PLESETSK (Arkhangelsk region), July 27 (Itar-Tass) -- A modernizedcarrier rocket Soyuz-2, which was launched from Russia's northern Plesetsk spaceport for the first time on Saturday, put successful

NAIROBI, July 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Eight foreign oil workers, who were kidnapped earlier on Saturday, were released late in the evening on Saturday in Nigeria, military spokesman Sagir Musa said.

KRASNODAR, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - The major hail damaged about 100houses in the settlement of Guryevskaya, the Belorechensk district of the Krasnodar territory, where the air temperature reached 40

VLADIVOSTOK, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - Governor of Russia's Far-Eastern Primorsky /Maritime/ territory Sergei Darkin has done a public presentation of a strategy of the territory's social and economicd

MOSCOW, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II goes to Ukraine Saturday to take part in festive functions on the occasion of the 1,020th anniversary since the adoption of

THE HAGUE, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - Former political leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Dr Radovan Karadzic, who is charged with crimes committed in the 1990's in the course of a bloody civil war in Bosnia

PETROZAVODSK, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - Sofya Larina, a student from the Kemerovo region in southern Siberia has won the Beauty of Russia pageant.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - Second Pacific Economic Congressopens in Vladivostok Saturday.

MOSCOW, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Armed Forces begin a strategiccommand post exercise codenamed Vostok'2008 in Siberia Saturday.

GROZNY, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - An ideological campaign against the spread of ideas of terrorism and extremism will be stepped up in themosques and educational institutions in Chechnya's capital Groz