Kazan, Russia News

MOSCOW, May 14 Investigators said on Tuesday they have wrapped up an investigation into eight former police officers of a Russian precinct notorious for the fatal torture of a detainee last year, ending a year-long probe into the case that has become a vivid stain on Russia's attempted police reform.

St. Petersburg easily beat Moscow at the most popular destination among Russian travelers for the May holidays, a leading online hotel booking site said Monday.

The trial on the case of the tragic sinking of Bulgaria ship has recently started in the Republic of Tatarstan.

Aircompany Tatarstan took delivery of the first Cessna Grand Caravan 208 aircraft.

North Augusta High School graduate Olesya Vaskevich, a native of Russia and a third-year University of South Carolina law student, receives the John O. McDougal Family Law award recently from School of Law Dean Robert Wilcox, left, and McDougal.

While transportation remains one of the biggest issues for Russia, the country is trying to add speed to its trains, the most beloved way of travelling for most Russians.

The state testing of Tu-214OS surveillance aircraft manufactured in the network of The Treaty on Open Skies was started in Russia, press-service of United Aircraft Corporation reports.

An A320 plane under construction at the final assembly line of Airbus factory in China last year.

The Eureka Chamber Music Series concludes its 20th year of bringing accomplished musicians to the North Coast with pianist Daria Rabotkina, deemed by the Washington Post to have "clearly prodigious musical gifts." Those gifts have been heard and seen around the world and will likely thoroughly impress local lovers of chamber music when she appears ... (more)

Sviyazhsk seems ready to settle underneath the waters of the Volga River. A motley of churches, bell towers, and teetering homesteads is all that remains above ground.

Remember, the Chechen Islamic terrorists and their war with Russia? They were behind the school massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia, in September, 2004.

On April 15 terrorism came to Boston, the cradle of American liberty. While the terrrorists' motives are still unknown, lessons we need to learn already are emerging.

He noted that Tu-214 is being manufactured by Kazan Aircraft Production Association .