MOSCOW, March 28 (Itar-Tass) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has proposed on Friday holding an all-nation referendum instead of early presidential elections and asked to be excluded from hi

MOSCOW, March 28 (Itar-Tass) - The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has demanded that Latvia safeguards the rights of stateless persons and linguistic minorities, Russia's Foreign Ministry says.

UNITED NATIONS, March 28 (Itar-Tass) - The UN Security Council will consider response measures against North Korea (DPRK) for the launches of ballistic missiles it carried out this week in violatio

MOSCOW, March 28 (Itar-Tass) - The counterproductive initiative with the resolution of the UN General Assembly on Ukraine would only impede the efforts aimed at the settlement of the internal polit

HONG KONG (XIANGGANG), March 28 (Itar-Tass) - Net debt of Russia’s RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium company, last year decreased by 720 million U.S. dollars or by 6.6 percent.

WASHINGTON, March 28 (Itar-Tass) - The World Bank (WB) has decided to allocate $526 million for a project to develop the export of electric power from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to Afghanistan and

MOSCOW, March 27 (Itar-Tass) - The Central Bank of Russia is making plans for creating a national payment system in the country.

MOSCOW, March 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will ban the import of refrigerated beef from Australia as of March 31 over the use of a growth stimulant, trenbolone, says Alexei Alexeyenko, an aide to the h

DUSHANBE, March 27 (Itar-Tass) - Tajikistan’s national power company has restricted electricity supplies to residential homes in regions to four hours per day.

MOSCOW, March 27 (Itar-Tass) - Sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union on Russia after Crimea’s accession have not scared Russian nationals, suggests an opinion poll by the VT