RUSSIA

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 2 hours ago
Reuters - Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has decided to run for election to the local council of a desolate Arctic region just weeks after resigning as governor. ...

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 1 hour ago
Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba's president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that RUSSIA may send nuclear bombers to the island. ...

Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 35 minutes ago
The European Tour moves to Moscow for the RUSSIA Open. ...

Source: www.chron.com --- 55 minutes ago
For President Dmitry Medvedev, who took office in May, TNK-BP may be the first big test of his energy policies. Medvedev was chairman of Gazprom for six years as the gas producer and pipeline owner grew to be the third-largest company in the world by market capitalization. ...

Source: www.ft.com --- 1 day ago
Moscow and Beijing have finalised a protocol, formally demarcating their 4,300km international border – a significant step towards friendship between the two large military powers ...

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 1 hour ago
Venezuela's government denied yesterday that President Hugo Chavez invited RUSSIA to open a military base in his country, disputing a report by RUSSIA's Interfax saying that Russian troops were welcome in the South American nation. ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 3 hours ago
An ailing Fidel Castro neither confirmed nor denied reports that RUSSIA is prepared to station nuclear bombers in Cuba. Moscow is angry about U.S. plans to build missile defense sites in Eastern Europe. ...

Source: www.popmatters.com --- 3 hours ago
¡Forward, RUSSIA! should be commended for asking questions of themselves when they could have sat pretty and cemented their position as dance-punk heroes. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 2 hours ago
Faced with a "steady increase" in injection drug use that is cited as the leading cause of the spread of HIV/AIDS in RUSSIA, a meeting of physicians and specialists was held in the country in February to discuss the use of methadone in treating injection drug users, which number between three million and six million in RUSSIA, the New York Times reports. ...

Source: www.eyefortravel.com --- 4 hours ago
Travel Distribution RUSSIA Special Strong economic environment, aggressive growth in the aviation sector, Internet penetration and the huge potential of online credit card usage are some of the characteristics, which make online travel distribution market in RUSSIA an attractive proposition in the time to come. ...

Source: www.france24.com --- 1 day ago
At least 30 hungry bears have trapped a group of geologists at their remote survey site in RUSSIA's far east after killing two of their co-workers last week, emergency officials said on Tuesday. ...

Source: www.findingdulcinea.com --- 1 hour ago
A recent visit to RUSSIA by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez sparked worried speculation about a closer, more strategic relationship between the two countries. ...

Source: www.panarmenian.net --- 2 hours ago
The Russian media’s data on weaponry purchased by Azerbaijan "doesn’t correspond to the truth," said the press office of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry. ...

Source: www.indiaenews.com --- 4 hours ago
RUSSIA's Olympic team will compete to finish in the top three at the forthcoming Beijing Games starting Aug 8, chairman of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Leonid Tyagachev has said. ...

Source: networks.org --- 1 day ago
(07:04 UTC) GLOBE : RUSSIA trumpets closer links with Venezuela's Chvez ...

Source: www.barentsobserver.com --- 3 hours ago
Russian Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko has canceled a planned meeting with Finnish officials this weekend. The meeting was intended to help ease tensions over Russian timber duties and cross-border transportation problems, the Moscow Times reports. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 2 hours ago
The Russians remain peeved that the United States plans to put a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, and they seem especially annoyed that the interceptors and radars will be installed in two former ... ...

Source: www.telegeography.com --- 16 minutes ago
Stockholm-based telecoms group TeliaSonera has reported that its consolidated net profit in the quarter ended 30 June 2008 rose by 7.8% year-on-year to SEK4.13 billion (USD685 million), from SEK3.83 billion a year earlier, on total revenues that climbed 5.7% on an annual basis to SEK25.27 billion. EBITDA in the second quarter (excluding one-off items) increased by 6.1% to SEK7.98 billion, widening the EBITDA margin slightly to 31.6% from 31.4% in Q2 2007. TeliaSonera’s growth in the most recent quarter was heavily driven by mobile operations in RUSSIA, Turkey and its Eurasia division. The Swedish former wireline monopoly’s CEO Lars Nyberg said that reducing expenses is imperative to the company’s strategy going forward to offset the slowdown in its domestic growth and a general decline in fixed line services. Since Mr Nyberg took up his post in September 2007, the group has announced 2,900 job cuts. He added in a statement: ‘The overall market trends were essentially unchanged and we reported a satisfactory set of numbers for the second quarter...For the first time in more than a year, we managed to increase our margins.’ ...

Source: www.kommersant.com --- 48 minutes ago
Washington bureaucrats aren’t particularly eager to comment on the possible return of RUSSIA’s long-distance strategic bombers to Cuba as the Kremlin’s response to stationing the U.S. missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. ...