Russia's Soyuz spacecraft docks with space stationOctober 2nd, 2009 KOROLYOV - Russia's Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, a report said. The spacecraft lifted off on board a Soyuz-FG rocket Wednesday from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
Russian security forces kill four militantsSeptember 12th, 2009 MAKHACHKALA - Four militants were killed Saturday in a counter-terrorist operation on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Russias North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a police spokesman said. According to the official, the militants were suspected of involvement in Fridays murder of a deputy prosecutor in Makhachkala, as well as an attack on police in the city of Kizilyurt.
Accident shuts down Russia's largest hydroelectric plant, killing 7 and injuring 8August 17th, 2009 Russia's largest hydroelectric plant shut downMOSCOW — An accident during repair work at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant on Monday killed at least eight workers and injured 10, while 54 others were missing, investigators said. The accident shut down the Sayano-Shushinskaya power station, on the Yenisei River in southern Siberia.
Chinese robber flees straight into the arms of cops!August 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese robber, who snatched money from a man, is said to have been captured easily after he ran straight toward a police station after committing the crime. Zhang, 19, a migrant worker in the city, ran straight to the police station in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, reports the China Daily.
German zoo renames baboon called Obama after racist claimsJuly 11th, 2009 LONDON - A zoo in Germany has reportedly renamed a baby baboon from Obama to Okeke, after being accused of racism. The Dresden Zoo was said to have named the baby mandrill after the US President, while being caught up in Obama-mania.
Moscow's Leningrad railway station to get its pre-Revolutionary name back _ 18 years lateJuly 9th, 2009 Moscow's Leningrad station getting old name backMOSCOW — Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin has lost another round in the fight over Russia's history. Eighteen years after the city of St.
Plan to rename Moscow's Leningrad railway station causes ire, confusion, reflecting riftsJuly 9th, 2009 Confusion over Leningrad station reflects riftsMOSCOW — Revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin may be losing another round in the fight over Russia's history. Or maybe not.
Manmohan's family visits execution site of Russia's last tsarJune 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur, who has accompanied him to this Russian industrial city, Tuesday visited the site of the gruesome massacre of Russia's last tsar and his family that has now turned into a centre of pilgrimage. Tsar Nicholas II and his close family have been canonized and are now revered as saints.
Manmohan's family goes on trip down Russia's tsarist past (Lead)June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - A trip to the site where Russia's last tsar and his family were killed over nine decades ago and the story of the brutality of their massacre left Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur and her daughter very moved. Gursharan Kaur, who has accompanied the prime minister to this Russian industrial city, and her daughter Upinder, a historian who teaches at New Delhi's St.
Russia's Anastasia Zueva sets new world record in women's 50-meter backstrokeApril 28th, 2009 Zueva sets new 50-meter backstroke world recordMOSCOW — Anastasia Zueva has set a new world record in the women's 50-meter backstroke by clocking 27.48 seconds at the Russian summer swimming championships. The 18-year-old Zueva shaved 0.19 seconds off the mark set by Australia's Sophie Edington in March last year in Sydney.
Russian communist group want statues of Lenin's womenMarch 7th, 2009 MOSCOW - A St. Petersburg-based communist group Friday said it would raise money to build public statues of communist leader Vladimir Lenin's wife and mistress.
Russian space agency plans to build new space stationFebruary 2nd, 2009 MOSCOW - The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is considering a plan to build a new space station as the current one approaches its retirement, officials said. The new orbital station will not only inherit the role of the International Space Station (ISS) as a base for scientific experiments, but will also serve as a foundation for lunar programmes and space tours, Alexei Krasnov, director of the manned space program at Roscosmos, said.
Russia's space agency plans to build own orbital stationJanuary 30th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will propose to the government the building of a low-orbit space station to support future exploration of the Moon and Mars, an agency official has said. 'We will soon propose to our government a project to construct a low-orbit complex, which could serve as a foundation for the implementation of the lunar programme and later on the Mars programme,' Alexei Krasnov, director of manned flight programmes at Roscosmos, has told a news conference in Moscow.
Russia closes probe into murder of last tsar Nicholas IIJanuary 14th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russian investigators said Thursday they had closed their probe into the 1918 murder of the last tsar and his family, and the identification of their remains discovered in the Urals in 1991 and 2007. The Investigation Committee said the human remains discovered near Yekaterinburg, where Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, their five children and several servants were shot by Bolsheviks, were found to belong to the Romanovs, the second and last imperial dynasty which ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.
Medieval leader voted Russia's symbol, Stalin comes thirdDecember 28th, 2008 MOSCOW - Medieval prince Alexander Nevsky was chosen as Russia's symbol in a nationwide television vote, which also voted former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as the third greatest Russian historical figure. The winners in the project 'The Name of Russia' were announced on the Rossiya state TV channel late Sunday after a three-month Internet and SMS vote.
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