RIA Novosti

Russian president fetes Schwarzenegger in Moscow

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:59:15 GMT

Calling his host "a great visionary," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger heaped praise Monday on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and urged new economic partnerships with Soviet, er, Russian, businessmen during a visit to a western suburb of Moscow that is slated to become a Silicon Valley-style innovation hub.

Bronze Age civilisation discovered in Russian Caucasus

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:56:44 GMT

Traces of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilisation have been discovered in the peaks of Russia's Caucasus Mountains thanks to aerial photographs taken 40 years ago, researchers said on Monday.

Russia Is Seeking to Build Europe’s Nuclear Plants

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:53:58 GMT

The Russian nuclear industry has profited handsomely from building reactors in developing countries, including India, China and Iran. Now it is testing the prospect of becoming a major supplier to the European Union, too.

Putin’s Party Wins in Russia’s Local Elections

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:53:23 GMT

Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin’s ruling party triumphed easily in regional elections here in Siberia and elsewhere in Russia on Sunday, demonstrating that its standing has not suffered, despite several challenging months for the government.

Russia resets with U.S., sprints with China

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:50:28 GMT

The Russian diplomacy is meeting with extraordinary success in dovetailing the country's strategic partnership with China with its core national interests in the strategic, political and economic fields, despite the fact that Russia is cognisant of the great ambivalences in China's rise.

India jets order boosts ailing Russian defence industry

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:46:19 GMT

Russia's ailing defence industry has received one of its biggest boosts in years with a huge fighter jet deal with India, but much of the sector remains stuck in a Soviet-era time warp, analysts said.

Film industry recovering from recession in Russia

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:44:00 GMT

Russia's film industry is bouncing back from recession, according to a report commissioned by the European Audiovisual Observatory. Admissions grow by an average 14% per year.

Russia renews interest in Vietnam base

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:27:13 GMT

The Russian Navy has announced plans to return to the Cam Ranh Bay naval base in Vietnam eight years after it pulled out from the strategic foothold in South East Asia.

To Pacify North Caucasus, Moscow Plans to Replace Non-Russian Officials with Ethnic Russian Ones

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:24:13 GMT

Most commentators on the newly approved “Strategy for the Social-Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District out to 2025” have focused on its plan to dispatch ethnic Russians to the region and non-Russians from that region to other parts of the Russian Federation.

The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence. The World is at the Precipice of another World War

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:20:08 GMT

We see the counter-alliance to NATO: Russia, China and the so-called Central Asia Collective Security Organization. If you read about the origins World War I or World War II an attack on Iran could clearly set off World War III – remember Bush threatened it. And it could easily become nuclear.

Russia: Handle with care

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:48:44 GMT

The incentives to tighten relations with Russia are numerous and could lead to increased diplomatic support, cooperation regarding Iran and, of course, the possibility of lucrative arms contracts, such as the 12 UAVs Israel sold Russia last year. But the lessons learned from Moscow’s decision to press ahead with the sale of the antiship missiles to Syria will hopefully be taken to heart here, especially by foreign policy decision makers.

Why China takes interest in Belarus

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:46:03 GMT

What is more interesting for the great China, both economically and strategically: the immense Russia, which produces nothing but raw materials, or little Belarus, with its considerable scientific, technical, and industrial achievements?

The Algerian connection

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:43:57 GMT

Can Russia succeed where South Africa has failed? With Russia serving as Algeria’s main arms supplier, Medvedev is in a position to apply pressure. But Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria’s authoritarian leader, is no push over.

Russia Takes Active Role In Kyrgyz Parliamentary Elections

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:12:54 GMT

Despite successive regime changes on both sides, Russia has played a major role in the lives of the Kyrgyz people ever since. That has been especially noticeable during Kyrgyzstan's current parliamentary election campaign, with polls set for October 10.

Russia may offer strategic technologies

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:10:08 GMT

Russia may offer India strategic defence technologies to retain dominant position in the Indian crowded weapons market

Tokyo, Moscow lock horns in disputed islands standoff

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:04:44 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's planned visit to four disputed Pacific islands has rekindled an age-old burning debate between Japan and Russia that has failed to be amicably resolved despite numerous declarations and treaties since the end of World War II.

US venture capital industry takes second high-level trip to Russia

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:03:32 GMT

A delegation of several major venture capital investors, executives and government representatives that may include California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to Russia in order to explore investment and technology collaborations and meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and others, participants told Dow Jones VentureWire.

Russia put to the test by grain shortage

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:54:22 GMT

Yet even though the disastrous harvest and subsequent grain export ban pushed global wheat prices to their highest level for two years, analysts insist panic over food security in Russia, which became the third largest grain exporter last year, is unwarranted.

Whither Russia?

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:49:19 GMT

Russia is at a crossroads after a decade of ups and downs in its relations with the West. A lively brainstorming process has been underway in Russia on the future face of the country and Russia’s position within the international system.

Mayor ousted for corruption plots return to Moscow political fray

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:45:30 GMT

The powerful former mayor of Moscow says he plans to form a new political movement to bring democracy back to Russia, nearly one week after he was fired by President Dmitry Medvedev.

Russia’s Answer to Harvard Business School: A Break With Tradition

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:43:10 GMT

A business school created by Russia’s leading oligarchs presented diplomas to its first graduates and inaugurated a $250 million high-tech campus complex in a suburb of Moscow last month, seeking to stake out a role as the Harvard Business School equivalent for students focused on the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

Russia-Germany Nord Stream natural gas pipeline under way

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:40:57 GMT

Russia has succeeded in getting funding for the Nord Stream gas pipeline (formerly North European Gas Pipeline, NEGP), which will go under the Baltic Sea to Germany . It obtained environmental approvals from the littoral states concerned rather easily and earlier this year began to lay the pipes undersea. The deal is another indicator of ever-growing German-Russian cooperation and reorientation of German diplomacy, even as this takes place against the interests of Germany ’s EU partners.

Russia's season for summits

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:37:36 GMT

The West was destined to become an activist in the Russia-China strategic partnership and it seems that point has been reached. This is not because Russia or China is putting an anti-Western orientation on their mutual cooperation. Far from it. On the contrary, for both Russia and China enhancing ties with the United States remains and will remain for the foreseeable future a priority in foreign policy.

Russian Oil & Gas To Fuel China's Economic Expansion

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:54:18 GMT

Earlier this week, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao participated in a ceremony celebrating the completion of a new oil pipeline. Analysts predict that Russian oil and gas will play central role in China's ongoing economic expansion. The news was yet another sign of Russia's growing dominance of the global oil trade.

Turkey and Russia: Cleaning up the Mess in the Middle East

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:49:02 GMT

The neocon plan to transform the Middle East and Central Asia into a pliant client of the US empire and its only-democracy-in-the-Middle-East is now facing a very different playing field. Not only are the wars against the Palestinians, Afghans and Iraqis floundering, but they have set in motion unforeseen moves by all the regional players.