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Russian patriarchs meet to forge stronger links The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church has convened in Moscow. It's the first time that the foreign and the Moscow-based branches of the Russian Orthodox Church have met in an assembly since their...

Middle East peace impossible without Hamas - Russian FM Russia's Foreign Minister wants Hamas to be involved in the Middle East peace process. Sergey Lavrov is in Berlin for an international conference on the situation in the Palestinian territories. Discussions are focusing...

Georgia to count cost of five days of rain The western regions of Georgia have been hit by a fifth straight day of torrential rains. Roads throughout the region have been damaged and some remote villages cut off by the swelling water levels triggered by the...

UN key to settling Nagorno-Karabakh dispute Russia and Armenia will cooperate in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia and will co-ordinate their security efforts in the Southern Caucasus. The Russian and Armenian...

Children tortured 'in the name of God' A trial of a mother who’s alleged to have tortured her children is underway in the Czech city of Brno. The alleged cruelty of 31-year-old Klara Mauerova is said to be linked to a religious cult called the “Holy...

Russians feel poor… but lazy Despite the current economic growth many Russians are convinced most of their fellow citizens live in poverty, according to a survey conducted by Russia’s Public Opinion Fund, and many say laziness is to blame.

Castle in the air: near-fatal attraction injures family of three Two children and their father were seriously injured when a bouncy castle they were playing in was blown away in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan.

Chechnya's revival Peter Lavelle, RT political commentator, first published this article on the current situation in the Chechen Republic in The Moscow Times daily.

British police probe ‘umbrella murder’ thirty years on Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov died after being stabbed in the leg with a poisoned umbrella in September 1978 at the height of the Cold War. Now, 30 years later, London's Metropolitan Police have suddenly intensified...

Media blamed for fuelling Moscow arson spree In a series of arson attacks, dozens of cars have been torched in Moscow since May. Police say copycats are behind at least some of the attacks and are blaming the media for giving people ideas on how to get make the...

Senior policeman gunned down in Dagestan A senior police official has been killed in Mahachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

Russia to invest billions into Chechen reconstruction The Russian government is allocating up to $US 5 billion in the next four years to boost the development of its North Caucasian republic of Chechnya. Ministers have discussed the new programme at a meeting as it hopes...

Four youths found guilty of burning man to death at WW2 monument Four youths have been found guilty of burning a man to death by holding him over an Eternal Flame war memorial.

22 arrested after spate of arson attacks on cars Police have detained 22 people in connection with a series of arson attacks that have swept the Russian capital. Most of the arrested are teenagers.

Flooding brings chaos to southern Russia Emergency teams are still clearing the streets after flooding hit Russia's biggest southern city on Sunday. Heavy rain battered Rostov-on-Don, submerging it under water as people tried to battle their way through gale...

Did Russian mafia kill Litvinenko? The murder of Aleksandr Litvinenko could be linked to a chain of recent arrests of alleged Russian mafia men in Spain.

‘It’s a sin!’ Unholy row over play about Georgia’s saint An unholy row has broken out in Georgia over a play about the life and martyrdom of the country’s patron saint. ‘The Life of St George’ has left the Orthodox Church fuming with what it says is sacrilege – and...

Clampdown targets fathers cheating on child support The Russian government has launched a crackdown on divorced fathers who are avoiding making payments for child support. It has been prompted by statistics which show that one in five divorced men are shortchanging their...

Rampant Russia rip apart Dutch to make Euro semi-final A brilliant 3-1 defeat of the Netherlands has taken Russia into the Euro 2008 semi-finals in the biggest game of their modern history.

New leader for pro-western opposition party One of Russia's oldest and most pro-western democratic parties, Yabloko, has elected a new chairman. Sergey Mitrokhin won the post at the fifteenth congress of the party early on Sunday.

WW2 memories unite Russia and Belarus – Medvedev Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been to Belarus to commemorate the day on which Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The city of Brest was the first to be attacked in 1941.

Russia remembers Great Patriotic War One of the bloodiest pages in the history of Russia and the former Soviet countries is being remembered today. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The four-year-long war claimed the lives of nearly 3

Moscow’s “tougher response” to Georgia over Abkhazia A fresh row has erupted between Moscow and Tbilisi over Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, with Russia accusing its neighbour of provocation – and promising a tougher response.

Russia leads 3-1 in quarter-final with Netherlands Destiny beckons for Russia's national football team as they face the biggest game in the country's modern history. The tournament’s favourites, Netherlands, are their opponents in Euro 2008 quarter-finals in Switzerland'

IAEA head warns against military attack on Iran Iran says it's ready to respond to any attack on its nuclear ambitions. Meanwhile, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohammed ElBaradei warned a military attack on Iran would lead to unpredictable...

Medvedev won’t let Georgia offend Russian peacekeepers The mistreatment of Russian peacekeepers will not be tolerated, according to Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev. He's vowed that Georgia and Russia will resolve all conflicts by diplomatic means and believes the...

Blast injures 15 in Moscow At least 15 people have been hurt in an explosion in the south-east of Moscow in what police suspect could be a grenade attack. The injured, all of them young men, are in hospital, one in a critical condition.

No food or water for Russians held captive by pirates The situation for Russian sailors on board the ship captured by pirates off Somalia's coast last month is deteriorating fast. The captain of the German-owned Lehmann Timber ship was able to contact his family, and his...

UN split over EU mission role in Kosovo The UN Security Council remains split over plans to give the European Union greater operational responsibilities in Kosovo. The proposal was made by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during a special session in New York on...

Oklahoma declares sovereignty The House of Representatives and the Senate of Oklahoma have adopted a resolution claiming sovereignty of the state.

No sex, no marriage: Italian Bishop An Italian bishop has refused to allow a man who was paralysed from the waist down in a serious car accident to marry his sweetheart. The Catholic bishop says that since the accident rendered the man incapable of...

EU marks its eastern frontier At last Lithuanians and Belarusians know where they stand. Foreign ministers from the two countries have struck a deal to officially confirm the demarcation of their border.

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