Perm, Russia News

Russian retired heavyweight boxer Nikolai Valuev voiced his concerns over the conflict in Syria.

The Cyprus Tourist Organisation said on Friday it expected tourist arrivals from Russia to be over 400,000, announcing at the same time the launching of flights from sever more airports of the Russian Federation.

During his tour of duty with the Oshawa Generals, Orillian Brett Parnham ran up against some of the toughest players ever to lace on a pair of hockey skates.

The country may be in the midst of a fractious period, with widespread civil unrest over Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's plans to return as President at next month's polls.

In this photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drinks tea as he speaks to amateur hockey players during a visit in the Perm region in the Ural Mountains, about 1500 kilometers east of Moscow, Russia.

In this photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drinks tea as he speaks to amateur hockey players during a visit in the Perm region in the Ural Mountains, about 1500 kilometers east of Moscow, Russia.

Russia's Yabloko opposition party says the office of a Russian regional newspaper that it publishes has been destroyed in an attack with a Molotov cocktail.

The rally in Yekaterinburg appeared to be a move by the authorities and trade unions to show Putin retains broad workers' support after the mass protests against his rule mainly attended by the Moscow middle class.

Back in 2008, budding paleontologists, Juan Cisneros and Cesar Schultz, still college students, found a skull in a part of Brazil known as the pampas region of Rio Grande do Sul.