- 10:22 06/08/2013
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The decision to drop the bomb – ironically known as “Little Boy” – that killed up to 200,000 people remains a subject of fierce debate to this day. Watch this RIA Novosti video for a chronicle of the event that changed the world.
- 12:33 05/08/2013
Russia has not received any official notification that US President Barack Obama intends to cancel a planned bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month, Putin’s spokesman said Monday
- 22:34 04/08/2013
A senior US Senator said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behaving like a “schoolyard bully,” and added his voice to growing calls for US President Barack Obama to cancel a planned bilateral meeting with Putin next month in Moscow.6
- 10:20 02/08/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 15:05 01/08/2013
A state blacklist of websites hosting pirated films that was launched in Russia on Thursday went down within hours, apparently failing to cope with the influx of web surfers, Digit.ru news website reported.
- 14:03 01/08/2013
Any new sanctions against Iran are aimed at “suffocating” the country’s economy, a senior Russian diplomat said after the US House of Representatives approved fresh sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic.5
- 22:57 26/07/2013
A Russian citizen living in New York has pleaded guilty to participating in a cybercrime ring that operated a $1 million securities fraud scheme, US officials announced this week.
- 07:58 25/07/2013
Russian ships in the Mediterranean help to transfer Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon’s Beirut directly to Syria, Turkish Hurriyet Daily News cited a top Syrian opposition military commander as saying.
- 15:07 23/07/2013
Kidnappers in Libya have demanded a $9.5 million ransom for 19 Ukrainian crew members from a ship seized in the port of Benghazi, a news report said on Tuesday.
- 10:11 22/07/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 13:11 04/07/2013
CIA leaker Edward Snowden may have found a soul mate in Russia.1
- 20:17 01/07/2013
Fugitive US security contractor Edward Snowden, believed to be somewhere in a Moscow airport transit zone, has asked 15 countries for asylum, the LA Times reported on Monday, citing an unnamed Russian Foreign Ministry official.
- 22:19 28/06/2013
When Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of the Russian Federation in late 1999, his popularity at rock-bottom, a group of high school friends from America’s heartland who were looking for a name for their band finally found it.1
- 21:49 28/06/2013
In a move that might very well set the Father of the World Proletariat spinning in his mausoleum, the American defense contractor AAR Corp. has announced that it is exploring the possibility of doing business in Vladimir Lenin’s birthplace of Ulyanovsk, rotor.com reported this week.
- 20:16 28/06/2013
A US lawmaker is seeking international assistance to resolve the adoption dispute between the United States and Russia, including Moscow’s decision to prohibit the adoption of Russian children by American parents that were already in process when the Kremlin imposed the ban earlier this year.4
- 17:26 28/06/2013
The father of fugitive former CIA employee Edward Snowden, believed to be in hiding in Russia’s Sheremetyevo airport, has said that his son is not a traitor and could return to the United States if he received certain guarantees, according to the US TV network NBC.1
- 23:07 26/06/2013
Russia is opening an airbase in northwestern Belarus, near the Polish and Lithuanian borders, within just a few months, a Russian Air Force general said Wednesday.
- 22:10 26/06/2013
Viacom announced this week that it had signed its first syndication contract to supply MTV branded content to a terrestrial Russian TV channel, worldscreen.com reports.
- 15:00 25/06/2013
Russia said on Tuesday that Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee wanted by the US for leaking state secrets, had not crossed the Russian border.
