- 22:09 05/04/2013
Russia got off to a strong start in the Davis Cup Friday as Dmitry Tursonov eked out a win over Great Britain’s Daniel Evans.
- 22:09 05/04/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the recent financial meltdown in Cyprus proved how "risky" and "insecure" investments in Western financial institutions can be.1
- 21:47 05/04/2013
Russia has begun setting up a naval task force in the Mediterranean, sending several warships from the Pacific Fleet to the region, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
- 21:21 05/04/2013
Literature, sports, jurisprudence and public projects will top the list of Vladimir Putin's interests when he decides to quit politics, the Russian president said on Friday.
- 20:26 05/04/2013
Russia is not looking to oust Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and wants the conflicting parties to negotiate and stop the “massacre,” putting an end to the “catastrophe” in Syria, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.1
- 20:09 05/04/2013
The Russian-language division of Wikipedia, the world’s largest free online encyclopedia, has received notification from the state media and communications watchdog Roskomnadzor that part of its content has been included on an Internet blacklist.
- 19:15 05/04/2013
President Vladimir Putin insisted on Friday that the Kremlin was committed to the goal of democratic development, but said Russia needs more time to overcome the legacy of almost 70 years of Soviet rule.
- 17:51 05/04/2013
The International Association of Athletics Federation criticized Russian government officials – including President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev – Friday for failing to adequately promote this year’s world championships, which will be held in Moscow in mid-August.
- 17:19 05/04/2013
The Soviet soldier found in Afghanistan after 33 years on a Missing in Action list said it is too late for him to return to his native country, a spokesman for a Soviet veteran organization told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 16:39 05/04/2013
Russia will unveil its most advanced aircraft, the Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker fighter jet and the Ka-52 Alligator helicopter gunship, at the Paris Air Show in June, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Friday.
- 08:27 04/04/2013
The first international treaty establishing rules for cross-border conventional arms trade lacks practical aspects, Russian Foreign Ministry Security and Disarmament Department Director Mikhail Ulyanov said.
- 21:55 03/04/2013
The Central Bank is seriously concerned by a notable slowdown in Russia’s economic growth, the bank's head Sergei Ignatyev said on Wednesday.
- 21:28 03/04/2013
British artist Adele Morse, the creator of the stuffed Stoned Fox that inspired thousands of Internet memes across the world, brought her most famous piece of taxidermy to Russia's second-largest city of St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
- 20:46 03/04/2013
The space tracking station that is being built in South Africa as part of Russia’s astrophysical project RadioAstron can only be used with the radio telescope, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
- 19:26 03/04/2013
Protest movements in former Soviet republics are bankrolled by states seeking to destabilize the situation there, the head of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said on Wednesday.
- 18:42 03/04/2013
Russia’s parliamentary committee on security urged the parliament Wednesday to pass in a first reading a presidential bill that would allow the Federal Security Service (FSB) to dispatch its officers abroad on a permanent basis.
- 17:33 03/04/2013
Moscow’s Presnensky Court issued a warrant for arrest in absentia on Wednesday for prominent lawyer Boris Kuznetsov, now residing in the United States, who is accused of divulging state secrets.
- 14:25 03/04/2013
The RIA Novosti media group has joined the Light It Up Blue international campaign to raise awareness of autism.
- 14:52 02/04/2013
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has named Russian News & Information Agency RIA Novosti as the official host national news agency for the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games.
