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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
Add commentsTwo cosmonauts completed an almost six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday and unfurled a Russian flag in space.
Convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout on Thursday asked a US federal appeals court to overturn his conviction on charges of conspiring to kill Americans in a case he calls politically motivated.
A Russian Zubr (“Bison”) hovercraft, the largest type of military hovercraft in the world, on Sunday ploughed into a Kaliningrad Region beach filled with dozens of sunbathers, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported.
US authorities are examining an allegation that a reseller for software giant Microsoft bribed executives at a Russian state-owned telecommunications company in order to secure a contract, according to US media reports.
Moscow police are investigating a scholar who claims to have been beaten up by three police officers, a Russian state newspaper said Thursday.
Former US President Richard Nixon and former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev chatted about superstition, jet lag and cutting down on smoking ahead of their historic 1973 summit in Washington, according to secret White House recordings released this week.1
A converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) put South Korea’s Kompsat-5 satellite into orbit on Thursday under the Dnepr satellite-launch program, a spokesman for Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) said.
Reports alleging the use of chemical weapons in Syria may be aimed at disrupting the preparation of an international conference on Syria in Geneva, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
It’s not only the living who are at risk of being eaten by brown bears in Russia’s Far East.
The flood in Russia’s Far East has affected about 150 residential areas. Some 23,000 people have been evacuated.
Russia on Thursday denied that two Tupolev Tu-95 bombers violated Japanese airspace when carrying out routine flights earlier that day near Okinoshima Island, off the southeast coast of Japan.
Some 850 residents in the partly flooded city of Khabarovsk in Russia’s Far East have refused to leave their homes, despite the Amur River already passing the critical level by one meter (three feet) and rising further, municipal authorities said on Thursday.
US President Barack Obama's official visit to Russia has been postponed, not cancelled, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
Russia's Defense Ministry said Thursday it was “surprised” by media reports claiming it was planning to take control of the Emergencies Ministry.
Russia's leading aerospace exhibition and air show MAKS-2013 will take place in Zhukovsky (Moscow region) on August 27 – September 1. A wide range of combat and civilian, mass-produced and prototype aircraft will be exhibited at the event.
Earthquake hazard notwithstanding, Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov has approved construction of an 80-story, 400-meter (1,320 feet) “vertical city” in the Russian North Caucasus republic’s capital Grozny, his government said Thursday.
A Moscow court on Thursday rejected a motion launched by opposition activist Alexei Navalny to verify the paperwork permitting his rival for Moscow mayor – the incumbent, Sergei Sobyanin – to run again for the office.
The Russian Interior Ministry said Thursday that about 1,000 violations of migration law have been discovered over the past 24 hours as a result of police raids on markets across Russia.