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India may join Russia"s nuclear center of a low-enriched uranium (LEU) reserves project in Angarsk, the chairman of India"s Atomic Energy Research Commission said.


MOSCOW, May 1 (RIA Novosti) - About 400,000...

MOSCOW, May 1 (RIA Novosti) - About 400,000 Russians on Friday celebrated Spring and Labor Day, with trade unions and political parties holding rallies across the country. "As of 15:00 Moscow time [11:00 GMT], 491 demonstrations, rallies and assemblies took place in Russia, with about 400,000 people participating," police said, adding that 32,000 police and Interior Ministry troops worked to ensure public order during the events across Russia. May 1 is Spring and Labor Day across Russia, a national holiday. In Soviet times May 1 saw massive Communist Party rallies. Moscow police reported earlier in the day that as around 25,000 people were taking part in events in downtown Moscow to mark the day, including demonstrations by the ruling United Russia party, the Communists and trade unions, the ultranationalist LDPR Party and the liberal Yabloko party. No public order problems were reported in Moscow, but police have detained 120 nationalists, anti-fascists and anarchists following demonstrations in St. Petersburg. Police seized a number of knives and rubber-bullets pistols.


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Dutch trainer Dick Advocaat has dismissed media speculation that he has signed a deal to take over from fellow countryman Guus Hiddink as trainer of the Russian national team.

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MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - The...

In an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio, Gennady Onishchenko said that initially the number of people registered as HIV-positive in Russia ran at 40,000-42,000 people annually.

"The annual figures later dropped to some 36,000 registered cases, but last year"s figures showed 40,000 again," he said, adding that intravenous drug use is still the main method of transmitting the virus.

According to the State Statics Service, Russia"s population stood at 141.9 million people in the first half of 2009.




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