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A new explosion shook a Russian train Monday morning after a terrorist blast killed 25 people in the St.

Date : Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:22:34 PST Russia's Europe security pact draft offers mutual military assistance MOSCOW, November 29 A draft treaty on European security prepared by Russia allows signatory states to provide military assistance to each other, the Kremlin said Sunday.

A bomb exploded under a train in Russia's troubled Daghestan but there were no fatalities, police said today, just days after a similar blast killed 26 passengers on a train from Moscow to St.

Russia has seen a resurgence in terrorist attacks in recent years. Details of some of the more significant attacks: August 17, 2009: A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck carrying 200 kilograms of explosives blows himself up in the city of Nazran in the Russian republic of Ingushetia.

Breaking News , Disaster , Governance , Law , Religion , War & Conflict Languages: Russian Full Category List Excerpt An express train traveling from Moscow to St.

Neo-Nazis claim responsibility for terrorist attack on Russian train Moscow, 29.11.2009, 11:11, Friday's crash of a Russian express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg was caused by a terrorist attack.

Russia pressed ahead Sunday with a proposal for a sweeping new trans-Atlantic security treaty that has met a lukewarm reception in the West, publishing a draft the Kremlin said President Dmitry Medvedev had sent to foreign leaders.

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.

Officials say a powerful homemade bomb sent a high-speed Russian train off its tracks, killing at least 26 people.

Russia has destroyed 45% of its chemical weapon stockpiles one month ahead of a deadline under an international pact, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

RUSSIAN investigators have confirmed that the derailment of a passenger train which killed dozens of people was caused by a "terrorist attack", the Interfax news agency reported.

The lapdance bar where rocker Ronnie Wood wooed his Russian waitress has been busted - as a brothel.... The lapdance bar where rocker Ronnie Wood wooed his Russian waitress has been busted - as a brothel.

Two masked gunmen killed the commander of an elite Russian commando unit in the country's restive Dagestan republic Thursday, the local Interior Ministry said.

Kim Yong Nam , president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , meets with Sergei Mironov, chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, in Pyongyang, capital of the DPRK, Nov.

A passenger train derailed between Moscow and St. Petersburg late Friday, killing 22 people and injuring dozens of others, according to authorities and Russian news agencies.

Russia pledged to inject 50 billion rubles into OAO AvtoVAZ in return for technology from 25 percent shareholder Renault SA .

He expressed special concern over the fact that the cases of use of Russian firearms on the border are not single instances.

Date : Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:51:59 PST Representatives of Foreign Ministries of Russia and Great Britain discuss Nagornyy Karabakh settlement 2009-11-22 09:43:00 ArmInfo.

Thousands of women in Russia are subject to violence, including sexual abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking and crimes related to national traditions, according to a report released Wednesday.

While taxes for the year 2009 aren't due to the end of April 2010, only one full month remains to take certain actions that will minimize those tax liabilities.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov,... Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, center, and U.S. astronaut Timothy J. Creamer, right, are seen before the final test in a mock-up of the Zvezda and Zarya training module in Star City ...

Gunmen injured a commander of a special police force in the capital of the southern Russian republic of Dagestan early on Thursday, one of the attackers was killed in return fire, a local Interior Ministry official said.

The Russian central bank is preparing to invest in the loonie causing a surge in the Canadian dollar.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko pledged on Monday in an election campaign statement to force Russia's Black Sea Fleet to leave Ukraine's Crimea by 2017, according to RIA Novosti.

U.S. acceptance of a treaty banning landmines is "long, long overdue" and President Barack Obama should use a 10-year review this weekend to announce plans to join the accord, anti-landmines campaigners said on Monday.

Russian prosecutors launched on Tuesday a probe into the recent death in prison of a lawyer representing London-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital, a spokeswoman for the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said.

Vladimir Putin , Dmitry Medvedev and Boris Gryzlov entering the main hall for the United Russia Congress at Lenexpo on Saturday.

German car and truck maker Daimler AG said Tuesday it has signed two joint-venture agreements with Kamaz Inc.

At least eight people have been killed in an explosion that happened at Arsenal 31, ammunitions depot on the outskirts of Ulyanovsk, 900km south-east of Moscow, Russia.

In December of 2004, Igor Tabakov and staff writer Anatoly Medetsky traveled to the Vologda region for a story about a prison where 193 inmates were serving life sentences after former President Boris Yeltsin imposed on moratorium on capital punishment in 1996.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian also participated in the talks, as well as the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.

Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and risks losing its place as a leader in space travel, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday.

Date : Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:01:35 +0400 ARMENIA-TURKEY RAPPROCHEMENT: RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY RESPONDS TO "NOISE" OF ARMENIAN MEDIA Tert Nov 20 2009 Armenia Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Andrei Nesterenko, in a recently issued statement, responded to concerns in Armenian mass media on the subject of the Nagorno-Karabakh ...

Mine clearance began on Sunday in the Gulf of Finland, 30 kilometers south of Helsinki, where the Nord Stream pipeline will be laid.

The first blast will be set off after 3 p.m., local time (4 p.m., Moscow time), Nord Stream's senior project engineer and pipe laying specialist Simon Bonnell told the media. Navigation has been suspended within a radius of two kilometers from the area, he said.

Massive explosions have rocked a Russian ammunition depot, killing at least two people and prompting the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents.

Russian armed forces will form its first brigade fully equipped with short-range Iskander missile systems, said Russian Missile Forces and Artillery Commander Sergei Bogatinov Saturday.

The Russia-EU summit to be held in Stockholm on November 18 plans to discuss pressing issues of world politics and Russia-EU cooperation in line with the all-round dialogue in the political, trade, economic and humanitarian spheres, Itar-Tass learnt from a Kremlin source on Tuesday.

The month of November has been a poignant one for Russia and its fight against corruption -- arguably its biggest vice.

The integration of alcohol screening, treatment and referral into primary care and other medical settings is not routinely done.

Firefighters succeeded early Saturday in containing a fire at a military munitions depot in western Russia, which left at least two soldiers dead and 44 injured.

Yesterday evening, Monday the 16th of November, 26 year old anti-fascist Ivan "Vanya Kostolom" Khutorskoy was shot to death at the entrance to his home at Khabarovsk street in the east side of Moscow; according to some information with two shots to his head.

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Today in Russia there exists a tremendous flourishing of the arts, brought upon by a more free society, relative prosperity and a surge in interest in the arts by the huge numbers of young Russians populating the immense country.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has offered Russia her country's participation in the ambitious Glonass global positioning project.

The struggle against corruption in Russia is, more often than not, fictional. There is practically no real progress, which is borne out by the results of the annual report published on November 17 by the international non-governmental organization Transparency International.

EU and Russian leaders meet at a summit in Stockholm on Wednesday set to be dominated by energy issues, as Europe hopes to avoid an interruption of Russian natural gas supplies via Ukraine this winter.

Russia's top health official has proposed that the country's fashion designers create trendy face masks to combat swine flu, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Azerbaijan, Europe's closest energy ally in the Caspian basin, is threatening to sell its gas to Asian markets, pressuring the European Union to complete pipeline accords to boost its own deliveries from the region.

The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania , a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week.

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- Ecron Acunova, a full-service clinical research organization , with offices across Europe, in India and the US, has strengthened its Eastern European presence further by opening a new office in Moscow, Russia in October 2009.

Russia has provided an "unprecedented" 970 billion rubles to its defense industry this year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Nov.

Why did the Nazis hate the Jews? Why did the Tutsi hate the Hutu? Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies.

A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and ant-racist activists has erupted into Moscow's streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known as the Bonebreaker.

Kaliningrad , Nov 18 A Russian shipyard will float out the first of three frigates for the Indian Navy Nov 27, a company spokesman said.

St Petersburg News.Net Tuesday 17th November, 2009 Yekaterinberg , Nov 17 A Russian police officer from the Urals city of Severouralsk killed himself after accidentally shooting his female colleague dead, an official said Tuesday.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, an early supporter of a controversial project to build St Petersburg s first glass skyscraper, is now expected to scrap it because of mounting opposition at home and abroad.

Ricardo, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Ricardo plc, the leading independent provider of technology, product innovation and engineering solutions to the world's automotive, defense, transport and new energy industries, has announced today that its parent company has been awarded a major contract by Moscow based KATE LLC to partner it in the ...

Tuesday November 17, 2009 11:53 a.m. In this photo taken in March 2006 the Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker seen in the Russia's Pacific port of Vladivostok, about 6,400 km east of Moscow.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 SINGAPORE: Russia is to build up its navy over the coming decade, President Dmitry Medvedev announced on Monday, as he visited a Russian guided missile cruiser in Singapore.

The state intends to develop regions of Siberia and the Far East, including by attracting foreign investments, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with the crew of the Varyag cruiser.

Sometimes, one's biases can balance out very nicely. So please let me lay mine out in all their militant glory.

Frustrated with his lack of political power Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has decided to do something drastic.

A mongrel dog from a town in Russia's Kuban region has outstripped the crowned champion in the canine world - Pabst, a 4-year-old boxer mix.

Monday, 16 November 2009, 1:29 pm Press Release: The 51st Traverse Five young Kiwis are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

SUSPECTED cannibals killed a young man, ATE part of him and then sold other bits to a KEBAB house.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed the hope on Sunday that Russia and the United States would be able to sign a new nuclear arms reduction deal in December.

Russia has finally emerged out of its recessionary slump, but the economy and country-related ETFs may not move onward and upward as quickly as times past.

LJ user oleg_kozyrev posts six YouTube videos of Ulyanovsk arms depot blasts , shot by Russian video bloggers.

Three militants were killed in a security operation in the south Russian republic of Ingushetia on Friday, a local law enforcement officer said.

The editor of a paper in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory is to stand trial on charges of extremism after publishing an allegedly racist poem, prosecutors said on Friday.

Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

Gigi reaches up into her sun salutation. She steps back into her high lunge and kicks her legs straight into plank pose, a push-up she holds without wobbling for 10 seconds before looking up impatiently at her yoga teacher.

Explosions rip through an arms depot in Russia's city of Ulyanovsk in this video framegrab from footage by operator Alexander Fouralyov for the local REN TV channel on Nov.

Another Russian police officer has posted a video on the Internet in an attempt to highlight corruption among police, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.

Fire erupts Friday at the arsenal near Ulyanovsk, 720 kilometres east of Moscow, where 35 people are missing.

Two former Russian policemen and a former prosecutor are speaking out about abuse, corruption and trumped-up charges in YouTube postings.

Two deaths from swine flu have been confirmed in Russia's Urals, the sanitary watchdog in the Chelyabinsk Region said on Wednesday.

Alexei Dymovsky sits in full uniform and stares at the camera with tired eyes. "Maybe you don't know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivers an annual state of the nation speech at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 12 November 2009.

The Saint Petersburg-based Constitutional Court started examining whether Russian judges can hand out death sentences once a moratorium on capital punishment lapses in 2010.

MARK COLVIN: It's 91 years since the guns fell silent in the First World War and for tens of thousands of Australian soldiers it meant they could finally head home.

Russia's ambassador to the UN has received an envelope with white powder, the embassy's press secretary confirmed on Wednesday.

Ruslan Bakhtin said embassy employees "took necessary security precautions" and placed the envelope in a plastic bag, after calling police, who then investigated the powder.

At its recent meeting, the Presidential Commission for Modernization and Technological Development of Russia's Economy called for developing a transport-energy module with a megawatt-class nuclear propulsion unit.

The famous AK-47 rifle has remained unsurpassed in its durability and reliability for almost 70 years. Its creator Mikhail Kalashnikov marks his 90th birthday on Tuesday.

Mikhail Kalashnikov dreamt about protecting people, but his invention became the weapon of choice for two-thirds of the world’s armed forces, not to mention militants. In spite of this, Kalashnikov preaches a message of peace and kindness.

Russia's constitutional court has begun hearings into whether the death penalty can be re-introduced after a 10-year moratorium.

The designer of the Kalashnikov, sometimes called the world's most lethal weapon, was named a "Hero of Russia" on Tuesday by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating "the brand every Russian is proud of." "In our country, such phenomena do not happen every day," Medvedev told Mikhail Kalashnikov after decorating him with a gold medal ...

New Delhi, Nov.10 : Russia stands with India in combating terrorism and backs India's proposal of Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism , said Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation S.S. Sobyanin here on Tuesday.

A provincial policeman's emotional YouTube appeal to Vladimir Putin for an end to police corruption has become an internet hit.

The realization of the governmental policy, which will provide favorable conditions for existence and development of the domestic grain production, which the basis of the agro industrial complex of the country, is main task of the state regulation of the market of grains.

Russia's Gazprom saw its earnings halved in the first six months of the year due to lower natural gas prices and sinking demand in Europe, while overall debt jumped nearly a third, the company reported Monday, Nov.

Russia's Constitutional Court is deliberating on whether to restore the death penalty after a 13-year moratorium on executions expires in less than two months.

According to Cellular News, Yota , the Russian WiMax provider, disclosed that it has arrived at the operational breakeven point in only 5 months after the launch of the WiMax network in Moscow and St Petersburg.

's interior minister has ordered a report to be drawn up for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after a senior provincial police officer posted a video alleging chronic corruption in his force.

The death toll of A/H1N1 flu in Russia has climbed to 10, said the country's consumer rights watchdog on Tuesday.

Fedor Emelianenko left the Sears Centre Arena on Saturday with the moniker of world’s No. 1 heavyweight still intact, but it did not come without a struggle.

Previously undefeated Brett Rogers gave the Russian legend his toughest fight in recent years at Strikeforce/M-1 Global “Fedor vs. Rogers,” but Emelianenko prevailed with a dead-on right hook that cracked Rogers’ chin and then pounced on his larger foe with crushing follow-up punches. Referee John McCarthy halted the melee 1:48 into the second round.

Russia has provoked outrage in Poland by simulating a nuclear attack on the country during military exercises.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev listens to translation during a press conference with U.S. President Barack Obama after the signing ceremony of the Joint Understanding on Strategic Arms Reduction at the Kremlin on July 6, 2009 in Moscow, Russia.

A RUSSIAN military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia's Far East region, leaving all eleven crew members missing and presumed dead, officials said.

Bonfire Night thugs were blamed yesterday for the horrific death of a devoted mother.

Mary Fox pushed her teenage son through a window to safety as a blaze tore through their house.

But she was overcome by smoke and flames before she could escape herself.

Last night, neighbours said the blaze was started by a firework, dropped through Mrs Fox's letterbox by a gang who had bullied her son because of his mild learning difficulties.

Russia's foreign minister said Thursday he was surprised by Poland's call for more U.S. troops on Polish soil in response to Moscow's assertiveness, a news agency reported.

African swine fever hit Russia's southern Rostov Region in late September, and then spread to the neighboring Republic of Kalmykia.

In Havana on Wednesday, Cuban and Russian officials signed four international economic association contracts for hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation in discoveries that might be made north of the central and western part of the country.

A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader.

Sweden on Thursday became the second nation to approve a Baltic Sea pipeline that would ship Russian natural gas to Germany, saying the project meets its demands to protect the marine environment.

Reset or repair? David Miliband's much-anticipated visit to Moscow, the first of a British foreign secretary in over five years, has not produced a major breakthrough in bilateral relations between the UK and Russia.

But there is a now a unique chance to do more than just mending fences. Britain has the opportunity to press the "reset" button and gradually turn enhanced co-operation into a strategic partnership, much like President Obama has sought to do since talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, in the Kremlin in early July.

Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First the Palestinians held fair elections in 2006, voted for Hamas and were brutally punished for it – they still are – and then the Iranians held fraudulent elections in June which put back the weird Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whom everyone outside Iran (and a lot inside) regard as a dictator. But now we have the venal, corrupt, sectarian Karzai in power after a poll far more ambitiously rigged than the Iranian version, and – yup, we love him dearly and accept his totally fraudulent election.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed with U.S. President Barack Obama to coordinate on the future of Opel after General Motors' surprise decision to keep the unit, a German government spokesman said on Thursday.

In a telephone conversation with Merkel late on Wednesday, Obama said he had not been involved in the surprise decision by the GM board which has angered the German government.

Thousands of Opel auto workers in Germany downed tools on Thursday to show their anger at U.S. parent General Motors for its decision to abandon a Russian-backed rescue plan.

Russia accused General Motors of showing the United States' scorn of business with Europe by abandoning its sale of Opel, whose German workers went on strike on Thursday.

Thousands of auto workers protested at German factories, demanding independence from a company they said had betrayed them by reversing a decision to sell a majority stake in Opel to a Russian-backed consortium.

A plan by Russian-German consortium Nord Stream to build a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea cleared two major hurdles on Thursday as Sweden and Finland signed off on construction across their waters.

"Sweden gives permission for Nord Stream to lay 2 pipes on the continental shelf within the Swedish economic zone in Baltic Sea for the transport of natural gas," the government said in a statement.

A woman has died of swine flu in the Siberian Krasnoyarsk region, bringing Russia's death toll in the pandemic to five people, the regional health minister said on Thursday.

An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric here in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was tortured.

In rendering the verdict, the judge in the case, Oscar Magi, acquitted three other Americans, including the former Rome station chief for the CIA, saying they were covered by diplomatic immunity.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday expressed her disappointment over the U.S. General Motors (GM)'s decision not to sell Germany's Opel to the Magna-Sberbank consortium, German media reported.

Merkel, who said GM's decision was a "defeat," requested the country's economics minister, Rainer Bruederle, to raise the issue at Wednesday's cabinet meeting, Handesblatt reported. The German government has earlier pledged support for Opel only if it is sold to the consortium.

U.S. General Motors (GM) board of directors decided against selling Germany's Opel to the Magna-Sberbank consortium and to retain its big European car division, Germany's DPA news agency reported.

A RUSSIAN tycoon who organised a Michael Jackson concert in Moscow, was once jailed for spying in Israel and hired US women basketball stars to compete in his homeland has been slain by gunmen.

Iran's supreme leader said on Tuesday the U.S. approach to Iran was at odds with the slogan of bringing "change" to its policy, casting doubt on a UN-sponsored nuclear fuel deal.

"Iran will not be fooled by the superficial conciliatory tone of the United States," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech to students, Press TV reported.

His remarks, made on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the seizure of U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Islamist students, suggest that the IAEA proposal that Iran send most of its known uranium stockpile to Russia to be enriched could be derailed.

The World's Most Popular Footballer Amongst Currently Active Players in 2009

Europe:

1. Andrey Arshavin Russia 17.168

2. Iker Casillas España 8.627

3. Igor Akinfeev Russia 7.235

4. Artem V. Milevskiy Ukraine 6.971

5. Dario Srna Hrvatska 6.402

Ukrainian police in the Crimea stopped on Tuesday morning a Russian truck carrying anti-ship missiles in the fifth such incident this year.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet uses a range of naval facilities in Ukraine's Crimea, including a base in Sevastopol, as part of a 1997 lease agreement valid until 2017.

Russia has provoked outrage in Poland by simulating an air and sea attack on the country during military exercises.

Flight recorders were recovered Sunday from a plane crash that killed 11 people in Yukutia in Russia's Far East, authorities said.

BRITAIN and Russia on Monday failed to resolve a bitter dispute over the murder of a Kremlin critic in London that badly chilled relations, on the first visit by a British foreign secretary for five years.

Three American soldiers clashed with local residents near Varazi Hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia. Witnesses said drunken soldiers disputed with two local residents and one of the soldiers hit on the head of the local resident with a bottle. The US soldiers were in civilian clothes. They immediately left the site after the incident. Law-enforcement officers arrived at site. No official statement was made on the incident.

A computer generated image released by the European Space Agency of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite.

The victims were two women, aged 29 and 50, who died last month in a hospital in Chita, a Siberian city near the Mongolian border, Russia's top epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko said.

A Russian submarine successfully test-launched a ballistic missile on Sunday, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

From Russia's North Caucasus to the streets of Moscow, those who find themselves at odds with authorities can wind up as targets of deadly violence.

Nov. 1 - More than 50 people have been arrested in the Russian capital during an unauthorised protest.

Former tennis star Andre Agassi wore a wig held together with pins in his first Grand Slam final, excerpts from his autobiography have revealed.