- 23:59 19/04/2013
A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
- 23:00 19/04/2013
Russia plans to deorbit and sink its Pirs docking module of the International Space Station later this year, a high-ranking official with the Russian space corporation RKK Energia said on Friday.
- 22:21 19/04/2013
The European Court of Human Rights has handed down a ruling that rights activists called unprecedented in its implication of Chechen law enforcement officials in a kidnapping case.1
- 21:39 19/04/2013
Russian aerobatic display teams the Swifts and the Russian Knights will join a host of military aircraft in the Victory Day parade on May 9 in Moscow, Maj. Gen. Alexander Kharchevsky said on Friday.
- 21:35 19/04/2013
Egypt has invited Russia to join a project to build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in the country and to develop Egyptian uranium deposits, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday.
- 21:34 19/04/2013
One of the brothers suspected of involvement in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings left on a Russia-bound plane in January 2012 and returned to the United States seven months later, the NBC 4 New York television station reported Friday, citing travel records the network said it had obtained.
- 21:10 19/04/2013
The city of Boston remained on lockdown Friday as police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) mounted a massive manhunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is suspected of being one of two men who planted bombs at the finish line of Monday’s Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured almost 200 others.
- 21:00 19/04/2013
Russian troops stationed at a military base in Abkhazia will receive up to 40 upgraded armored personnel carriers (APCs) featuring improved ballistic protection and air conditioning, the press service of the Southern Military District said on Friday.
- 20:12 19/04/2013
A girl from the Perm Territory in the Urals made headlines in Russia after she decided to join the Russian Army to serve together with her boyfriend, a local military official said on Friday.
- 19:33 19/04/2013
A St. Petersburg Сity Сouncil deputy has asked the Russian Prosecutor General's Office to look into the alleged violation of immigration and tax legislation by the organizers of a concert by US pop diva Madonna in Russia.
- 19:05 19/04/2013
Russian lawmakers passed a bill in the second reading on Friday expanding the list of prohibited foreign assets for government officials.
- 18:14 19/04/2013
Sergei Udaltsov, a leader of the Left Front political movement, said on Friday that his organization would change its name in response to a ban on its activities by the Prosecutor’s Office.
- 18:14 19/04/2013
Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) started a six-hour spacewalk on Friday to carry out a number of maintenance tasks, Russian Mission Control said.
- 17:35 19/04/2013
The two suspects in the deadly bombing of this week’s Boston Marathon hailed from a Russian region near Chechnya, the Associated Press reported on Friday, citing an unidentified source.1
- 16:15 19/04/2013
Russia's Communications Ministry has appointed Dmitry Strashnov, the former CEO of Russian mobile operator Tele2 Rossiya, to head Russia’s postal monopoly Russian Post, the ministry said on Friday.
- 15:34 19/04/2013
The Dutch authorities have found no connection between Russian activist Alexander Dolmatov's suicide and the conditions in the deportation center in which he was being held, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Alexander Lukashevich said on Friday, quoting a report from the Dutch Safety and Justice Inspection.
- 15:31 19/04/2013
Russia orbited the world's only returnable satellite dedicated to biological research in space on Friday, helping to pave the way for future interplanetary flights, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
- 15:25 19/04/2013
Brown bears in the Russian region of Kamchatka, considered to be some of the world’s largest, have started coming out of hibernation, a local nature reserve reported on Friday.
- 14:57 19/04/2013
Russians quizzed in an opinion poll released on Friday handed their government, headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the unflattering equivalent to a "C" grade for overall performance.
