Russia's K-152 Nerpa nuclear-powered attack submarine has been handed over to the Indian Navy, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Monday.

In line with the contract worth over $900 million, the P

A pilot of a UTair Boeing 757 flying from Bangkok to Novosibirsk in Russia's Siberia region died as the plane was flying over China, officials said.

Sergei Golev, 44, sustained a heart attack in the

Russia warned on Wednesday that a military strike on Iran would be a ‘catastrophe’ with the severest consequences that risked inflaming existing tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

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A Russian aircraft carrier which is being refurbished for the Indian Navy will begin sea trials in May for the first time in two decades and is to be handed over to India by December 2012, a shipyard

New sanctions against Iran will be perceived by the world community as an attempt at changing the regime in the Islamic republic, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gannady Gatilov said on Friday.

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A villager in provincial Russia has caused a national scandal after finding 79 Kalashnikov assault rifles in crates that he bought to use as firewood, Russian media reported on Friday.

A truck driver

The body of late North Korean 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il is to be embalmed and put on display at a palace in the capital Pyongyang, state media said.

North Korean state news agency KCNA said memorial

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will not take part in TV debates with rival candidates ahead of the March 4 presidential elections, his spokesman said on Thursday.

Putin has never come face-to-

North Koreans who did not mourn the death of 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il can face at least six months in prison, a South Korean media outlet said on Wednesday.

And those who took part in the often hyst

ussian rescuers scoured the sewer system in the central city of Bryansk on Monday in search for an 18-month baby who tumbled through the ground with his mother when the pavement suddenly collapsed.

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