More Chemical Weapons Scrapped in Russia
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The first section of a plant to scrap 6,900 tons of chemical weapons was commissioned Friday in the Russian settlement of Maradykovo.  Itar-Tass reported the weapons had been stored in military depots since 1953.
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Whatever the agenda was for Thursday&#39;s regular, semiannual meeting between Russia and the European Union, it has been superseded by events.
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MOSCOW  - Russian officials declared Friday that a terrorist act downed one of the two planes in this week's near simultaneous crashes after the wreckage revealed traces of a high explosive used in past attacks blamed on Chechen separatists.
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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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British scientists probing the death of Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday that two more people had been contaminated with the same radioactive poison that killed the former Russian spy.
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British scientists probing the death of  Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday that two more people had  been contaminated with the same radioactive poison that killed  the former Russian spy.
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Moscow says its anti-terrorism agents have foiled more than 500 terror attacks so far this year, Itar-Tass reported Friday. Nikolai Patrushev, the nation&#39;s Federal Security
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Toxic chemicals spewed from Russian rocket launches in Kazakhstan are responsible for higher illness levels among children living in polluted villages nearby, according to a report published in a British science journal.
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Text of interview with Viktor Kholstov by Sergey Ptichkin, on 14 June; place not given: "Chemicals without weapons: Second stage in destroying military chemical agents complete; process continues", in Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on 14 June.
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MOSCOW - In the aftermath of a wave of terror attacks, President Vladimir Putin yesterday announced fundamental political changes that will further concentrate power in the Kremlin and erode Russia&#39;s fragile democracy.
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New measures would end direct election of governors in Russia's 89 regions.
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The two planes that crashed with the loss of 90 lives in Russia last week were both brought down by explosions in twin terrorist attacks, Russian officials said.
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Russia said on Saturday  its offer to the United States of joint use of a radar it  controls in Azerbaijan made a planned American missile shield  in central Europe unnecessary.
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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia is developing a new type of nuclear missile system unlike those held by other countries, news agencies reported.
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Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday annulled an agreement with Ukraine on using Soviet-built military radars, citing Kiev's bid to join NATO.
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The FSB (Russia&#39;s security service and ex KGB) have confirmed that explosives have been located on the second crashed Russian jet.
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Chechnya's Kremlin-backed government on Thursday dismissed as a bluff a report on a Web site linked to separatist rebels that top leaders of the insurgency have called for a unilateral cease-fire in February.