- 10:17 21/09/2013
A drunk police officer injured one of his colleagues and several other people when he crashed his Lexus car into a traffic police checkpoint at high speed in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Friday night, police said Saturday.
- 08:33 21/09/2013
North Korea’s coast guard has opened fire on a Russian fishing vessel in the Sea of Japan, a spokesman for the fishing company said.
- 06:33 21/09/2013
Russia has nominated film director Fyodor Bondarchuk’s movie “Stalingrad” for the US Academy Awards, a member of Russia’s Oscars nomination commission has said.
- 05:45 21/09/2013
A 61-year-old woman in central Russia died after falling asleep with a bullet in her leg, the Interior Ministry has reported.
- 04:21 21/09/2013
One serviceman was killed and another one wounded in an explosion in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya on Friday, the Russian Interior Ministry reported Saturday.
- 02:11 21/09/2013
The mayor of Mexico City has accepted an invitation from his Moscow counterpart Sergei Sobyanin to visit the Russian capital, Russia’s ambassador to Mexico told RIA Novosti.
- 01:06 21/09/2013
The United States has not ruled out military strikes against Syria if Damascus does not abide by a US-Russian plan to hand over its chemical weapons arsenal, a White House official said Friday ahead of UN Security Council talks on enforcing the disarmament program.
- 00:48 21/09/2013
A US Senator and leading voice on the tangled and thorny topic of international child adoption said this week Russia is doing “a great disservice to itself” by raising parentless children in institutions, but expressed little hope that Moscow’s ban on adoptions of Russian children by American parents would be lifted anytime soon.
- 23:33 20/09/2013
Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, will take part in five-day naval exercises in the Barents Sea from Saturday until September 25, a spokesman for Russia’s Northern Fleet said Friday.
- 23:08 20/09/2013
Two members of the Russian Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster fined a combined $400 over a “pasta procession” dispersed by Moscow police in August.
- 22:58 20/09/2013
Russia placed second after the United States in the number of confidential information leaks globally in the first half of the current year, an information security company said Friday.
- 22:51 20/09/2013
A Russian filmmaker has said he would seek foreign funding for a biopic of the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, widely believed to have been a homosexual, amid ongoing controversy about Russia’s recently adopted anti-gay law.2
- 22:27 20/09/2013
The countdown for the return of Moldovan wine to the Russian market will start as soon as Chisinau establishes a reliable system of quality control at its wineries, Russia’s chief consumer rights official said Friday.
- 22:03 20/09/2013
Global media giant Viacom has taken back control of the MTV network in Russia after years of franchising the brand to local license holders, and will relaunch the channel Oct. 1, an entertainment news website has reported.
- 21:42 20/09/2013
A Moscow city court on Friday rejected the first of 952 lawsuits by runner-up mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny seeking to annul the September 8 election over alleged violations.
- 21:11 20/09/2013
The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s Moskva warship has arrived to lead Russia’s naval task force in the Mediterranean Sea, a fleet spokesperson said Friday.
- 20:40 20/09/2013
Russian authorities said Friday that a seized Greenpeace icebreaker was being towed from the Arctic Pechora Sea to the port of Murmansk, where it will be investigated for “piracy” over its alleged attack on a Gazprom oil rig.
- 20:33 20/09/2013
Officers of the Russian Strategic Missile Force’s Seventh Guards Division launched a rocket and washed radiation off a Topol-M launch pad. Watch RIA Novosti’s video footage of these military exercises.
- 20:04 20/09/2013
A Russian film director said Friday that he planned to work on a film about the founder of VKontakte, an immensely popular social-networking website that has often been dubbed “Russia’s Facebook.”
