Recasts lead, para 2, adds details in paras 3-7) MISSION CONTROL, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's space capsule carrying International Space Station crew landed 420 km (260 miles) away from the target site in northern Kazakhstan, but the crew
SEVEROURALSK, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - The workers at a Urals mine owned by Russia's aluminum giant RusAl have stopped a hunger strike they had gone on almost a week ago to demand higher wages. RusAl said Friday it has
MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - One man was injured as a homemade explosive device detonated in a garage area in Moscow's south, police said Saturday. "An unidentified explosive device went off... A male was injured and hospitalized," a police
MOSCOW, April 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's ex-nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov, sentenced to five and a half years in prison on fraud charges and released on Thursday, returned to work on Friday. The Moscow City Court released Adamov after changing
NOVO OGARYOVO, April 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will back the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in their efforts to reach a peace deal, Russia's outgoing president said on Friday. Vladimir Putin, back in Moscow after visits to Libya and Sardinia,
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, April 18 (RIA Novosti) - Excavations along the route of a pipeline being built for a vast oil and gas project on Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin have unearthed around 200 historic objects, a local historian said on
KIEV, April 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazprom has paid a total of $665 million for gas transited via Ukraine from December 2007 through March 2008, Ukraine's state gas company Naftogaz said on Friday. "Gazprom has paid Naftogaz
ROSTOV-ON-DON, April 18 (RIA Novosti) - A UAZ minivan fell into a river in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan killing at least five people, law enforcement agencies said Saturday. There were 10 people inside, including the driver. Two managed
and teen-agers, state experts of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection having carried out experiments with animals of different age. The oncoming generation is recommended to reduce communication through handsets, as their nerves might be badly injured.
Epan Systems has acquired the B2Bits Company, an IT consultant providing services to stock exchanges and brokers. A special center headed by B2Bits president has been set up at Epan, which enables the company to expand the range of services
The Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Atomic Supervision intends to review the rules and procedures of issuing licenses for use of perforation and blasting equipment for oil and gas production. According to the new rules, the Federal Service for
On April 21, the Russian News and Information Agency "Novosti" will host the press conference "Oilfield Service and Equipment. Post-Election Prospects" that will be attended by: - F.V. Lyubashevsky, president of Integra Group of Companies; - A.V. Romanikhin, president of
