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MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - The Russian mass media and communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said that the Vkontakte social network website was blacklisted by mistake. "It was a mistake resulting from a human error," a watchdog representative told ...

IZHEVSK. May 24 (Interfax) - Residents alerted Udmurtia's emergency services about seismic activity in the region on Friday morning. "Residents have alerted us about such instances," a spokesman for the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's ...

YAKUTSK. May 24 (Interfax) - A forest fire is currently burning just 800 meters from the village of Suntar in Russia's Republic of Yakutia, the regional Interior Ministry said in a press release. Fifteen policemen, Emergency Situations Ministry ...

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MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - Prominent Soviet and Russian film director Pyotr Todorovsky died at the age of 87 after a heart attack, the Ekho Moskvy radio station has reported. tm jv (Our editorial staff can be reached

WASHINGTON. May 24 (Interfax) - Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano met in Washington to discuss the possibility of forming specialized working groups that could include officials ...

MAKHACHKALA. May 23 (Interfax) - The school official who witnessed the killing of two militants in Khasavyurt has died of a heart attack, the press center for the Interior Ministry's department for Dagestan told Interfax. The incident occurred at ...

MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax) - A new document on conventional arms control in Europe, which will replace the CFE Treaty, should not only affirm indivisible security principles but also include new types of armaments acquired by European armies, Russian ...

MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax) - Directors at Kamaz (RTS: KMAZ) are recommending that 10% of last year's net profit to Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) be set aside for dividends, the truck maker said in a statement. The company could pay 487.95 ...