VLADIVOSTOK, May 7 (Itar-Tass) - Famous Russian traveller Fyodor Konyukhov’s rowboat Turgoyak crossing the Pacific to Australia was stopped by headwinds.

NOVOSIBIRSK, May 7 (Itar-Tass) - Forty-eight forest fires are reported on an area of 120.3 thousand hectares in Siberia on Wednesday, including 118.7 thousand hectares in Trans-Baikal Territory, th

COPENHAGEN, May 7 (Itar-Tass) - The Tolmachev sisters, Russia's participants in the Eurovision-2014 song contest, on the strength of the results of the audience and jury voting in the semifinal, ha

MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - About 2,500 Ukrainian citizens have turned to the Civic Chamber of Russia for help, the forum's deputy secretary, Vladislav Grib, said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Moscow on Wednesday with Swiss Federal President and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter to discuss the crisis in

VIENNA, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is certain that there is a way out of the Ukrainian crisis, but it can be found only on the basis of a national dialogue.

VIENNA, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Russia does not engage in the supplanting of regime or in the organization of ‘color revolutions’, particularly the ones with a brownish taint, Russian Foreign Minister

BERLIN, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Germany’s Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, visits Vienna on Tuesday to join Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ukrainian Acting Foreign Minister Andrii

MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - A missile defence system of the United States and NATO has an anti-Russian potential which will be growing if it is deployed in the future, chief of the main internation

UN, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - A conference on establishing a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East is possible this year, director of the Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament at Russia's Foreig