Russian Mistral Warship Build on Track - Rogozin

LE BOURGET, June 20 (RIA Novosti) Russia has manufactured several for Syria as part of a deal signed in 2011, but no final decision on delivery has yet been made, a Russian official source said on Thursday. An unspecified number of the aircraft ...

ST. PETERSBURG, June 20 (RIA Novosti) The Russian governments plans to weaken the ruble in a bid to stimulate faltering economic growth is unlikely to yield results, Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said on Thursday. Finance ...

MOSCOW, June 20 (RIA Novosti) The culture agency in the authoritarian ex-Soviet state Uzbekistan has banned several pop singers and bands from performing live due to meaningless songs that failed to praise the Motherland, a statement on the agencys ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R, facing the camera) speaks to his government. REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin BEIJING: China and Russia on Thursday blasted a US report that downgraded their countries for failing to make greater ...

CHITA, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - A steel box with eight kilograms (17.6 lbs) of gold was stolen from gold prospectors in East Siberias Transbaikal Territory, the regional police department said in a statement on Thursday. A group of unidentified ...

WASHINGTON, June 19 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) Nearly a dozen long-lost, rarely seen Soviet films and scores of screenplays that were never produced about the persecution of Jews during World War II have been revived to offer decades-old ...

WASHINGTON, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - In a move that opens the door to sanctions, the US Department of State named Russia and China among the world's worst countries in terms of forced labor and sex trafficking in its 2013 Trafficking in Persons ...

MOSCOW, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - About 21 percent of Russians are seriously worried about environmental issues in their country, according to a survey published by an independent Russian pollster on Wednesday. The Levada Center pollster said the ...

MOSCOW, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - The birth rate in Russia grew 30 percent since 2007, Russian Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin said on Wednesday. In his interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station, the minister attributed the ...