MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will do everything in its power to prevent a military conflict breaking out between Georgia and its breakaway republic of South Ossetia, the foreign minister said on Friday. South Ossetia has accused Georgia

Recasts headline, adds Pogosyan's projections for military exports in paras 8-9) MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Sukhoi aircraft manufacturer said on Friday it plans to equalize the share of civilian and military aviation in its production portfolio by

SEVERODVINSK, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called Friday for a major technological overhaul in the oil and gas sector, as well as more exploration to find new strategic deposits. "It is obvious that Russia's oil

MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - Three international adoption agencies, including one that failed to inform Russia of the death of a baby in the U.S. this week, have been banned from operating in Russia, the country's adoption authorities said

Adds club's response in paras 6, 7) MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - British soccer club Manchester United, winners of the May 21 Champions League final in Moscow, still owe the city transport service $240,000, the service said on Friday.

New international flight Vladivostok - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski - Anchorage opened.VLADIVOSTOK, July 10, vladivostoktimes.com "Vladivostok Avia" Company started making a new international regular flight Vladivostok - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski - Anchorage.The solemn ceremony of opening the flight was held at the Anchorage Airport on

The musicians are to give two concerts in the Primorye Philharmonic Society.VLADIVOSTOK, July 9, vladivostoktimes.com "Long Island", the Youth Symphony Orchestra from the USA conducted by Martin DRAIVITZ, arrived in Vladivostok on July 10; RIA PrimaMedia was informed in the

The goal of the festival is to find young, talented, prospect performers.VLADIVOSTOK, July 11, vladivostoktimes.com Elimination stages of Open regional festival of humor and variety "Moscow - Khabarovsk - Transit" and "Moscow - Vladivostok - Transit" will be held in

There is no state expert report and the project documentation was not approved but the construction works were carried out.VLADIVOSTOK, July 9, vladivostoktimes.com The Primorsky Territory Department of Municipal Engineering made an appeal to the Primorsky Territory Administration to cancel

BEIJING, June 11 (RIA Novosti) - Progress being made at six-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear problem raises expectations of an advance in the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, a Russian deputy foreign minister said Friday. "Naturally, there is progress on

MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - British soccer club Manchester United, winners of the May 21 Champions League final in Moscow, still owe the city transport service $240,000, the service said on Friday. Pyotr Ivanov, the head of Mosgortrans, told

Today, July 8, the bicycle race "Kriterium" will take place in Kyzyl at 11:00 in Lenin Street. The bicyclists participating in the race "The Sayan Ring" are now in Tuva. They were met by the leaders of the Tuvan department

Today, the bicycle race "Sayan Ring" will pass through the Kyzyl-Chadan route. Yesterday, the race "Kriterium" took place on the main square of Kyzyl, the capital of the republic. Two veterans of bicycle racing, Anatoliy Khramlyuk and Andrei Semagin, achieved

MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Peoples Democratic Union, an opposition party led by former-premier Mikhail Kasyanov, will hold its fourth party congress in the Moscow Region on Friday. During the two-day conference the PDU, which has branches

GVARDEISKY (Kazakhstan), July 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Kazakhstan are to sign a three-year agreement on joint military drills in the near future, the Russian defense minister said on Friday. "Within the next few weeks, I believe we will

MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - A new spy row looks set to break out between Moscow and London after Russia apparently accused a British diplomat of espionage. A number of Russian media sources claimed late on Thursday that the