BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- China hopes to strengthen tourism cooperation with Russia to bring the total number of mutual tourists to 5 million by 2015, Vice Premier Wang Qishan said while meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladislav Surkov on Fr...
BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- China and Russia on Friday started the Tourism Year of Russia, a move designated to foster exchanges and friendship between the two countries and their peoples. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan and his Russian counterpar...
Emergency Aid Being Sent to Stranded Chadians Emergency aid is being sent this week to about one thousand people mostly children stranded in a remote area of Chad. The International Organization for Migration says the Chadians fled violence in neighb...
Poll Watchers Hope to Cut Fraud in Russia Vote Row upon row of Russians take lecture notes in a university classroom on a Saturday afternoon. They are not poor students. They are just 50 faces from an army of 200,000 Russians volunteering to work as...
Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet Collapse In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has made enormous economic progress. Incomes have increased 10 times. But bookending these changes are demonstrations - in 1991 against com...
Russia says it is ready to commit more than $10 billion to the International Monetary Fund to help support the struggling eurozone economy. President Dmitry Medvedev made the pledge Thursday in Brussels during the biannual EU-Russia summit. We will a...
After USSR, Russia Rode Roller Coaster for 20 Years When the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia, the biggest member republic, embarked on 20 years of unsteady independence. It was a Christmas gift that anti-communists had prayed for, for seven decades. M...
Protesters came out across the worlds largest country to demand clean elections and to say what, only one week ago, was unsayable. Russia Without Putin was the favorite chant of thousands of demonstrators who marched within earshot of the Kremlin in...
MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket was launched on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan with a Chinese communications satellite AsiaSat-7, according to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos. Roscosmos' live...
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe and China's Yinghuo-1 satellite were launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Zenit-2SB rocket at 00:16 am Moscow time Wednesday (2016 GMT Tuesday). The main aim of...
