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MOSCOW: Russia’s defending champions Rubin Kazan retained their Premier League title with a 0-0 home draw with Zenit St Petersburg after their closest pursuers Spartak Moscow lost 3-2 in the Moscow derby with CSKA.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev harshly criticised Russia’s hegemonic United Russia political party for allowing dirty election practices at the party’s annual congress in St Petersburg, calling its methods ‘backwards’ and...
The words Tchaikovsky and Comedy don’t usually occur in the same sentence – and you may still be of that opinion after sitting through this expensively gift-wrapped but decidedly bland and singularly unfunny staging of the...
By CARL SCHRECK / MOSCOW Carl Schreck / Moscow – Fri Nov 20, 12:30 pm ET Public antipathy toward the police runs so deep in Russia that it would seem impossible for the reputation of those paid to protect and serve to get any...
PanARMENIAN.Net/ On November 20, 2009, hero of Karabakh liberation war Leonid Azgaldyan would celebrate his 67th birhday. In 1960, he entered Moscow Lomonosov University, Department of Physics. Later, he continued his education...
This week's lunch with the FT features Peter Aspden sitting down for some sushi and a harmless bit of obsequiousness with Evgeny Lebedev, the son of Alexander Lebedev. The conversation has some interesting points ... such as...
Two Russian scientists have been recognised for their work in uncovering platinum and palladium deposits in the Kola Peninsula, it was confirmed yesterday (19th November). The duo managed to discover cut-off grade deposits...
A charity report says the number of children separated from their families or without parents has increased to 24 million worldwide. The BBC's Richard Galpin meets an affected family in St Petersburg.
By Robert Z. Pearlman posted: 20 November 2009 WASHINGTON - The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted...
President Medvedev’s announcement that he is considering reducing the number of time zones in Russia has evoked a sense of déjà vu in Samara. Previous attempts have all failed and Medvedev would do well to think hard before...
