SOCHI, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - A man and a 14-year-old adolescent died as a result of a blast in a high-rise apartment building in the city's Blinovo neighbourhood in Adler District on Wednesday, at a

BEIJING, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - The government of Mongolia is to hold an emergency meeting in Ulan Bator on Wednesday following the imposition of a state of emergency last night after mass unrest tha

ANKARA, July 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sergei Lavrov meets with the Turkish leadership here on Wednesday to

TOKYO, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - A Group of Eight (G-8) youth forum begins its work on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - President Dmitry Medvedev of the Russian Federation (RF) is to attend a session of the Council of Legislators here on Wednesday to discuss matters concerning legislativ

ASHGABAT, July 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Turkmenistan is back to the Gregorian names of months and the Hijri names of days. The names were valid all through the Soviet period of the Turkmen history.

BISHKEK, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - Bishkek values the high level of

TASHKENT, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - Uzbekistan has begun laying its own
stretch of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline. The construction begins at the settlement of Saet in the Bukhara region.

BILISI, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - Participants in the GUAM summit, an
organization that comprises Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan ad Moldova, will discuss development of cooperation.

BAKU, July 1 (Itar-Tass) - The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and