Russia tackles mortality 'crisis'
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Russian ministers meet to tackle the problem of falling life expectancy, especially among men.
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President Putin  faces growing questions over the school siege as more families prepare to bury their dead.
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MONDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Global experts on child health are meeting in New York City on Monday to discuss an ongoing tragedy: the fact that 10.5 million children under the age of five die each year.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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Russia is to invest more than $5bn extra in its security services to help combat terrorism. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who announced the move, said the fight against terror would be a top budget priority in 2005.
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[World News]: Moscow, Oct 27 : Three senior Russian officials have been charged with negligence in connection with last month&#39;s Beslan school crisis that left at least 350 people, mostly children, dead.
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Make a baby. Win a car. Don't be surprised if the streets are empty and curtains drawn in this central Russian region Wednesday as residents take up an offer by the regional governor to help stem Russia's demographic crisis.
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The health of Russian ex-PM Yegor Gaidar - who has a mystery illness - has improved, a spokesman says.
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Russia's MPs are urged to consider a cheap "people's vodka" to reduce high death tolls caused by fake alcohol.
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The global credit crisis and  volatility across developed financial markets could yet hurt  Russia and hinder long-term investment, Finance Minister Alexei  Kudrin said late on Saturday.
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MOSCOW, Mar 7 (IPS) - Russia is losing one in ten people in its active   population to drugs, a leading medical researcher told IPS.
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Russia on Thursday observed a day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a mysterious double air disaster, which some fear could have been a terrorist attack ahead of a key election in rebel Chechnya.
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BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer offered his resignation in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left at least 350 people dead.    Families were beginning the first of what will be a long and wrenching series of funerals - with the death toll still unsure and liable to rise...
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PEREDELKINO, Russia -- The unpaved, unlit roads are clogged with traffic. Getting to and from work in the center of Moscow is a 90-minute crawl each way. The schools are lousy. There are no stores within walking distance. Local health-care facilities are primitive.
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MOSCOW, Jun 3 (IPS) - Russia's HIV infection rate continues to rise  -- most notably in the heterosexual and non-drug-using  populations -- despite steady increases in funds to fight the  disease. Experts and medical researchers say dramatic changes in  sexual attitudes and behaviour are essential if the trend is to  be reversed.
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Tensions between Britain and Russia have been aggravated by the poisoning death of a former Russian spy in London &#151; an issue that could strain sensitive negotiations on issues as diverse as energy, NATO expansion, and the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea.
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PRESIDENT PUTIN faced the most serious foreign policy crisis of his five-year rule last night after the Kremlin s efforts to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine were left in tatters.