On December 24, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the Interior Ministry development.
Experts in the Earth's climate have predicted that 2010 would be the hottest year in history. Their predictions were confirmed. Th...
The reform of Russia's Armed Forces began in October 2008. In fact, it provides for the reduction of the total strength down to 1 ...
Every day in Russia, thousands of people use the services of air carriers. The largest Russian company Aeroflot serves 305 flights...
Before the Revolution, high rank officials (civil servants) were usually called dignitaries (unofficially). With the elimination o...
S-300 is an air defence missile weapon system. The serial production began in 1975. The test run of the system ended in 1978…
Iran happened to get into the focus of the international community once again in 2006. The Iranian scientists have successfully la...
Grain prices in recent years have been growing around the world, which is indicated by the most recent to date information of the ...
Natural gas produced in Russia seems once again to be moving from the level of vital fuel to the level of instrument of pressure. ...
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will be held from 7 to 23 February 2014. The new capital of the Olympics was chosen during the 1...
Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is the Russian equivalent of the American GPS and the European Galileo system...
The International Space Station (ISS) is a manned orbital station, used as a multifunctional space research complex.
Google is the first in popularity in the world of search engines, generating more than 40 billion queries per month.
Twitter is the most popular microblogging system that lets users send short text notes using a web interface, SMS, instant messagi...
Taking into account the illegal trafficking of alcohol-containing products, an average Russian may consume about 18 liters of alco...
In May, the first cases of Russians infected with polio became known. The reason was probably the deterioration of the polio situa...
Abkhazia declared its independence after the war with Georgia in 1992-1993. The Supreme Council of the Republic of South Ossetia (...
On August 30, at about 1p.m., a 'Defence' movement activist and two journalists of Novaya Gazeta were detained in Triumfalnaya Squ...
Terrorism is a policy based on the systematic use of terror. There is no generally accepted legal definition of this concept in th...
The first explosion occurred at 4:20, the second - at 6:00 am Moscow time. Later, several other explosive devices were found in th...
Since the beginning of 2011, there has been civil unrest in Libya. Hundreds have been killed and injured in the clashes. The weste...
March 11, 2011, at 07:46 a.m. MSK, an earthquake of magnitude 8.9 on the Richter scale hit Japan. The earthquake shocks triggered ...
At about 8 a.m., a Citroen car heading north moved out of its most left lane on Leninski Avenue to the lane of the oncoming traffi...
As a result of the riots, 81 people died and more than 1500 were injured. On April 7, 2010, the opposition stormed the Government ...
The Heads of the Moscow State University didn’t appreciate Putin’s saucy congratulation
Blast at Domodedovo airport in Moscow
Migrants from Caucasus, Central Asia ‘killing’ Russia
French President Nicolas Sarkozy to drown in blood information of his election campaign funded by Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi
Europe tired of immigrants
How much does it cost to fly into space today?
Kamchatka volcano gets hazardous to aircraft
