Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Electricity suppliers across the country are cracking down as the number of delinquent private and corporate customers surges, as the dilapidated industry is mired in debt linked to unpaid consumer bi...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
YEKATERINBURG, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian drug police have seized a total of 6.5 kg (14.3 lbs) of heroin in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, a police statement said on Tuesday. The first 5.5 ...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
YEKATERINBURG, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian drug police have seized a total of 6.5 kg (14.3 lbs) of heroin in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, a police statement said on Tuesday.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Political relations between Britain and Russia may still be in the deep freeze, but when it comes to culture the countries appear not to have noticed anything amiss and are enjoying a rare boom. ...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
In the days before last week's G20 summit, Russia quietly reached out to the governments of China, India and Brazil to coordinate a meeting on the fringes of the main event. It was one of many recent signals that the four nations are emerging as vital players in the global economy.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
London, Nov 15 (RIA Novosti) Russia and Britain should resume regular intergovernmental contacts to normalise thier relations that were strained over the past two years, a junior Russian minister has said.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Federal Security Service agents and police officers have seized more than 8 kilograms of heroin from a Tajik national in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, a ...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Federal Security Service agents and police officers have seized more than 8 kilograms of heroin from a Tajik national in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, a local law enforcement source said on Friday.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
YEKATERINBURG, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - Police in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg said on Thursday they had detained a tramp who threatened to blow up the city's train station in order to be...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
YEKATERINBURG, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - Police in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg said on Thursday they had detained a tramp who threatened to blow up the city's train station in order to be sent to jail, where they have "good food."
Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Additional excavations could be carried out in the Urals area where the remains of the family of Russia's last tsar Nicholas II were found, a local archeologist said on Monday. The remains were discovered near Yekaterinburg in 1991. "We plan to begin the excavations in June next year. We earlier thought we could start this fall, but the work was postponed due to lack of funding," Sergei Pogorelov
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
YEKATERINBURG, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Additional excavations could be carried out in the Urals area where the remains of the family of Russia's last tsar Nicholas II were found, a local archeologi...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Nicholas II, who abdicated in March 1917, was arrested along with his family by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. The tsar, his wife Alexandra, and their children - Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Alexei, and Anastasia - along as several servants, were executed by a firing squad in a basement of a house in Yekaterinburg on July 16, 1918.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
YEKATERINBURG, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Four people have died and one person has been injured after a helicopter crashed near the capital of Russia's Volga Republic of Tatarstan, the regional em...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
YEKATERINBURG, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Four people have died and one person has been injured after a helicopter crashed near the capital of Russia's Volga Republic of Tatarstan, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday.
