- 21:12 24/04/2013
The first time Claudio Diaz hugged the Russian girl he and his wife would soon adopt, he says, “It was like hugging a cardboard box.”
- 21:09 24/04/2013
Police in central Dagestan killed two suspected militants on Wednesday, including a former student of a university in Cairo, Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) said.
- 19:44 24/04/2013
The Nizhny Novgorod-based Sokol aircraft manufacturer said on Wednesday it will develop a light aircraft for training air force pilots.
- 19:27 24/04/2013
The Russian military expects the first launch of a new Angara carrier rocket to take place in 2014 after the construction of a new launch complex at the Plesetsk space center is completed, Deputy Defense Minister Col. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said Wednesday.
- 18:46 24/04/2013
A Hague court has sentenced a former Dutch foreign ministry official to 12 years in jail for passing sensitive documents on NATO and the European Union to Russia.
- 18:22 24/04/2013
Alexei Navalny, the man who led mass protests against the rule of President Vladimir Putin in 2011 and 2012, told a court in the central Russian city of Kirov on Wednesday that embezzlement charges that could send him to jail for up to 10 years were the Kremlin’s “revenge” and aimed at sidelining him politically.
- 18:07 24/04/2013
Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot posted an IFRS net profit of $166 million in 2012, down 66 percent on the previous year, the company said on Wednesday.
- 18:05 24/04/2013
Continuous exchanges of gunfire between Sunni Muslims and Alawite Muslims in Lebanon’s second largest city, Tripoli, located in the north of this multi-faith country 50 kilometers away from the Syrian border have split residents into two hostile camps. Syrian refugees, whose numbers have been growing steadily in recent months, also figure in the conflict.
- 17:47 24/04/2013
The Russian Defense Ministry will allocate 10 billion rubles (about $300 million) to training programs for special forces, Col. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov, commander of the Airborne Assault Forces (VDV), said on Wednesday.
