North Korean leader Kim Jong-il who is traveling across Russia in his armored train visited the largest hydropower plant in Russia's Far East on Sunday. Russian presidential envoy in the Far-Eastern Federal District Viktor Ishayev and Amur Region governor Oleg Kozhemyako gave him a short tour of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky had his jail term extended until 2017 on Thursday after being convicted of theft and money-laundering in a trial condemned in the West as politically motivated. Moscow judge Viktor Danilkin granted the prosecutors request and ordered ...

The bomb that went off at a railway station near Russia's Olympic city of Sochi damaged rail and halted train communication for a while in the area but there were no casualties in the incident, local police reported on Sunday. The bomb went off late on Saturday at the Matsesta railway station, the ...

The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with three crewmembers on board Wednesday blasted off from the Baikonur Space Station in Kazakhstan for its half-year mission on the International Space Station (ISS). The launch took place on schedule at 01.35 a.m.The crew included Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchihin and ...

Eight people were killed on Thursday in a bomb attack in Russia's southern region of Dagestan, the latest unrest in the troubled North Caucasus, officials said. "At around 10:30 (1130 GMT), an explosive device went off as repair workers drove by in a vehicle," the investigative committee of Russian ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The bloodiest bombing in years in Russias North Caucasus shows that the Afghanisation of the mainly Muslim region is proceeding apace, fuelled by poverty, corruption, clan wars and brutal law enforcement. Analysts said the suicide bombing at a police headquarters in the southern ...

UNITED NATIONS - Russia, wielding its veto power in the UN Security Council, brought an end Monday to the nearly 16-year-old observer mission monitoring a ceasefire between Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia region. Russia's veto late Monday toppled a Western plan to extend the life of the United ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom is keen to participate in a pipeline to carry Iranian gas to Pakistan, the Kommersant daily reported on Wednesday, citing company and government officials. We are ready to join the project as soon as we receive an offer, Russias deputy energy ...

BRISBANE (Australia) (AFP) - Seventh-seeded Russian Maria Kirilenko has withdrawn from the Brisbane International tennis tournament due to a virus, the organisers said Sunday. Kirilenko, the world No.29, was due to play Australian Samantha Stosur in the opening match of the tournament but pulled ...

ISLAMABAD - The 3rd seed Mikhail Vasiliev from Russia annexed the Men's singles title of PSO-ITF Leg-1 Pakistan Futures International Tennis Championships 2008 beating Adrian Sikora from Slovakia 2-0 in the final at PTF Tennis Complex Islamabad on Saturday. In the first set, the score went up to ...

TBILISI (AFP) - US Vice-President Dick Cheney accused Russia Thursday of an "illegitimate" invasion to redraw the map of Georgia and cast doubt on whether Russia could be trusted as an international partner. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili, Cheney pledged ...