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A Eurostar train is stuck in the Channel...

A Eurostar train is stuck in the Channel Tunnel, a spokesman said on Thursday.

A female Siberian tiger which received a...

A female Siberian tiger which received a tracking collar from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last year has been found after going missing for three months.

A leader of Russia"s national anti-doping...

A leader of Russia"s national anti-doping agency RusADA said there will be no doping-related scandals at the upcoming February 12-28 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

An emergencies ministry plane carrying a...

An emergencies ministry plane carrying a Russian rescue team to quake-hit Haiti took off from an airfield near Moscow on Thursday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

An unusual space body with parameters similar...

An unusual space body with parameters similar to a man-made object will approach Earth on Wednesday at a distance about three times less than the moon"s orbit.

A Russian mobile hospital and its medical...

A Russian mobile hospital and its medical personnel will provide medical assistance to the victims of the devastating Haiti quake for another 10 days, the emergencies ministry said.

BERLIN, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - The European...

BERLIN, March 31 (RIA Novosti) - The European Union and Ukraine must work with Russia in modernizing the Ukrainian natural gas pipeline network, the German chancellor said on Tuesday.

Doctors took out scissors from a 60-year-old...

Doctors took out scissors from a 60-year-old Indian man"s stomach, which a doctor had forgotten to remove after an operation two years ago, Indian media reported on Saturday.

Five people were killed and at least 12...

Five people were killed and at least 12 injured after an explosion on Sunday at an under-construction power plant in the U.S. state of Connecticut, CNN reported citing local officials.

Following is an official statement by RIA Novosti issued on Thursday:

Fugitive Russian businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev...

Fugitive Russian businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev, the former head of mid-sized oil firm RussNeft, has been reelected to the company"s board of directors.

Gazprom Neft, the oil producing arm of Russian...

Gazprom Neft, the oil producing arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, said on Wednesday its U.S. GAAP net profit decreased 35% year-on-year in 2009 to $3.01 billion.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Tehran will enrich its own uranium to a level of 20% for its research reactor.

MOSCOW, April 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...

MOSCOW, April 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian cargo ship launched from the Baikonur space center Monday is expected to dock automatically with the world"s sole civilian space station Wednesday evening, a Mission Control official said.

MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - Suspected...

MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - Suspected pirates seized by a Russian warship off the Somali coast earlier this week could be tried in Russia, media said on Thursday.

MOSCOW, August 12 (RIA Novosti) - A Proton-M...

MOSCOW, August 12 (RIA Novosti) - A Proton-M rocket successfully orbited on Wednesday a Chinese telecommunications satellite, the Russian Federal Space Agency said.

MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...

MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian Cosmos 3M booster carrying Germany's SAR-Lupe satellite was launched from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia Tuesday, a spokesman for the Space Forces said.

MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...

MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian warship spilled about 20-30 tons of oil while refueling off the coast of Ireland in mid-February, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.

MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti) - Hearings...

MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti) - Hearings in the civil court case against McDonalds" for a burn caused by a cup of coffee began in the Butyrsky court of Moscow, lawyer Maxim Dombrovitsky, who represents the interests of injured Olga Kuznetsova, said. The company is sued for 100,000 rubles ($1=28.12R) According to Mr. Dombrovitsky, the representatives of McDonalds" intend to bring 14 witnesses to the next court session, "who can confirm that medical assistance was allegedly offered to Ms. Kuznetsova." The defense also intends to present a number of additional proofs at the hearing, he continued. According to Mr. Dombrovitsky, his client is seeking compensation for first and second degree burns caused by the spilled coffee. Ms. Kuznetsova is also demanding 500 rubles for medical treatment. The plaintiff is also demanding that a penalty of 100,000 rubles be imposed on the restaurant as compensation for moral damage. Mr. Dombrovitsky said that in the McDonalds" in the town of Khimki, near Moscow, his client overturned a tray after being hit by the entrance door and spilled hot coffee on herself. The respondents have not pleaded guilty in this action, since the cups with coffee bear a warning inscription saying that coffee is hot, Mr. Dombrovitsky added. The McDonalds" report, received by RIA Novosti, contains a similar statement. The report also makes it clear that the company "regrets that a burn was received" but "does not see any faulty actions by the McDonalds staff which caused the damage." There are world precedents of actions filed against McDonalds. The most famous trial, named The Case of McDonalds" Coffee, became widely publicized after in February 1992, 79-year-old Stella Liebek from the state of New Mexico in the U.S. got a third degree burn from hot coffee. She sued McDonalds, and the court ruled that the latter pay $2.9 million to her. However, this sum was later reduced to $640,000.

MOSCOW, June 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, June 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Black Sea Fleet will not take part in any joint naval exercises involving Georgian warships, a senior Russian military official said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, June 1 (RIA Novosti) - Rubin"s 1-0...

MOSCOW, June 1 (RIA Novosti) - Rubin"s 1-0 defeat to CSKA Moscow in the final of the Russian Cup on Sunday was sweetened slightly for the Kazan side by the failure of their rivals to overtake them at the top of the Premier League.

MOSCOW, March 3 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian...

MOSCOW, March 3 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian rocket filled with garbage from the International Space Station was deorbited and sunk in the Pacific at 4:53 p.m. Moscow time [1:53 GMT], a spokesman for Mission Control said.

MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian international...

MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian international Andrei Arshavin has been voted Arsenal fans" player of the month for the second time in a row. In April, Arshavin scored four times in a thrilling 4-4 draw with Liverpool at Anfield. He also scored in a 4-1 win at Wigan and, as the club"s website noted, "continued to rack up the assists for his team-mates, setting up goals against Wigan, Middlesbrough and Portsmouth." Arshavin got 70.4% of the vote, with Cesc Fabergas coming a distant second with 9.3%. The former Zenit St. Petersburg player signed for the club at the start of February after protracted and torturous transfer negotiations, but did not make his debut until toward the end of that month. His agent recently denied saying that other senior Arsenal players were "jealous" of the Russian"s popularity.

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed on Thursday to consider cutting the number of time zones in the country, which spans 11 time zones.

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti) - More...

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti) - More than 50 people were detained in an unauthorized protest in downtown Moscow on Saturday, according to police, but protestors said the number was higher and police were too tough.

MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - An unidentified...

MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - An unidentified gunman killed a well-known Russian Orthodox priest and wounded another clergyman in a church in southern Moscow.

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) —...

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) — India and Russia will extend their strategic and military partnership when they sign a new military cooperation agreement in December, an Indian daily said on Saturday.

MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...

MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government may introduce measures to oblige companies to invest in energy efficiency and other technology projects, a Kremlin aide said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s Dmitry Donskoy strategic nuclear-powered submarine returned on Wednesday from a short sea test run to prepare for upcoming test launches of the troubled Bulava missile.

MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - RIA Novosti...

MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - RIA Novosti on Friday strongly denied allegations it had teamed up with a Western PR company "to justify Russia"s great power ambitions and improve the image of Joseph Stalin."

MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Tottenham...

MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Tottenham Hotspur turned down two offers from Spartak Moscow for striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, the Russian club"s manager has revealed.

MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be useful in the research of processes taking place on the Sun, Russian physicists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research said.

NASA has given the final go-ahead for the...

NASA has given the final go-ahead for the launch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled for April 5, NASA said on its website on Saturday.

Nord Stream AG and two German environmental...

Nord Stream AG and two German environmental organizations have agreed on measures to protect the Baltic Sea, the gas pipeline operator said Friday.

Nord Stream has secured 3.9 billion euros...

Nord Stream has secured 3.9 billion euros ($5.3 billion) in financing allowing it to start building a pipeline to pump Russian natural gas to Europe under the Baltic Sea, The Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has constructed...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has constructed a secret bunker in preparation for foreign invasion or even a civil unrest in the country, a British newspaper has reported.

North Korea on Thursday moved to reopen...

North Korea on Thursday moved to reopen talks with the South on resuming cross-border tours to a scenic mountain area and a border town, which were halted in 2008.

Norway"s Emil Hegle Svendsen won gold in...

Norway"s Emil Hegle Svendsen won gold in the Biathlon men"s 20 km individual at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada"s Vancouver.

On Christmas Eve, the oil arm of Russian...

On Christmas Eve, the oil arm of Russian energy giant, Gazprom Neft, initialed a contract with the Iraqi government to develop the Badra oilfield in the south of the country. On December 29, Russia"s second-largest crude producer by output, LUKoil, will sign a framework agreement with the Iraqi Oil Ministry on the development of Iraq"s largest oilfield, West Qurna 2.

Pakistan"s president signed a bill to increase...

Pakistan"s president signed a bill to increase punishment for harassment of women at workplace, national television reported on Saturday.

RIA Novosti chief editor Svetlana Mironyuk"s...

RIA Novosti chief editor Svetlana Mironyuk"s comment to gazeta.ru online edition

RIA Novosti, the Ekho Moskvy radio station...

RIA Novosti, the Ekho Moskvy radio station and Izvestia newspaper have launched a new historical investigation project, headlined "Attention, History."

Russia and France have not yet agreed on...

Russia and France have not yet agreed on the purchase of a French helicopter carrier for the Russian Navy, a Russian deputy defense minister said on Wednesday.

Russia has provided U.S. investigators with...

Russia has provided U.S. investigators with data on Nazi death camps which could lead to the prosecution of alleged WWII war criminals, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said Monday.

Russia is planning to strengthen its positions...

Russia is planning to strengthen its positions as a key supplier of weaponry in the Asia-Pacific region by seeking new customers at a major arms show in Malaysia, state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has said.

Russia may set up a free economic zone worth...

Russia may set up a free economic zone worth $3 billion in India intended to involve investors from third countries, the deputy chief of Russia"s federal property agency said in an interview with the Russian government daily.

Russian experts warned on Tuesday that the...

Russian experts warned on Tuesday that the redenomination of North Korea"s currency will do little to help the reclusive communist state boost its economy.

Russian figure skaters Oksana Domnina and...

Russian figure skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin won bronze in the ice dance competition at the Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday visited a Russian bobsledder who has been in a Munich hospital since receiving serious injuries in a training incident in Germany in late November.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday he was not alarmed by increasing U.S. military presence in quake-hit Haiti.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Russian...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Russian medalists of the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games in the Moscow Kremlin on Friday to personally award them state prizes and decorations.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alfyorov on his 80th birthday, the government press service said on Monday.

Russia on Thursday put a new military satellite...

Russia on Thursday put a new military satellite into orbit, a spokesman for the Space Forces said.

Russia"s Firdaus Kabirov, piloting the legendary...

Russia"s Firdaus Kabirov, piloting the legendary Kamaz Team truck, has finished the ninth leg of the 2010 Dakar Rally in Chile in first place, some five minutes ahead of his countryman and teammate Vladimir Chagin.

Russia"s largest private crude producer...

Russia"s largest private crude producer LUKoil said on Wednesday it hoped to return to its Iran project under more favorable economic conditions.

Russia will not protest against the results...

Russia will not protest against the results judges gave Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, the Russian sport minister said.

Sejm Marshal Bronislaw Komorowski has set...

Sejm Marshal Bronislaw Komorowski has set June 20 as the date for the early presidential election, which will determine the successor to President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash on April 10. Had he survived, Kaczynski would have faced reelection in the fall. The new president will most likely be Komorowski himself, who was nominated as the presidential candidate of the center-right Civil Platform party on March 28.