INNSBRUCK, Austria, June 11 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian national soccer team have lost their opening match at the 2008 European soccer championship against Spain, 1:4 (0:2).

Moscow, June 11 (Itar-Tass) - The 10th jubilee World Congress of the Russian-Language Press opens at the World Trade Center here on Wednesday.

HELSINKI, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Only a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict is possible, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb said after a meeting of the co

KAZAN, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - An international investment conference of the Islamic Development Bank opens in Tatarstan's capital Kazan on Tuesday.

VILNIUS, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus begins a state visit to Slovakia on Tuesday.

DONETSK, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Teams of mine-rescue men continued searching for twelve miners who were reported missing in the pits of the Karl Marx coalmine in the East-Ukrainian Donetsk region af

DUSHANBE, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon and deputy CEO of the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, Valery Golubev are due to have a meeting here Tuesday, in the course

TBILISI, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Georgia does not object to the restoration of the Abkhazian section of the Georgian Railway, but this process should be effectuated under international control, Presi

HELSINKI, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Relations between the European Union and Russia, as well as the situation in and around Kosovo and South Caucasus will be the central issues at Tuesday's talks betwe

WARSAW, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Current status of Russian-Polish relations will come into the focal point of the talks between Sergei Mironov, the speaker of the upper house of Russian parliament, a