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November 2009 will take a special place in the history of the Russian Internet. It is the month when a Cyrillic domain zone was born - .РФ (Russian Federation). Russia became the first country that allows top-level domains in...
MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry has dismissed as groundless a recent claim by a U.S. nonproliferation expert that Moscow is helping Iran build nuclear weapons. Henry Sokolski, executive director of...
By Peter Wooding Special to ASSIST News Service MOSCOW, RUSSIA (ANS) -- Russian Ministries is appealing for help to reach their ambitious goal of distributing 50,000 gifts of hope to needy children across Russia this Christmas....
With: Natalie Shiyanova, Milan Kolik, Sean Ramsay, David Fellowes, Brian Caspe, Gordon Truefitt, Michael Diekmann, Jiri Hanc, John Mcgarrity, Eva Sitta, Igor Zolotarev, Lubos Vrnata. Curiously conceived "Victory Day" takes one...
Subterranean Rumblings Transition OnLine (TOL) by Maciej Falkowski 23 November 2009 To many outsiders, autocratic Azerbaijan looks stable. `The whole world was already struggling with the crisis, but our government still...
By Charles Clover in Moscow Gorbushka market, just outside central Moscow, does a thriving trade in any electronics good you could want: mobile phones, plasma television sets, the latest DVDs, and, if you ask to see them,...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay a working visit to Italy on the invitation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on December 3, the Kremlin said. The Russian president and Italian premier will hold a sixth...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin plans to support only soft measures to curb capital flows Toni Vorobyova and Lena Fabrichnaya MOSCOW — Reuters Published on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 7:07AM EST Russian Finance Minister Alexei...
MOSCOW, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Industrial magnate Oleg Deripaska will lose majority control of RUSAL when the indebted aluminium firm floats shares, as some of them will be bought by a state bank, Russian Finance Minister Alexei...
A new two-volume history of Russia's turbulent 20th century is being hailed inside and outside the country as a landmark contribution to the swirling debate over Russia's past and national identity. Written by 45 historians led...
