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Exhibitions

A detailed check of the Large Hadron Collider...

A detailed check of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running at a low energy has showed that it is "performing well," the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on its website Thursday.

A draft agreement on U.S. poultry supplies...

A draft agreement on U.S. poultry supplies to Russia may be ready by the end of the week, Russia"s chief sanitary official said on Wednesday.

A Dubai court sentenced on Monday two men...

A Dubai court sentenced on Monday two men to 25 years in prison for their roles in the murder of the commander of a Russian Defense Ministry battalion in Chechnya.

A Moscow court warned media on Thursday...

A Moscow court warned media on Thursday against exerting pressure on judges over a RIA Novosti photo correspondent fined for photographing an unsanctioned opposition meeting.

An explosive device detonated on Tuesday...

An explosive device detonated on Tuesday on a railway track in St. Petersburg, slightly injuring a train driver, investigators said.

A Russian carrier rocket put a U.S. telecommunications...

A Russian carrier rocket put a U.S. telecommunications satellite into orbit on Sunday morning, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said.

A ski marathon and the ice hockey finals...

A ski marathon and the ice hockey finals, which are among the most spectacular winter sports, were held on the last day of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

A small plane crashed into a building in...

A small plane crashed into a building in the U.S. state of Virginia on Tuesday; the pilot later died and the passenger was injured, the Roanoke Times reported citing airport officials and eyewitnesses.

ASTRAKHAN (South Russia), September 16 (RIA...

ASTRAKHAN (South Russia), September 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s advanced S-500 air defense system could be developed in the next few years, the Air Force commander said on Wednesday.

At least two police officers were killed...

At least two police officers were killed and another two injured in a series of two explosions, at least one of them caused by a suicide bomber, in Russia"s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia, local police said on Monday.

A total of 67 people have been killed in...

A total of 67 people have been killed in about 600 fires that broke out in Russia in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for Russia"s emergencies ministry said on Friday.

Canadian snowboarder Jasey Jay Anderson...

Canadian snowboarder Jasey Jay Anderson brought his Olympics-hosting country 12th gold medal after winning in men"s parallel giant slalom.

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic arrives...

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic arrives in Moscow on Sunday for a two-day working visit.

Former world No. 1 Maria Sharapova has won...

Former world No. 1 Maria Sharapova has won the Cellular South Cup in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championship tennis tournament in Memphis, Tennessee.

Germany issued permission on Monday for...

Germany issued permission on Monday for the construction of Russia"s Nord Stream gas pipeline in its exclusive economic zone.

Guus Hiddink"s agent Cees Van Nieuwenhuizen...

Guus Hiddink"s agent Cees Van Nieuwenhuizen said he will discuss with the Dutch trainer terms of his contract with the Russian Football Union (RFU) in January next year.

Iran"s nuclear chief has said that Iran...

Iran"s nuclear chief has said that Iran will use 20%- enriched uranium to produce nuclear fuel solely for domestic purposes.

KIEV, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - The absence...

KIEV, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - The absence of a Russian ambassador in Kiev means that bilateral relations have been frozen, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was quoted as saying in an interview with a Polish paper on Tuesday.

Liverpool star Yossi Benayoun could sign...

Liverpool star Yossi Benayoun could sign for Dynamo Moscow by Friday after personal terms were agreed, the Russian club said.

MAGAS, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - The leader...

MAGAS, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - The leader of Russia"s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia dismissed the government on Monday, citing its failure to tackle socio-economic problems and corruption.

MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - North Korea...

MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - North Korea said on Wednesday it would conduct further nuclear tests and rocket launches if the UN Security Council did not apologize for its recent criticism of Pyongyang, South Korea"s Yonhap said.

MOSCOW, August 15 (RIA Novosti) - The tracking...

MOSCOW, August 15 (RIA Novosti) - The tracking device aboard the Russian-crewed Arctic Sea, missing since late July, was briefly reactivated on Saturday showing the vessel to be located in the Bay of Biscay, a Russian maritime journal said.

MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...

MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian frigate Ladny has freed the Arctic Sea cargo ship in the Atlantic without firing a single shot and eight suspected hijackers have been detained, Russia"s defense minister said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...

MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian frigate Ladny has freed the Arctic Sea cargo ship in the Atlantic without firing a single shot and arrested eight alleged hijackers, Russia"s defense minister said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian-U.S...

MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian-U.S. agreement on military transit to Afghanistan will go into effect on September 6, although the United States has not made any requests yet, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Moscow and Washington signed the deal on military transit via Russian territory, both overland and by air, on July 6 during President Barack Obama"s visit to Russia. Andrei Nesterenko said the agreement would formally enter into force only after the "legal procedure" was finalized, adding that with regard to Russia that meant its ratification by parliament. Until then, he said, its implementation would only be provisional. He also said the United States had not as yet specified "transit parameters or plans." The official said Moscow operated on the assumption that "Russian-U.S. transit cooperation will become a significant contribution to ensuring security, stabilization and reconstruction of Afghanistan." The Russian foreign minister previously said Moscow would have the right to inspect U.S. military planes overflying its territory. Sergei Lavrov also said the U.S. planned to make 4,500 flights to Afghanistan via Russian airspace. Russia already has bilateral transit deals with Germany, France and Spain, and also signed an agreement with NATO in 2008 on rail transit of non-lethal supplies to Afghanistan. The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has about 64,500 troops in Afghanistan, including 30,000 from the United States, under a UN mandate to give security support to the Afghan government and stop the flow of drugs from the country. There are a total of 62,000 U.S. troops in the country, with that figure set to rise by 6,000.

MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti) - Studying...

MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti) - Studying the geological samples taken from the North Pole seabed during Russia's symbolic expedition last week could take six months, a Russian Academy of Sciences spokesman said Wednesday.

MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...

MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian businessman currently in custody pending trial published on Monday an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev claiming investigators were pressuring him to testify against his business partner. Vladimir Nekrasov, who owns the Arbat Prestige cosmetics chain, was arrested in Moscow last January on tax evasion charges along with Sergei Shnaider, an alleged mafia boss also known as Semyon Mogilevich. Nekrasov wrote that the prison chief and the investigator in charge of his case told him: "Do you want to get out of here, Nekrasov? Testify against Shnaider, and you"ll walk free tomorrow." Nekrasov, 47, has maintained that Shnaider, 62, is not linked to Arbat Prestige, but said in the letter published in Russian media on Monday that he has come under strong pressure to provide false evidence against Shnaider. In particular, he said his custody has been extended several times without a valid reason. In April, the Moscow City Court refused to release Shnaider despite the offer of a $2 million bail payment, equal to the back tax claim against Arbat Prestige. Shnaider has been wanted by a number of countries, including the United States, for more than 15 years for alleged involvement in organized crime and corruption. Believed to control the largest Russian mafia syndicate in the world, he is suspected of being involved in arms dealing, drug trafficking, the sex trade and money laundering. He served two jail terms in the Soviet Union in the 1970s for currency dealing offenses and fraud. Russian prosecutors allege that Shnaider was behind a tax evasion scheme said to have been used by Arbat Prestige. Arbat Prestige was established in 1989 and opened its first retail outlet in 1998. It now has a network of 64 outlets across Russia.

MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti) - A Proton-M...

MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti) - A Proton-M carrier rocket put into orbit on Wednesday a U.S. telecommunications satellite, the Russian Federal Space Agency said.

MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti) - Japanese...

MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti) - Japanese financial group Aruji will set up a fund worth 200 billion Japanese yen (over $1.85 billion) for investments in Russian real estate, the president of Aruji Gate Securities Inc. said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Almost four...

MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Almost four years after leaving the club, Yury Syomin was appointed as Lokomotiv Moscow"s new trainer on Tuesday, the side"s website said.

MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - A leading...

MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - A leading U.S. analyst has said the NATO-Russia Council is the perfect forum for talks on Arctic security.

MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti) - Burger King...

MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti) - Burger King Holdings, a U.S. fastfood chain, is in talks with Russian restaurants with an eye to expanding into the country, a respected business daily said Wednesday.

MOSCOW, May 5 (RIA Novosti) - MTS, Russia"s...

MOSCOW, May 5 (RIA Novosti) - MTS, Russia"s largest mobile phone operator, has agreed with a group of foreign banks to reschedule its $630 million syndicated loan until 2012, a source in banking quarters said on Tuesday. MTS, which provides services to over 93 million subscribers in Russia alone, raised a syndicated loan facility worth a total of $1.33 billion in April 2006. The loan facility was granted in two tranches, $630 million and $730 million, for three and five years, respectively. The loan facility was arranged by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., Bayerische Landesbank, HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V., Raiffeisen Zentralbank Oesterreich AG and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited. Later, some other major foreign banks joined the loan syndicate as its underwriters and managers. MTS channeled the loan proceeds into the refinancing of its liabilities, and also for general corporate needs, including the acquisition of companies. According to the source, the reschedule agreement with the banks is expected to be signed next week. The first tranche will have to be repaid at an annual interest rate of LIBOR plus 6.5% compared with the original rate of LIBOR plus 0.8%. On top of that, the mobile operator will have to pay a fee of 2.5% per annum to the consortium of banks. A company spokeswoman said that MTS, like any other company, was interested in the current economic conditions in prolonging the loan repayment as much as possible at a maximally advantageous rate. MTS posted a US GAAP net income of $1.93 billion and revenues of $10.25 billion in 2008.

Moscow Muslims will celebrate on Sunday...

Moscow Muslims will celebrate on Sunday the Prophet Muhammad"s birthday watching a "unique" laser show illustrating episodes from the Prophet"s life, the Russian Mufti Council has said.

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that the government will continue measures to overcome corruption, and pledged to improve existing legislation.

MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow...

MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has said Russia should reinstate direct elections for governors in the regions as a more democratic method of selecting regional leaders.

MOSCOW, November 8 (RIA Novosti) - A police...

MOSCOW, November 8 (RIA Novosti) - A police officer from the southern Russian city of Novorossiisk has been fired after posting a video on the web asking Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to launch a nationwide corruption probe, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday.

MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow...

MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court on Thursday extended custody of two men charged with hijacking the Arctic Sea cargo ship in July, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom.

MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) - The lower...

MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) - The lower house of Russia"s parliament adopted on Wednesday in the first reading a draft federal budget for 2010 and key budget parameters for the period until 2012.

MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Alrosa...

MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Alrosa, Russia"s largest diamond miner, said on Monday it sold diamonds worth $1.34 billion in January-September 2009, including sales to Russia"s State Depository for Precious Metals.

Moscow police detained about 30 people...

Moscow police detained about 30 people, including a controversial Russian opposition leader, on Wednesday as they attempted to hold an unauthorized protest in the city center, a local police spokesperson said.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Nina Kulikova.) – The early 1990s were a time when crime penetrated the Russian economy and money started flowing out of the country, whose legislation was lagging far behind the world’s anti-money laundering laws. As a result, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) put Russia on the black list of “tax havens” in 2000, which led to various discriminatory measures against Russian financial institutions.

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Maxim Krans) - Santa Claus might soon be a Russian citizen. At least, that is the hope of well-known Arctic explorer Artur Chilingarov, who will lead Arctic 2007, one of the biggest expeditions in the history of polar research.

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Navy has denied media speculation that the Moskva missile cruiser, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, needed repairs at a shipyard after a recent incident on board.

MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - A train...

MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - A train carrying Belarusian S-300 air defense systems has arrived at the Ashuluk training grounds in southern Russia to participate in Zapad-2009 strategic drills, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - North...

MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il congratulated Russian President Dmitry on his 44th birthday on Monday, Pyongyang"s official news agency said.

MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti) - Investigators...

MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti) - Investigators have not found any "compromising" cargo on board the Arctic Sea vessel, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General"s Office said on Saturday.

MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Navy"s Iman tanker will deliver material evidence from the Arctic Sea vessel to the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk in October, a high-ranking military official said on Monday.

MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - An...

MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - An expert urged on Wednesday a fourfold increase in pharmaceutical supplies to Russians to extend life expectancy in the country to 75 from 68 years.

MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian investigators said on Tuesday they had searched the Arctic Sea vessel and found only lumber registered in the ship"s cargo log.

NEW DELHI, January 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...

NEW DELHI, January 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and India are concerned about the deteriorating situation in Iraq, a joint statement said Thursday during the Russian president's visit to India.

NEW DELHI, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Indian...

NEW DELHI, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Indian President Pratibha Patil will pay a state visit to Russia on September 2-6, India"s foreign ministry said.

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, May 7 (RIA Novosti) - A...

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, May 7 (RIA Novosti) - A court has fined a school principal accused of copyright violation 5,000 rubles ($194), a judge involved in re-litigation said Monday. Alexander Ponosov, a school principal in a small town in the Perm Region, was charged last year after he bought a set of computers for his school containing unlicensed Microsoft software. He has maintained his innocence throughout the proceedings, saying he was unaware that the Windows software on the PCs was counterfeit. Microsoft did not file any lawsuit against him. "Ponosov was found guilty of copyright violation, including of 266,000 rubles ($10,322) in material damage to Microsoft Corporation, and is sentenced to a 5,000 ruble ($194) fine," Valentina Tiunova said. The maximum possible penalty under relevant provision of the Russian Criminal Court is five years in prison. Piracy had been a stumbling block in Russia"s WTO accession talks with the United States until they reached an agreement in November, when Moscow promised a clampdown on intellectual property violations in the country, the second-largest market for pirated material after China.