Nearly half of Russia’s working-age men who die are drinking themselves to the grave with almost anything they can get their hands on.
Popularity: 3% [?]
June 17, 2007
Popularity: 5% [?]
June 15, 2007Russian women are afraid to bear children. The demographic crisis has become one of the most acute problems in present-day Russia. Recent financial incentives i.e. a bonus certificate to be paid for a second child and an increased child benefit have failed to impress every Russian woman of childbearing age.
Popularity: 2% [?]
June 12, 2007Elton John, one of the most famous British pop artists, will perform his free charity show in Ukraine’s capital Kiev on June 16. The concert is aimed to support Ukrainian children suffering from HIV/AIDS. The show will last for about 2,5 hours and will take place on the central square of Kiev.
Popularity: 6% [?]
June 11, 2007Russia takes the first place in the world as far as the amount of smokers per capita is concerned, Deputy Head of the Duma’s Health and Safety Committee said Wednesday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
May 24, 2007Olga Varnavskya, an employee of dermatovenerologic clinic, issued HIV-negative certificates for everyone who was ready to pay 1500 rubles ($60) for it, Pravda.Ru reports.
Popularity: 4% [?]
May 22, 2007Reuters quotes an official in the Moscow Patriarchate as saying that Alexy II, the Orthodox Christian Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia received treatment while on holiday.
Popularity: 4% [?]
April 28, 2007A Russian teen travelled halfway around the world so U.S. doctors could remove a brain stem tumour but the risky surgery left him brain dead, The Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 12% [?]
April 20, 2007The risk of survivors of the Chernobyl accident dying early is far less than supposed, ranking about the same as exposure to air pollution or passive smoking, according to new research published on Tuesday.
Popularity: 4% [?]
April 8, 2007Russian research could be important in the fight against a possible global pandemic of bird flu, the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted a top flu official at the World Health Organization as saying on Monday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 26, 2007
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