3 dead in brawl between Russian villages
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:26:35 -0700
MOSCOW, July 31 (UPI) -- A brawl between residents of two villages in the Russian republic of Dagestan turned deadly and left three dead and five injured, officials said. Russia - Dagestan - Government - Chechnya - North Caucasus
Russia grants more powers to KGB successor agency
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:18:19 -0700
MOSCOW - Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed...
Three dead in Dagestan brawl - report
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:31:28 -0700
Three people were killed and five wounded in a massive brawl in Russia's Caucasian republic of Dagestan, according to reports.
Boy sent home to Russia is back in orphanage
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:29:26 -0700
An attorney for an adoption agency says a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his U.S. adoptive mother has been placed back in an orphanage.
Tennessee: Returned Boy Back in Russian Orphanage
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:29:23 -0700
A lawyer for an adoption agency said a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his American adoptive mother has been placed back in an orphanage.
Russian boy in U.S. adoption case back in orphanage, attorney says
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:41:45 -0700
A Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow, Russia, by his adoptive mother in the United States has been returned to an orphanage, an attorney of the World Association for Children and Parents said Friday.
Tensions over Moscow’s Khimki forest mounting to a boiling point as Bellona and activists appeal to government and ...
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:26:12 -0700
ST. PETERSBURG – Amid worsening conditions for ecologists trying to save the Khimki forest in the Moscow region from clear cutting to make way for am $8 billion high speed toll road between the capital and St. Petersburg, Bellona has asked Vladimir Lukhin, Russia’s human rights ombudsman to step in and help sort our the loggerheads.
Anarchy In Dagestan - Islamists Gain Upper Hand In Russian Republic
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:59:43 -0700
Nowhere in Russia is the situation so explosive as in the autonomous republic of Dagestan. An ongoing Islamist insurgency has plunged the corruption-plagued region into near civil war. Some high-ranking Russian officials believe it will take years to defeat the extremists, if it can be done at all.
Attorney: Returned Russian boy back in orphanage
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:27:01 -0700
An attorney for an adoption agency says a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his American adoptive mother has been placed back in an orphanage. Russia - United States - Adoption - Moscow - Family
Lawyer: Returned Russian Boy Back in Orphanage
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:20:55 -0700
8-Year-Old Boy Sent Back to Moscow by His Adoptive Mother in Tenn. Placed Back in Orphanage
Attorney: Returned Russian boy back in orphanage
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:01:00 -0700
An attorney for an adoption agency says a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his American adoptive mother has been placed back in an orphanage.
SKP orders to inspect work of officials in fire-hit regions
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:04:59 -0700
MOSCOW, July 30 (Itar-Tass) -- The Prosecutor General’s Office Investigation Committee (SKP) ordered its regional departments to inspect the work of officials in the regions affected in the wildfires.
World datelines
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:22 -0700
Russia: Wildfires circle city
Attempted plane hijacking foiled at Moscow airport
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:55:22 -0700
A man who allegedly tried to hijack a passenger plane at Moscow's Domodedovo airport was detained on Thursday, news agencies reported. The plane on a domestic flight from Russia's North Caucasus city of Mineralniye Vody to Moscow was due to land at 3:45 p.m. Moscow time (1145 GMT).
Medvedev orders corruption investigation into Putin's Sochi Olympics
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:13:52 -0700
Russia President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an investigation into allegations that a top Kremlin official took huge bribes in connection with the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Analysts are unsure whether it's a sincere crackdown.
Russians sentenced in kidnapping plot
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:42:14 -0700
MOSCOW, July 29 (UPI) -- Two Russian men have been sentenced to jail for kidnapping homeless people and forcing them to work in a scrap metal processing plant for as long as five years. Russia - Moscow - Administrative Regions - Travel and Tourism - Lake Baikal
Russia grants more powers to KGB successor agency
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:45:23 -0700
Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President...
Russia Back In Latin American Arms Market
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:09:40 -0700
Russia's arms export agency Rosoboronexport will deliver eight helicopters to Peru, the first post-Soviet arms sale to the Latin American country.
Russia back in Latin American arms market
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:21:13 -0700
MOSCOW, July 29 (UPI) -- Russia's arms export agency Rosoboronexport will deliver eight helicopters to Peru, the first post-Soviet arms sale to the Latin American country. Peru - Latin America - Rosoboronexport - Russia - Soviet Union
Russian boy sent back by TN adoptive mom put in orphanage
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:23:15 -0700
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - An attorney for an adoption agency says a Russian boy whose American adoptive mother sent him back to Moscow has been placed back in an orphanage.
