underground coal mine.
Russian officials said on Monday the pilots of a plane that crashed and killed Poland’s president had received explicit weather warning.
Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski, its central bank head and the country’s military chief were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed.
United States President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev signed a landmark nuclear-arms reduction treaty on Thursday.
US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev will sign a treaty on Thursday that slashes their two nations’ atomic arsenals.
A bomber killed two policemen and wounded a third near the police headquarters of a town in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Ingushetia on Monday.
The plan had been straightforward: stuff their sacks, enjoy the countryside, and then head back home to the Chechen town of Achkoi-Martan.
The 17-year-old widow of an Islamist militant from the North Caucasus is suspected of blowing herself up in suicide attacks that killed 40 in Moscow.
Militants will not be allowed to "sow fear" in Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday after blasts killed 51 people this week.
Two blasts, one set off by a suicide bomber, rocked Kizlyar in Russia’s Dagestan region on Wednesday, killing at least nine people.
Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on packed metro trains in Moscow’s morning rush hour on Monday, killing at least 38 people.
Two blasts ripped through packed Moscow metro stations on Monday during rush hour, killing at least 34 people and wounding 18, Russian officials said.
United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sealed an agreement on Friday on a landmark nuclear-arms reduction treaty.
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Revda is a collection of apartment blocks that rise out of nowhere in Russia’s far north, a town whose existence hangs by a thread.
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/ 11 January 2010
Russian Fed Cup team skipper Shamil Tarpishchev said Monday that the country’s top players will miss this year’s opening round clash with Serbia.
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/ 10 December 2009
The death toll from a nightclub fire in the Russian city of Perm rose to 132 people on Thursday after seven more people died of severe burns.
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/ 7 December 2009
Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday for the 112 victims of a weekend nightclub blaze.
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/ 5 December 2009
More than 100 revellers have been killed in an explosion in a Russian nightclub, according to news agency reports.
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/ 29 November 2009
The simmering insurgency in Russia’s north Caucasus has exploded into open revolt. Daily attacks and bomb explosions have become part of life.
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/ 28 November 2009
At least 39 people were killed and nearly 100 injured when a Russian express train was derailed late on Friday.
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/ 17 November 2009
A senior Iranian MP was quoted on Tuesday as saying that Russia was using the Islamic Republic as a ”pawn” in Moscow’s dealings with other powers.
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/ 16 November 2009
The names of the final four European teams to qualify for next year’s World Cup will be known after the final leg of the play-offs on Wednesday.
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/ 14 November 2009
Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a kebab house.
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/ 9 November 2009
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin’s purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project, died in Moscow late on Sunday.
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/ 9 November 2009
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin’s purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project, died in Moscow late on November 8.
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/ 3 November 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday that he was proud of his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.
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/ 19 October 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday launched a bitter attack on the state of democracy in Russia, saying elections had turned into a mockery.
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/ 13 October 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met top Russian officials on Tuesday hoping to win Moscow’s support for tougher sanctions against Iran.