- 16:28 14/03/2013
A man claiming to have a bomb has taken five people hostage at a college in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
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- 16:18 14/03/2013
Researchers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator confirmed on Thursday that a particle discovered in July 2012 is indeed the so-called Higgs boson, a key element in scientists' theories explaining the makeup of all the matter around us.
- 07:39 14/03/2013
Lithuania opens on Thursday it first in Russia and in the world visa center to ease procedures of obtaining visas in Moscow.
- 08:13 12/03/2013
Three sailors - two Russians and a Romanian - captured by pirates from a British-owned vessel off the coast of west Africa last month have been released, the ship’s operator has reported.
- 15:35 11/03/2013
The alleged leader of the Moscow cell of a banned Islamic militant group has been detained, Russian police reported on Monday.
- 20:12 08/03/2013
Moscow police detained 16 feminist protesters for violating public order during a sanctioned rally in the city center on Friday, the Interior Ministry reported.
- 15:18 08/03/2013
From Ho Chi Minh to Jawaharlal Nehru, plenty of foreign leaders have locations in Moscow named after them. But though the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may seem a fitting addition to the list, it looks like a stroll down Chavez Street would not be available to Muscovites just yet.
- 10:38 07/03/2013
The police and the Federal Security Service (FSB) have uncovered an underground arms factory and large cache of firearms in the Moscow Region, the Interior Ministry reported on Thursday.
- 23:05 06/03/2013
Most Russians approve of women participating in political activities, and would like them to occupy top state posts on a par with men, according to an opinion poll published by the Levada Center on Wednesday.
- 19:41 06/03/2013
The Berlin Wall was a powerful symbol for me of the rottenness of Marxist regimes as I grew up in the 1980s. After all, no country in the capitalist West ever built a wall to keep its inhabitants from escaping. Thus when I first visited the city in the late 1990s, one of the first things I did was visit the East Side Gallery of graffiti art, sprayed on a surviving stretch of the Wall.
- 20:47 05/03/2013
Police in Moscow have detained a suspect over a horrific acid attack on the Bolshoi Theater’s artistic director, a police spokesperson told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 06:19 05/03/2013
The Moscow State University has been placed in the 50th position in top 100 universities, according to the World Reputation Rankings, and is the only Russian university in the list.
- 17:15 04/03/2013
Three political activists were detained on Moscow’s Red Square on Monday for attempting to hold an unauthorized protest, city police said.
- 12:39 04/03/2013
A builder died after a piece of metal fell on him at Zenit St. Petersburg’s new soccer stadium, investigators said Monday.
- 12:33 04/03/2013
Russian police have opened a criminal case against the head of a defense enterprise suspected of embezzling over 21 million rubles ($700,000), the latest in a series of frauds uncovered in the domestic defense industry, the Interior Ministry reported on Monday.1
- 22:26 02/03/2013
Moscow police will investigate complaints against the organizers of Saturday’s state-endorsed rally against foreign adoptions who allegedly refused to pay its participants for attending the event.
- 20:12 02/03/2013
Russian opposition, often accused of ignoring the everyday concerns of the general public, held on Saturday a “Social March” aimed against policies of the Moscow City Hall, but in absence of a clear news peg, attendance figures were low and participants skeptical.
- 18:56 02/03/2013
Thousands came to a state-endorsed rally against foreign adoptions in Moscow on Saturday, intended as a show of public support of the government, but marred by reports about participants coerced or paid for attending.1
- 16:38 02/03/2013
Some 12,000 pro-Kremlin activists, according to police, rallied in central Moscow on Saturday to urge the government to extend a ban on US families adopting Russian children to all foreign nationals and ease domestic adoption rules.
