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Some 3,000,000 people took part in Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, the Russian capital’s police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said. Victory Day that Russia celebrates on May 9 marks the final defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Union in World War II, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. This year, the 66th anniversary […]

Our duty is to safeguard peace achieved by the victory in the 1941-45 war against Nazi Germany, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a military parade in Moscow on Monday. The military parade dedicated to the 66th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War was launched on Moscow’s Red Square at 10:00 […]

President Dmitry Medvedev suggested on Tuesday that Russia should consider introducing chemical castration as a punishment for criminals guilty of sexual offences against children. “Punishments should be as harsh as possible. The state should use all means possible, and a liberal approach here is totally unacceptable,” Medvedev said at a meeting on the development of […]

Russian news websites are morally wrong to show a video of a sexual assault on a St. Petersburg schoolboy, but there is no legal basis to demand they remove the clip, a local children’s rights official said on Tuesday. Local news agency BaltInfo said several high school pupils raped a 13-year old boy with the […]

Moscow said on Tuesday it expected Kiev to punish the Ukrainian nationalists who disrupted Victory Day celebrations in Lvov and attacked Russian diplomats. Members of the Ukrainian Svoboda (Freedom) nationalist organization on May 9 engaged in a brawl with WWII veterans, tore and burnt Soviet flags, and trod on a wreath that the Russian consul […]

A Pacific Fleet task force led by the Admiral Vinogradov destroyer has completed a friendly visit to Vietnam and is now heading for the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok. The Admiral Vinogradov destroyer, accompanied by a salvage tug and the Pechenga tanker, has paid a friendly visit to the Vietnamese port city of Da Nang […]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a 2009 nuclear cooperation agreement with Turkey that would boost energy projects between the two countries, the Kremlin said on Saturday. The deal, approved by Russia’s parliament last month, was one of several agreements struck by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on a visit to Ankara in August 2009. […]

A court in Central Russia has turned down a request to end the compulsory psychiatric treatment of the man, whose doomsday sect that spent more than six months underground waiting for the apocalypse in 2007-2008. In November 2007, 35 members of a religious sect, led by Pyotr Kuznetsov, went underground to wait for the end […]

The Russian government will allocate 120 billion rubles ($4 billion) for the modernization of regional schools over the next 2 school years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday. “We plan to allocate 60 billion rubles ($2 billion) from the federal budget in each of the next two academic school years. The federal funds will […]

That cup of coffee is extra special today. I got my sweetie with me in Ukraine. We are at the Kiev Train Station at this moment… I really like the Kiev train station. It is like home away from home and I have spent many hours waiting for trains at this station… Sveta is here […]