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Moscow: Visiting Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday expressed the hope that the signing of the landmark inter-governmental agreement on the peaceful use of atomic energy between India and Russia would expand the horizon of nuclear relationship between the two countries.

A collaborative investigation undertaken by Ghana's mission in Moscow and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has uncovered a human trafficking and prostitution ring which recruits young Ghanaian women for commercial sex work in Moscow and other cities of the Russian Federation.

Flag flies at half-mast at Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 7, 2009. Flags flew at half-mast on Monday as Russia held a day of national mourning for the victims of the "Lame Horse" nightclub blaze that killed 112 people and injured a further 130.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inspects the guard of honour at Vnukovo airport outside Moscow, Russia.

New Delhi, Dec.5 : Prime Minister will be in Moscow for the Annual Summit Meeting with the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday.

New Delhi, Dec.5 : During Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-day official visit to Moscow which begins on Sunday, India and Russia are likely to sign a host of agreements of significance, which will be a reflection of the breadth of their relationship and particularly, the depth of their cooperation in the defence sector, said Foreign Secretary ...

An Interior Ministry spokesman said a civilian was killed and four senior police officers wounded by an unidentified gunman in a volatile province in southern Russia.

The United States and Russia failed to reach agreement on temporary nuclear verification measures before the expiration of a major arms control treaty but pledged to continue working "in the spirit" of the 1991 pact.

's ordeal describe his survival as nothing short of a miracle. The once fit, towering 51-year-old who campaigned on environmental issues and criticized his city government's policies through the pages of his newspaper is now gone.

Russia's top investigator was injured by a bomb that went off as he and colleagues scoured the wreckage of a passenger train derailed by an earlier explosion, his office said Tuesday.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in July proposed to Akhmed Zakayev, a leader of the nationalistic and comparatively moderate Chechen opposition, that he return to Chechnya.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday that the Russian government will step up the fight against terrorism following a deadly train bombing that killed 26 people last week.

An arbitration panel has ruled that shareholders in the former Yukos oil company, which was disbanded by the Russian government in 2007, are entitled to seek an estimated $100 billion in damages from the Russian government, lawyers for the Yukos shareholders said on Tuesday.

Dubai's leader tried to calm panicky investors as regional markets tumbled for a second day on news that the city-state's chief conglomerate needs to delay payments on its $60 billion in debt for six months.

Astronauts from Canada and Belgium and a Russian cosmonaut landed safely on the Kazakhstan steppe on Tuesday, wrapping up a six-month stint on the International Space Station.

Russian tabloid's editor promotes a new type of journalism, more emotional and interesting than the staid traditioal newspapers + Enlarge This image The web version of Russian daily newspaper Pravda displayed on a monitor at an internet cafe in Moscow, Russia in April 2007.

Russia's domestic intelligence service Saturday said a train disaster that killed at least 39 people and injured nearly 100 was caused by a bomb.

Russian officials opened a terrorism investigation Saturday, saying that a homemade bomb planted on the tracks of the high-speed Moscow-to-St. Petersburg route caused a derailment that killed at least 26 people and injured dozens more.

AT least 22 people were killed and 54 injured on Friday when a train travelling between the Russian capital Moscow and Saint Petersburg derailed, possibly as a result of an attack, Russian media reported.

There is no space for tourists wishing to fly to the International Space Station, a top Russian space official said Thursday.