LIMASSOL, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - A third festival of Cyprian-Russian friendship has opened in Cyprus.

ST.PETERSBURG, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - Alexander Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, said that Russia would sign an inter-governmental agreement on the South Stream project

ST. PETERSBURG, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - The World Bank will draw up its vision of strategy for the city's development in the next 20-30 years and will submit it to the government of St.

ST.PETERSBURG, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will continue fundamental research in finding ways to save resources and increase its energy efficiency on the basis of breakthrough solutions aimed at a

ALMATY, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The Kazakh unified power system (KEGOC) has attracted 400 million dollars from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for upgrading electric power

ASHGABAT, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Turkmenistan is intensifying its participation in CIS affairs as a CIS associated member, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said on the eve of an informal

ASHGABAT, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The international exhibition "Search for and prospecting of oil fields, extraction, refining of oil and petrochemistry" has opened in Ashgabat on Friday under the sl

BEIJING, June 6 (Itar-Tass) - The effort of Russian rescuers to overcome the consequences of the destructive Sichuan earthquake "was a demonstration of great humanism and heartfelt sentiments towar

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KALININGRAD, June 6 (Itar-Tass) - A fire that occurred aboard acommercial ship at a repair dockyard of the Russian Navy located in the town of Baltiysk in Russia's Baltic exclave region of Kalining