Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 15% [?]
December 6, 2006
North Korea will renounce its nuclear weapons if the U.S. withdraws nuclear arsenals from South Korea and other countries in the region, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Russia’s armed forces successfully test-launched an interceptor missile on Tuesday, news reports said.
Popularity: 3% [?]
December 5, 2006
North Korea has offered Russia exclusive rights to its natural uranium deposits in exchange for support at the stalled talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions, a newspaper is quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
Popularity: 9% [?]
December 4, 2006Police seized more than 400,000 units of weapons and ammunition in Russia during the first ten months of 2006, a senior police official said Tuesday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 28, 2006Indonesia and Russia will sign an agreement on military cooperation during Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s visit to Russia on November 29.
Popularity: 23% [?]
November 23, 2006Russian officials today denied a report of an accident at a chemical weapons reprocessing site.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Veteran agents of Soviet and Russian foreign intelligence said Thursday they were deeply saddened by the death of Markus Wolf, East Germany’s long-serving spy chief, who died at the age of 83, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
Popularity: 3% [?]
November 10, 2006Russia’s former Defense Minister, Marshal Igor Sergeyev died in Moscow on Friday, spokesman for the club of military leaders Viktor Seryk told Itar-Tass.
“Sergeyev died of a serious blood disease at the Burdenko hospital,” Seryk said.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Russia’s Central Muslim Board Chairman Talgat Tajuddin has urged Palestinian and Israeli secular leaders and clergy to sign a 40-year peace deal, with Russian religious leaders posing as guarantors, Interfax news agency reports.
Popularity: 6% [?]
November 7, 2006
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