Lomonosov, Russia News

Friday, October 30, Russia marked the Day of Victims of Political Repressions. A public meeting against repressions and for defense of the victims of political persecutions was held in Moscow.

Our geologists are taught fossil fuel theory in our schools; our energy companies search for fossil fuels by divining where the dinosaurs lay down and died.

'Few perhaps know /That for him there is naught sacred... /That he scorns freedom, /That he knows no homeland,' wrote Pushkin about Mazepa in his poem Poltava.

The State Duma lower house of Russia' s parliament on Wednesday will open to the strains of the national anthem its autumn session.

Of eight nations with rights to Arctic resources, Russia has been most aggressive in its claims.

The United States and Canada will begin in August a 42-day joint expedition to the Arctic to survey the continental shelf in the Arctic, the U.S. State Department has announced.

The Captain Lus, a Russian vessel that regularly delivers radioactove cargo to St.

Downplaying Russia's recent "jockeying" for position in the emerging polar oil rush, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has declared Canada an "Arctic superpower" that will be guided by science, international law and "world-leading Canadian technology" in securing its claim to resource riches in the North.

Canada pushes past North Pole in Arctic survey JONATHAN HAYWARD Photographer Title: STF Caption: A coast guard helicopter does ice reconnaissance in Baffin Bay above the arctic circle for the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent Thursday, July 10, 2008.

A leading U.S. analyst has said the NATO-Russia Council is the perfect forum for talks on Arctic security.

The beaver is starting to push back against the bear in the debate over who controls the top of the world.

Moscow police have arrested some 40 participants in a gay protest taking place in the city, ahead of the Eurovision song contest finals on Saturday.

In the summer of 2007, the Russian government sent two icebreakers to the North Pole on a mission that was supposed to be mainly scientific.