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The anniversary of the end of the Beslan school seige has been marked with a minute's silence throughout Russia.

The Russian town of Beslan remembered the terrorist attack that led to the deaths of 331 hostages, many of them children.

CIS anti-aircraft defense main result of Astrakhan exercise-Ivanov By Mikhail Petrov ITAR-TASS News Agency August 31, 2005 Wednesday SOCHI, August 31 - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov believes that ...

NEWS YOU CAN AFFORD TO MISS By Anna Arutunyan Moscow News August 31, 2005 Siberian Engineer Proves Fermat's Last Theorem on TV An engineering professor from Siberia's Omsk, Alexander Ilyin, proved the ...

Iraqi government has asked Russian power engineering specialists to continue working on the objects that they used to build before the beginning of 2003 U.S.-led invasion, RIA Novosti reported.4

Celebrated cellist joins pianist Stephen De Pledge in Wigmore Hall concert. Leading English cellist Matthew Barley is to perform with pianist Stephen De Pledge in a concert of Russian music and one of London's ...

A Holocaust, anti-Semitism and xenophobia information center has been set up under the Petrozavodsk branch of the Israeli cultural center and on the basis of the St.2.7

Kazakh law enforcement and security agencies have detained the organizers of a rally of the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Kazakhstan for its extremist views.4

Sakhalin and Kuril Islands in Russia's Far East are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the liberation from militant Japan.4

STIFLING anguished cries, survivors of the Beslan tragedy and relatives of more than 300 dead hostages observed a minute of silence overnight at the ruins of School Number One on the anniversary of the ...4

Downtown Granville was once dominated by movie theatres, pinball arcades, and sex shops.2.7

The death toll of the terrorist blast in the capital of Russia's southern republic of Dagestan hasreached four, consisting of two Russian servicemen and two civilians, the latest report of the Itar-Tass news ...

Fifty years ago this week the Soviet Union returned the paintings the Red Army had taken as trophies after the victory over Nazi Germany to the Dresden Gallery.4

GoogleEarth will be a huge help to terrorists, Russian intelligence experts warn.

Photos by Vicki Biggs-Anderson Above, Dianna Evstratova, summer worker from Russia, at Trail Center with benefactors and friends, Rod and Jan Johnson, Poplar Lake.1.3

The Soviet Nation: Most Russians,Armenians And Uzbeks Are Sure Of Their Ancient Origins And UniqueCharacteristics.

State Duma Deputy Speaker Georgy Boos, a member of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov's team, has been nominated for the post of governor of Kaliningrad Region.4

At least two people were killed when a military truck exploded Friday in the capital of the southern Russian region of Dagestan, NTV television reported.4.7

Uzbekistan's unending tragedy - 15 years of unremitting repression of its Muslims - has reached a critical impasse.2.7

The leaders of two regional republics in the Russian Federation signed an agreement on cooperation Friday.4

NEW YORK - Gazprom, Russia's natural gas monopoly, is looking into the possibility of purchasing Sibneft, one of the five largest oil companies in Russia.4

Police found the bodies of two young American men Thursday who have been missing for 10 days, but couldn't tell if foul play was involved in their deaths, authorities said.

Global Payments Inc., a world leader in electronic payment processing, today announced that MUZO, a.s., Global Payments' Prague-based, majority-owned subsidiary, recently opened a new office in Moscow to ...

In a tacit admission that its planned military commissions were a stacked deck, the Bush administration has approved expanding the legal rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees who face trials before the ...

Europe's largest household appliances producer BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate looks set to flood the Russian market with its own brand refrigerators as soon as from 2007.1.4

Freelance writer Lisa Dickey is traveling the length of Russia from Vladivostok to St.3.8

TOKYO - I've always had a lot of sympathy for Japanese TV presenters. With most programs in Japan related to food, if not food-centered, day in and day out hosts face the challenge of sampling every food known ...4.7

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told an international business forum Wednesday he would probably decide next year whether to run for the presidency of the United States.1.8

SPEECH OF FORMER MINISTER NIKOLAOS MARTIS 59TH PAN-MACEDONIAN CONVENTION IN KAVALA Dear ... The FYROM issue would not have been provoked if the German attack against Greece had not taken place, or if Tito had not dominated Yugoslavia.

A Russian man who cut himself in half with a circular saw is now recovering in hospital in the Russian city of Volgograd, the NTV television channel reported Thursday.4

A group of small construction business owners from Russia are visiting Northern Colorado companies over the next two weeks.1.3

A lack of money is holding up a project to build a new super-sized cargo plane, a business daily reported Thursday.4

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's speech at his party's pre-election conference receives mixed reviews in the country's press.2.9

An outbreak of avian flu in Russia appeared to be quickly spreading westward after officials confirmed the virus had broken out in a sixth region since the epidemic struck the country in mid-July. Russia, which ...

According to the governor, all the people, including those huddled in rescue centers and in the sports complex, must leave the city.4