Although there are many handicraft centers in Russia, only one town can be called its capital. About five hundred kilometers to the east of Moscow, the town of Semenov is renowned for producing khokhloma --- a very special style of Russian wood paint...
俄罗斯总理视察新战车武器展 MOSCOW, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev inspected new combat vehicles Thursday at the Ninth Russia Arms Expo-2013 (RAE), according to the state press service. Medvedev got a sneak pr...
A meteorite bursting through the atmosphere over Russia injuring hundreds of folks on the ground. It happened overnight in the fringe of Siberia, sending shock to residents into a state of panic. ABC's Current Rania filed this report just moments ago...
失踪的俄罗斯直升机与地面恢复联系 MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Contact with a missing helicopter has been resumed in central Russia, local emergency authorities said Saturday. Earlier in the day, local media reported that an Mi-8 helic...
Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev is backing a campaign to crack down on smoking in Russia, the world's second biggest tobacco market after China. In a message on his video blog, he warns that one in three Russians are hooked on cigarettes and...
NICOSIA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia and Cyprus signed an agreement restructuring a 2.5-billion-euro (3.3-billion-U.S. dollar) loan, the Cypriot government said in a statement on Thursday. The statement said the restructuring provides for the repayme...
MOSCOW, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Moscow guarantees that the conclusions of its expertise conducted over use of chemical weapons in Syria are correct, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday. We guarantee that the trials were taken by the exp...
MOSCOW, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A big fire broke out in a mental hospital in Russia's Moscow region early Friday, killing at least 38 people, local authorities said. We have a list of 38 people who have died and been identified, a source in the hospital...
MOSCOW, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of a shooting spree in the western Russian city of Belgorod has reached six, local authorities said Monday. In a parkway in the city downtown, an unidentified man went on a shooting spree. Five people were...
MOSCOW, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Russia will vote against a new draft U.N. resolution on Syria, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday. The document, prepared by a number of countries and to be voted soon at the U.N. General Assembly, is obviously biased and...
