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A fire has broken out in the Moscow Ostankino TV-tower, according to Moskovski Komsomolets . The famous tower, a scene of the 1993 shootout ...

Between 1 and 30 June this year, the Blog-Carnival Russian media will take place. Initiated by the Swiss blog Krusenstern , bloggers with ...

We will cleanse Russia of all non-Russians! This was the message relayed in print on British Burton menswear store's new T-shirt, The ...

A new Swedish-German expert group on the 1994 M/S Estonia catastrophe does not exclude an explosion as cause of the shipwreck. Such a conclu...

Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. It is a day to commemorate the victims and sacrifices of the insan...

As relations between Russia and the West deteriorate, a growing tendency to misperceive Russian motives is discerned. Russia is not a monoli...

Poland and Ukraine today won the bid to host the UEFA EURO 2012 Soccer Championship. The decision by the UEFA Executive Committee came as a ...

In July 2010, some 2,000 researchers from all over the world will gather in Stockholm for the VIII ICCEES World Congress . For a week, issue...

Was Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko right to call for parliamentary elections? This is a question that in recent days has been the sub...

Chicken race was a perilous game among youngsters in the US during the 1950s, said to originate from East European immigrants. The game mod...