MOSCOW, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - Valery Gergiyev dedicates Wednesday's
concert of the 10th Moscow Easter Festival to the victims of the recent

NEW YORK, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has been awarded the Country of
the Year title at the current international conference on offshore

VOLGOGRAD, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - A session of the Marine Board under the
government of the Russian Federation is to be held in Astrakhan on

MOSCOW, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - The Russia-NATO Council (RNC) at the level
of the Chiefs of the General Staff (CGS) meets in Brussels on Wednesday to

LONDON, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - This year five Middle Eastern and North
African countries -- Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, and Libya -- will enter

KAZAN, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - The construction of an international chess
academy (ICA) building begins here on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, May 3 (Itar-Tass) - Russian government approved Energy
Minister Sergei Shmatko chairman of the Russian part of the Russian-Afghan

ASTANA, May 3 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry described
the U.S. military operation to kill Osama bin Laden as an important

ASTANA, May 3 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev,
addressing on Tuesday the fourth Astana economic forum, suggested the

OSH, May 3 (Itar-Tass) - CIS secret services should expand their
possibilities to stave off terror acts as well as to be on the alert to