MOSCOW -- Russia's emergencies ministry says forest fires in the country's south have killed four people. Forest fires plagued much of Russia during this summer's unusual wave of withering heat and...

There was an old-fashioned fight at the U.S. Open on Thursday but not the one tournament officials wanted to see. Instead of happening on the court, the scuffle broke out in the upper deck, high...

Hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the Volgograd region At least four people have died in a new outbreak of wildfires in Russia. In the south of the country fire swept through villages and...

MOSCOW, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Russia will be ready to invest its reserves in Canadian dollars in several weeks' time, and is still considering the possibility of buying Australian dollars, a central...

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade added to gains Friday, a day after Russia extended its ban on wheat exports until late 2011. December wheat futures were up 8.75...

MOSCOW - Russia's Gazprom has clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to control gas produced by former Soviet republics. Gazprom and the State Oil and Gas Company of Azerbaijan...

Page 1 of 2 By M K Bhadrakumar The reset of the relationship of the United States with Russia is being put to the test for the first time. Kyrgyzstan poses a tough challenge: can the reset really...

By John Helmer MOSCOW - Oleg Deripaska, chief executive of Rusal, the Russian aluminum monopoly, is preparing a series of presentations to institutional investors next week in Boston and New York,...

People fear food shortages are real, but officials say panic buying has pushed up prices There is fear in drought-stricken Russia where the price of some essential food products soared 30% in August,...

FSK UES is going to place common stocks from Sep. 3, the company informed. The raised funds will be invested in the realization of the projects. The decision to increase the share capital through...

FSCM revoked the license of AG Capital Management Company due to the regular violation of the legislation in force by the latter, as it was...

FSCM permitted OGK-1 to place common stocks in the volume of 19bn (no more than 25%) abroad, as it was informed. Besides, 7.232bn common stocks can circulate in line with a permission (25% of the...

WikiLeaks has published a new portion of previously classified military documents. This time, the controversial website has exposed the memo produced by the CIA's Red Cell think tank, which...

At least 127 people have been confirmed dead, 76 others injured and 2,000 missing as of 4pm on Sunday 8 August 2010 in landslides triggered by torrential rains in Zhouqu County, Gannan Tibetan...

SURBAKTI (Reuters) - An Indonesian volcano that lay dormant for 400 years erupted yet on Friday, shooting a mushroomed-shape plume of smoke 3 km (2 miles) into the air and prompting the second...

THREE STATIONS By Martin Cruz Smith Simon & Schuster. 243 pp. $25.99 For years, Martin Cruz Smith has written about Russia as a vivid hell on earth: gray, dim, meaningless, inhuman, inscrutable,...

FIVE people died in southern Russia after new forest fires broke out, a regional official told news agencies on Friday. 'According to our data, the bodies of five people were found in the fire. But...

Sein Waldbrand-Krisenmanagement brachte ihm heftige Kritik ein, also haben PR-Strategen Wladimir Putin eine Imagekampagne verordnet. Jüngster Coup: Russlands Premier kutschierte im knallgelben...

There was an old-fashioned fight at the US Open on Thursday but not the one tournament officials wanted to see. Instead of happening on the court, the scuffle broke out in the upper deck, high above...

Five-time champion Roger Federer floored Germany's Andreas Beck in straight sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 to enter the US Open third round while two leading names--sixth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko of Russia and...

Russia has opened its section of a crude oil pipeline from eastern Siberia to China, a major step in expanding energy co-operation between the neighbouring powers. The 1,000-kilometre pipeline will...

Turkey's Omer Asik jumps to score against China during their World Championship preliminary round basketball game in Ankara. China slumped to a crushing 87-40 defeat to Turkey in their final group...

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke out angrily Thursday against the arrest of one of his closest aides this summer on corruption charges, saying that the detention was conducted in a manner...

(FT) The announcement by Vladimir Putin came as the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation called an emergency meeting to discuss the wheat shortage, and riots in Mozambique left seven dead. The...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has extended a ban on grain exports deep into next year. Putin said Thursday that Russia would consider lifting the ban only after the 2011 harvest. He said he...

New York - Maria Sharapova gave further indications on Thursday that she is close to being back to her best after an injury-blighted 2009 as she stormed into the third round of the US Open. The...

Forest and bush fires have flared up again in southern Russia, killing five people and threatening to spread to neighbouring regions. Strong winds have stoked fires to cause widespread damage in 20...

Twenty-five people were killed in a shoot-out between security forces and suspected drug criminals in northern Mexico on Thursday, a military spokesman said, dpa reported. The fighting occurred near...

AFP/File â?? A procession walks into the synagogue for a ceremony to ordain rabbis Moshe Baumel and Shlomo Afanasev â?¦ LEIPZIG, Germany (AFP) â?? Judaism is making a comeback in Germany 65 years...

Iran is hosting rallies on Quds Day today in various cities across the country to support the Palestinian fight against the Zionist regime, the Fars news agency reported today. The protesters are...

State media have generated an image of engagement and compassion, and the Prime Minister may succeed in using the event to secure even more...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would not lift its temporary ban on grain exports until after next year's harvest. "I believe it's necessary to note that we will...

TGK-2 is going to place commercial papers of BO-1 series in the volume of 5bn rub. Sep. 21, the company informed. The papers will be placed at the fixed price and the 1st coupon rate. The issue...

George Clooney, awarded an Emmy for his humanitarian work, had a relaxing day: Friends, including John Krasinski came to his house to shoot some hoops before the show, Clooney said...

Yuri Zhirkov could be set to leave Chelsea, after Spartak Moscow boss Valeri Karpin admitted he is keen to bring the Russia international back to his...

have confirmed they will make a move for Chelsea’s Yuri Zhirkov in the winter. Spartak attempted to bring the 27-year old former Zenit St Petersburg man back to Russia in the summer transfer...

Joint Engineering Plants (OMZ) covered the 8th coupon on the 5th issue of the bonds which required 97.230mln rub., the company informed. 1.5mln bonds of 1ths rub. par were released and placed...

Sep. 2 TGK-6 placed the primary issue of the bonds in the volume of 5bn rub., the company informed. Through the open offering 5mln bonds of 1ths rub. par were placed on MICEX. The offer should be...

Russians' sense of material well-being is even higher than before the global economic crisis struck two years ago, poll results released Thursday said, as the country returns to growth. The number of...

Baker & McKenzie, the global law firm, announces the promotion of Sergei Sitnikov to counsel in its Moscow office. Sergei Sitnikov specializes in climate change and energy efficiency, corporate law...

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said he was ready to pay ten million rubles ($326,000) for true information about the location of militants who attacked his home village in late August, RIA Novosti...

BEIJING China and Russia have agreed to expand nuclear power cooperation in seven areas, including building floating power plants, exploring uranium mines, eliminating old plants and developing...

Russian Premier Vladimir Putin has received a glowing accolade by one of the USA’s most fashionable writers. Dubbed "Russia’s Superman" the article calls Vladimir Putin "The face...

The first video released of the 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean copper mine shows the men stripped to the waist and appearing slim but healthy, arm-in-arm, singing the national anthem and yelling...

Ancient coins excavated in Moscow have raised doubts about the true age of the Russian capital, which celebrates its 863rd birthday at the weekend, a leading Russian archaeologist said on...

Fires driven by high winds destroyed nearly 500 buildings in the Volgograd and Saratov provinces, including 342 homes, Emergencies Ministry spokewoman Irina Andriyanova told the ITAR-Tass news...

Petrobras is shaping up more like Gazprom than Exxon Mobil. By overpaying for 5 billion barrels of reserves, the Brazilian state-controlled oil group is transferring up to $17 billion of value to the...

Maria Sharapova has kept alive her hopes of a second US Open crown, four years after her first, with an impressive 6-1, 6-2 win over Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic. It was a far more...

Thursday's session the Valdai Discussion Club meeting focused on whether Russia should search for closer ties with European or Asian countries. The 7th Valdai Club Meeting, an expert forum for...