UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - The U.N. General Assembly has decided against putting on its agenda the issue of the Holodomor (famine) in Ukraine.

ALMATY, July 11 (Itar-Tass) -- The Eurasian Development Bank (EADB) begins the second stage of investing in the enlargement of the Ekibastuz state district power plant-2 located in the Pavlodar Reg

GVARDEISKY SETTLEMENT (Kazakhstan), July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Kazakhstan held an active stage of the joint military exercise codenamed "Cooperation-2008" in southern Kazakhstan under the com

GVARDEISKY SETTLEMENT (Kazakhstan), July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Kazakhstan will shortly sign a 3-year protocol on joint exercises of the armed forces of the two countries, Russian Defence Mini

KIEV, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - The ruling coalition in the Ukrainian parliament comprising the Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko (BYT) and OurUkraine-Popular Self-Defence Bloc (NU-NS) should dissolve itself, b

NAZRAN, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Three policemen have been injured as fire was opened on the house of the chief of the local district police department, the Investigation department of the Russian Pro

KRASNODAR, July 11 (Itar-Tass) -- During Thursday's meeting with Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Tatyana Yevsikova, Austrian businessmen have offered to use their systems for the generat

KIEV, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - The fulfilment of the state programme for informing the Ukrainian public about issues of the country's Euro Atlantic integration for 2004-2007 has actually failed, head

KOROLEV (Moscow region), July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russian cosmonauts have fulfilled the task of their first extravehicular activity - the removal of a pyrobolt from the lock linking the descent module

MOSCOW, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - The prices on the world oil and natural gas markets and lowering of the tax burden on oil industry workers will be discussed on Friday at a meeting that Russian Prime