Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Moscow will supply Palestinians with fifty Russian-made armored vehicles within days. “We have sent the Palestinians 50 armored vehicles, they have arrived in Jordan, and we hope that they will arrive here in the next few days,” Lavrov told reporters in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The... 

Moscow: In one of the biggest show of military might since the collapse of USSR, Russia mobilised 20,000 troops and state-of-the-art weapons in a drill, with President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday asserting that his country is a “great” naval power capable of defending its interests. Medvedev watched the impressive drills of the Russian Navy as part of the strategic Vostok-2010 (Orient-2010)... 

Oil floats on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico around a work boat at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico June 2, 2010. His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf of... 

“President” of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko Arguments by the Belarusian ruler are surprising as usual: how can we owe to Russia, if we fought together in 1941? Alyaksandr Lukashenka called today to show the Russian leadership a Belarusian-Russian film about the Brest Fortress to remind about the unity of the two peoples, Interfax news agency reports. “The film has made a storm of impressions... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced today that they are in new talks with Iran on construction of additional nuclear power plants in the nation, and that they may still deliver the S-300 Missile Defense System to Iran, though no date was given for this delivery. The comments came on the heels of a State Department statement praising Russia for not delivering the S-300 yet, though... 

Investigators opened a criminal case on Sunday in connection with an armed attack on a police patrol car on Saturday in the Primorie territory, which resulted in one of the two traffic police officers sent to the hospital with a critical wound. The second one was not injured, the representative of the regional police department told RIA News. “An armed attack on a police vehicle with two... 

Putin and Erdogan At news conference with Turkish counterpart, Russian PM says deadly incident which took place in international waters ‘unacceptable’. Russia’s prime minister has condemned Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in a major victory for Turkey. Turkey, which is hosting a 22-nation security summit, is seeking international condemnation for the May 31 raid... 

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Six volunteers will today be locked up together in a windowless, mock spaceship for 520 days. The ‘astronauts’ will be trapped inside the capsule for a simulated flight to Mars, and are expected to live and work as if they are on the 43-million mile journey for real. The all-male crew will not endure weightlessness, but from today they will follow a harsh regimen of experiments and exercise. The... 

Although most polls show that the American public is in favor of offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration is ready to ban it. Although most polls show that the American public is in favor of offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration is ready to ban it. Meanwhile, according to an editorial in the Washington Times on March 18, 2010, Russian will be erecting oil derricks very close... 

Russian warships Flagships of three Russian fleets have united in Russia’s Far East for the large-scale naval exercises in the Sea of Japan in June, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Wednesday. The flagship of the Black Sea fleet, the Moskva missile cruiser, arrived at a naval base near Vladivostok on Wednesday and teamed up with the flagship of the Northern Fleet, the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered... 

Two unidentified men threw a grenade into a store in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, injuring two people. “The men opened the door to the store, threw an explosive device inside and ran away,” said Vyacheslav Stepchenko, spokesman for the St. Petersburg police. Stepchenko said that the police were still investigating whether the device was a grenade or some other kind of explosive. The store, which... 

Africans creating problems in Russia The police of Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod broke up a massive fight between local residents and African students of the city’s State Architecture and Construction University on May 18. The fight took place in the Pushkin Park, near the dormitory. Three police squads set the fighters apart and detained most active and aggressive individuals. S everal other smaller... 

A MiG-29 fighter jet performs a maneuver as the Russian national flag flies in the foreground, during the MAKS-2009 international air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, August 22, 2009. Russia is to supply Syria with warplanes, defense apparatuses and military vehicles in a move that would irk Israel and the United States. Head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Military Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriyev... 

Some Russians hold fond memories of the late dictator. Tomorrow, in their annual Victory Day observances, citizens of the former Soviet Union mark the 65th anniversary of the end of their four-year war with Nazi Germany and its allies. A recent Russian source calculates that the loss of lives on the Soviet side was more than 35 million. According to Soviet and today’s Russian leaders, the Soviet...