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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Russia Herald.com http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/723971d98160d438/ en-us Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:59:14 -0500 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:59:14 -0500 30 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said Tuesday that the alliance should re-evaluate its relations with Russia without severing them. http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/431729/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:00:33 -0500 Russia Herald.com http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/431729/cs/1/ Novy Urengovy (Russia), Nov 18 (RIA Novosti) Russia and China will soon resume talks on two loans to major Russian oil companies worth $25 billion, Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko said Tuesday. http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/431598/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:00:39 -0500 Russia Herald.com http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/431598/cs/1/ Vladivostok, Nov 18 (RIA Novosti) The Russian Navy will commission the Nerpa nuclear submarine, which was involved in a fire accident killing 20 people on board recently, rather than sell or lease it to India, the chief of the General Staff told a Russian daily Tuesday. http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/431579/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:43 -0500 Russia Herald.com http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/431579/cs/1/ Dublin-listed exploration company Ovoca Gold has agreed to sell off its Ayax subsidiary, which has a 100% interest in the Goltsovoye silver deposit in Russia. Ovoca plans to sell Ayax to Russian-base... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19665148/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:10:50 -0500 RTE http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19665148/ (MENAFN) A report issued by Russia's Federal Statistics Service showed that Russian industrial production grew at the slowest annual pace in four months in October as output of buses, bricks, cement a... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666109/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:05:52 -0500 MENAFN http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666109/ GENEVA: Russian and Georgian delegates are to gather at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday in a fresh bid to tackle issues left over from their brief conflict after a previous attempt ended in... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19664737/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:59:04 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19664737/ MySpace On Saturday, 20 people died and 21 were seriously injured after an accident on the Russian submarine Nerpa. The Akula-class attack sub was undergoing sea trials in the Sea of Japan prior... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666111/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:22:20 -0500 MSNBC http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666111/ November 19, 2008 Willowton Oil had bought 70 000 tons of sunflower seed from Russia through a Swiss-based commodity trading house, Zubeir Moosa, a spokesperson for the South African edible oils produ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666112/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:11:12 -0500 Business Report http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666112/ Moscow, Nov 18 : Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has called for reinstating the direct elections of regional governors in Russia, as a more democratic method of selecting regional leaders. http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666108/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:08:34 -0500 New Kerala http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666108/ NEW YORK, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - A former Russian UN official, sentenced by a U.S. court to four years and three months in prison on money laundering charges, has left for Moscow after being hand... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666110/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:36:49 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19666110/ (RTTNews) - Anatoly Serdyukov, Russian Defense Minister, Tuesday warned Georgia that any further military build-up would have more serious consequences than the war in August. He was speaking in a n... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19665665/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:02:29 -0500 Quote.com http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19665665/ GENEVA, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - International talks on security in the Caucasus in the aftermath of August's Russia-Georgia conflict are to continue in Geneva on Wednesday. The two-day talks, co-c... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19665455/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:01:31 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19665455/ MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow prosecutors say they have warned the Russian-language edition of the Newsweek magazine for allegedly insulting Muslims. The Moscow Prosecutor's Office says the magazine pu... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19662906/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:48:09 -0500 New Jersey Online http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19662906/ SMS Demag , a company of the SMS group, Germany, has successfully commissioned an X-Melt® electric steel plant with an annual capacity of 1.0 million t of steel at the Polevskoy location for OA... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19658931/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:08:44 -0500 AZoM http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19658931/ Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that he hopes a new administration of the United States would take a more pragmatic and impartial approach toward the almost frozen relations with Mos... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19659861/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:59:36 -0500 People's Daily http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19659861/ By Ethan Wilensky-Lanford / Staff Writer The World Bank on Tuesday unveiled a grim picture of Russia's economic outlook, slashing the country's 2009 growth forecast by more than half and saying the ru... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655661/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:37:47 -0500 The Moscow Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655661/ By Maria Antonova / Staff Writer Official visits by Russian and Latin American leaders have generated some colorful moments in the past, ranging from Vladimir Putin's impromptu display of his football... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655660/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:37:46 -0500 The Moscow Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655660/ By Nadia Popova / Staff Writer Editor's note: This is the eighth in a series.A senior government official angrily called up Dominique Fache, the Russia manager for Italian utility giant Enel, to compl... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655662/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:37:49 -0500 The Moscow Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655662/ By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer European Union officials called last week's Nice summit between Russia and the European Union constructive and said talks would resume to draw up a "road map" to help Rus... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655659/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:37:45 -0500 The Moscow Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655659/ By Marina Darmaros / Special to The Moscow Times The Jack of Diamonds was a group of artists that became the main exponent of the Russian avant-garde before the Revolution, a time when nobody imagined... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655665/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:37:43 -0500 The Moscow Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655665/ A suspect twice cleared by juries on charges of organizing a 1999 apartment bombing that killed 58 people was among four Islamist militants who died in a Dagestani gun battle with police commandos, of... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655664/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:37:42 -0500 The Moscow Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655664/ Amid calls for presidential terms to be extended not to six years, but seven, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that he first thought about extending the term five years ago, and his Nov. 5 annou... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655663/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:37:40 -0500 The Moscow Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19655663/ TOKYO — A visit to Japan by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is unlikely to take place in December due to the global financial crisis, government sources said Tuesday. A Japan-China high-... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19654937/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:35:56 -0500 Japan Today http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19654937/ (11-18) 12:37 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A fire that broke out in a three-story apartment building on San Francisco's Russian Hill just before noon today has left one person dead and another injured, fire ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19648954/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:41:13 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19648954/ French and Russian newspapers have quoted Carine Clement as saying she was attacked with a syringe containing an unidentified liquid in the center of the Russian capital after being approached by two ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19649814/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:20:43 -0500 MSNBC http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19649814/ The Kremlin is grappling with a growing opposition in the military to the most sweeping overhaul of Russia's armed forces in over a generation. http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650773/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:42:13 -0500 Gadsden Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650773/ (AXcess News) Moscow - A series of constitutional changes that critics allege are meant to consolidate one-party rule and perhaps pave the way for Vladimir Putin's early return to the presidency are s... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650775/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:48 -0500 Axcess News http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650775/ The sources said the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had expected Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi to sign an agreement to procure billions of dollars worth of aircraft, main battle tanks a... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19649340/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:51:05 -0500 World Tribune http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19649340/ ANKARA, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov called on Tuesday for a resumption of dialogue with NATO, frozen after a five-day war between Russia and Georgia in Augus... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650029/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:05:47 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650029/ MOSCOW [MENL] -- Russia, in what could be the first such procurement fromthe Jewish state, has been examining the procurement of Israeli unmannedaerial vehicles. The Russian Defense Ministry said it w... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650033/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:47:36 -0500 Middle East Newsline http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650033/ war between Russia and Georgia in August, amid claims by the Kremlin that the western media now accepts Georgia was the aggressor. Georgia's ambassador to the UN, Irakli Alasania, has asked the EU to ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19649806/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:32:27 -0500 The Guardian http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19649806/ “ Russia will establish no relations with the existing regime in Georgia“. Russian President Dmitriy Medevedev said in his meeting with mass media representatives in Ijhevsk of the Urals. ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650040/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:58 -0500 ANS http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650040/ NICOSIA, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cypriot President Demetris Christofias left for Russia on Tuesday for an official visit aimedat strengthening ties with the traditional ally. In Moscow, Christofias will ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650046/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:26:11 -0500 SINA http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650046/ IZHEVSK, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday it would be wrong to change the current system of choosing regional leaders, which he described as "optimal.... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650779/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:25:36 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19650779/ By Abdiqani HassanBOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - A Saudi supertanker seized by pirates with a $100 million (66 million pound) oil cargo in the world's biggest ship hijacking reached Somalia on Tuesday, ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19644234/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:06:21 -0500 Swiss Info http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19644234/ The presentation of a new film on Russian TV channel describing the “peaceful” life in Daqliq Qarabaq region of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenian Forces for “Vesti Nedeli” (&ldqu... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645945/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:46:25 -0500 ANS http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645945/ "We should not create artificial obstacles, as it is obvious that the issue of security in the Euro-Atlantic area and for all countries present in this area is a mutual problem," Lavrov told reporte... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645308/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:41:37 -0500 Morning Star http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645308/ The world is heading toward a sharp deficit of oil production capacity and Russian companies could cut output and exports should they become unprofitable, Russia's energy minister said on Tuesday. ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645938/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:48:24 -0500 Rigzone http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645938/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Iskander tactical short-range missile systems will be delivered to the Russian military on time, a senior official said on Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Sergei Bogatinov, co... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645948/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:37:19 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645948/ MOSCOW, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Russia will not turn into a parliamentary republic, though the parliament's role will be strengthened following constitutional amendments, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tu... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645313/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:37:53 -0500 SINA http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645313/ "The events did not begin in August but several months and years ago, it was a chronicle of an announced invasion," he told a gathering of lawmakers from North Atlantic Treaty Organization member st... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645946/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:41:32 -0500 Morning Star http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645946/ — The term "non-beverage alcohols" refers to manufactured liquids that contain alcohol but are not intended for consumption, such as medicinal tinctures, aftershave, alcohol-based anti-... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19644211/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:04:00 -0500 Science Daily http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19644211/ B oundary pedestrian transition in “Samur” customs check point is still closed on Russian-Azerbaijani border. Chief of “Samur” customs check point Huseyn Mansumov said ANS PRES... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645944/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:46:33 -0500 ANS http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645944/ IZHEVSK, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that he hoped the new U.S. administration could look at bilateral ties "at a different angle and more pragmatic... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645947/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:37:22 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645947/ The Russian business television channel RBC TV has been deemed the best news channel in Europe and awarded the top prize from the international Hot Bird TV Awards 2008 in the category for News TV chan... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645942/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:03:22 -0500 RBC http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645942/ considers the European Union, rather than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to be its chief interlocutor on pan-European security, Moscow's envoy to the military alliance said Tuesday. http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645310/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:41:28 -0500 Morning Star http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645310/ ANKARA, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian defense minister warned on Tuesday that Georgia's military buildup and drive to join NATO could cause a conflict worse than the five-day war over So... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645940/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:14:21 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645940/ KHIMKI, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian reporter who is in a coma after a savage beating told the authorities a week ago he had received threats to his life because of his investigative reporting, a frie... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645282/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:22:06 -0500 Reuters http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645282/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is not satisfied with U.S. political guarantees on missile defense, the foreign minister said Tuesday after talks with his Portuguese counterpart. "A... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645288/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:14:19 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645288/ Iran is ready to set up a joint firm with Russia and Qatar but has no plans to export Iranian gas to Qatari plants so that it could be turned into liquefied natural gas (LNG), IRNA news agency reporte... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645163/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:48:24 -0500 Rigzone http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645163/ SEOUL, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Seoul is still continuing to cooperate with authorities in North Korea's capital despite recent frosty relations between the South and the North, Seoul's assistant m... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645211/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:37:14 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645211/ NEW DELHI, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - The cost of a Russian-Indian project to build a titanium facility in east India could double over rising expenses, a source in the Indian metals industry said on... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645318/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:37:10 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645318/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - The construction of the Nord Stream pipeline to pump Russian natural gas to Germany is important to the European Union, the head of the delegation of the European C... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645319/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:37:09 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645319/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) Russia, Europe can discuss Caucasus problems calmly / Russia unconvincing as key global player / World financial system may get a new look / Gazprom to produce gas i... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645951/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:37:08 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19645951/ IZHEVSK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday he sees new opportunities for improving strained relations with the United States once President-elect Barack Obama takes ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640665/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:03:35 -0500 Breitbart http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640665/ IZHEVSK, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday the government could increase the current rescue package of 5 trillion rubles ($182 billion) against the backdrop... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19639320/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:24 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19639320/ Valencia, Spain - Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said Tuesday that the alliance should re-evaluate its relations with Russia without severin... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640622/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:52:33 -0500 Earth Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640622/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Jury selection was completed on Tuesday for the trial in a Moscow military district court of three men over the October 2006 murder of Russian investigative journal... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641276/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:28:32 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641276/ TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Both Georgia and Russia seriously violated international law during their war in August, rights group Amnesty International charged Tuesday. Its sweeping 69-page report cites e... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640669/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:56:15 -0500 Find Law http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640669/ United States by calling on the US to abandon its drive for a European-based missile defence system, and calling on Russia to cancel deployment of ballistic missiles to the Polish border. Unfortunatel... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640400/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:54:38 -0500 The Guardian http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640400/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Talks on a new partnership agreement between Russia and the European Union will resume in early December, the head of the European Commission's Moscow office sa... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640674/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:10 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640674/ MOSCOW: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will in December repeat his presidential custom of holding a live nationwide phone-in, an official said on Tuesday, reinforcing his image as Russia's true lead... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640628/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:45:40 -0500 Times of India http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640628/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow Region police officer who admitted repeatedly raping his step-daughter over a period of eight years has been freed "as the girl's neighbors have n... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19639777/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:07 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19639777/ HANOI, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Five people have been killed in a tropical storm that hit the southern Vietnamese coast, a flood control spokesman said on Tuesday. Storm Noul (meaning Red Sky in Ko... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640798/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:09 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640798/ MADRID, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is ready to normalize relations with Russia, but is concerned that there could be an escalation in tensions in the region, a Georgian deputy prime minister ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640652/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:28:29 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640652/ A high-ranking Estonian defence official has been charged with treason, accused of passing sensitive NATO information to the Russian government for the past several years. Herman Simm, 61, was arrest... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641275/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:41:16 -0500 CBC News http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641275/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's industrial output increased 1.6% year-on-year in October and 5% in January-October 2008, the country's top statistics body said on Tuesday. Russia's Econom... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640675/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:04 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640675/ Valencia, Spain - Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said Tuesday that the alliance should re-evaluate its relations with Russia without severin... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640625/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:52:27 -0500 Earth Times http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640625/ Barack Obama prepares to move into the White House. He does not know what challenges he will have to face as the new president of the United States, although he does realize that the USA has lost its ... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640672/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:27 -0500 Pravda http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640672/ (AFP)--The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will support efforts by former communist nations to join the military alliance despite opposition from http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641277/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:57:16 -0500 Morning Star http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641277/ said Tuesday it would beef up security rules after the arrest of a former senior defense official who is suspected of having leaked secrets to http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640668/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:57:11 -0500 Morning Star http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19640668/ MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Vasily Aleksanyan, a terminally ill former Yukos executive now in custody on embezzlement charges, has undergone an operation to have his spleen removed, a Moscow r... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641280/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:06 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641280/ ROSTOV-ON-DON, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - The conductor of a train from Moscow to the central Russian city of Volgograd has returned 8 million rubles ($291,000) to a passenger who forgot the money in... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641281/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:02 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641281/ TBILISI, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - A Georgian delegation set to attend talks in Geneva will press for an international peacekeeping presence in its breakaway regions, the Foreign Ministry said on Tu... http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641282/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:01 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.russiaherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/723971d98160d438/id/19641282/