DUSHANBE, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - Tajik Foreign Minister KhamrokhonZarifi on Tuesday begins his visit to Iran to discuss political, economic, scientific and cultural cooperation.

BEIJING, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet during his August 8-9 visit to China with Chinese President Hu Jintao and State Council Premier Wen Jiabao, Russian ch

BEIJING, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - The launch of an energy dialoguebetween Russia and China means that bilateral cooperation entered a new stage of development, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu J

ULAN UDE, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - The barge with the Mir-1 and Mir-2manned deepwater submergence vehicles has arrived at the dive area near the deepest point of Lake Baikal, an official at the headqu

ULAN UDE, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - The deep-submergence manned vehicles Mir-1 and Mir-2 begin the exploration of Lake Baikal on Tuesday.

SOCHI, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - Viktor Kolodyazhny, president of the OlympStroj state-run corporation, meets with members of the publicorganisations of this health-resort city on Tuesday, an official

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - An international forum on the problems of Sakhalin's ethnic Koreans opens here on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - The Integration Commission of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus are to discuss Tuesday a package of documents aimed at forming a Customs Union (CU), a Russian government

SOCHI, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - An enlarged conference on matters concerning the designing and construction of motor road and seasideinfrastructure facilities of the venue of the 2014 Olympic Games is

MOSCOW, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to tour Tuesday one of the oldest enterprises of Russia's nuclear power industry in the town of Elektrostal near Moscow -- the Elemash