No alternative to South Stream gas pipeline - Hungarian premier
BRUSSELS, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said there is no alternative to the South Stream gas pipeline.
Russia by 2020 to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 75% of 1990 level
MOSCOW, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russia by 2020 plans to cut the emission of greenhouse gases to 75% of the 1990 level, RF Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said in Moscow on Thursday at the open
Russian lawmakers want to impose criminal liability for GMO-related activities
MOSCOW, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russian lawmakers want to equate GMO-related activities that may harm human health or even cause death to terrorist acts and impose criminal liability on producers, sel
Crimean ports of Feodosia, Yevpatoria to be halted
SIMFEROPOL, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Crimean ports of Feodosia and Yevpatoria located within the boundaries of these cities will be halted and the Crimean cities of Simferopol and Kerch will be
Russia’s Sollers demonstrates over 20% decrease in car sales in January-April 2014
MOSCOW, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s automotive group Sollers, which sells such car brands as UAZ, SsangYong and ISUZU, demonstrated a 20.3 percent decrease in car sales in January-April 2014 to 2
Kyrgyz law enforcers, Gazprom Neft Asia launch joint anti-terrorist drills
BISHKEK, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Command and staff anti-terrorist war games began in the city of Kant situated in Chuy Region of the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan on Thursday.
Europe hardly able to quit Russian oil - expert
MOSCOW, May 14 (Itar-Tass) - Europe has little chance of abandoning Russian oil, Deputy Vice-President of Trasneft oil transportation company Igor Katsal told a Russian oil transportation magazine.
Contractors to bid for new Tretyakov Gallery at June auction
MOSCOW, May 14 (Itar-Tass) - An online auction to build a new home for central Moscow's famed Tretyakov Gallery will take place on June 6, says the state procurements website.
Putin offers condolences to Turkey leadership over coalmine tragedy
MOSCOW, May 14 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin offered condolences to Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the tragedy breaking out at a coal
Russian Pacific Fleet warships set for joint naval drills with China
VLADIVOSTOK, May 14 (Itar-Tass) - Warships from Russia's Pacific Fleet, led by a missile cruiser, the Varyag, are set to leave off the country’s Far East coast on Wednesday for joint naval drills w
