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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2182 world World - Russia en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:13:09 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2182 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us ap/20091107/eu_russia_us AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:13:09 GMT AP - Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/russiaukrainepoliticsdiplomacy afp/20091107/russiaukrainepoliticsdiplomacy AFP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:43:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/russiaukrainepoliticsdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257619344557-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=iS_FwfneGpAtStzacN.oRw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) speaks during an interview with German journalists at the Barvikha presidential residence outside Moscow. Medvedev said Saturday that his "Russophobe" Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko was the sole reason for the decline in relations between the two countries.(AFP/POOL/Mikhail Klimentyev)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that his "Russophobe" Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko was the sole reason for the decline in relations between the two countries.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/russiaukrainepoliticsdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257619344557-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=iS_FwfneGpAtStzacN.oRw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) speaks during an interview with German journalists at the Barvikha presidential residence outside Moscow. Medvedev said Saturday that his "Russophobe" Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko was the sole reason for the decline in relations between the two countries.(AFP/POOL/Mikhail Klimentyev)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_mideast_afp/russianuclearpoliticsiran afp/20091107/russianuclearpoliticsiran AFP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:53:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_mideast_afp/russianuclearpoliticsiran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257605594194-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=lUx5yirFrPHew8mTqs6b4Q--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, seen here has warned that new sanctions against Iran cannot be excluded if there is no movement forward in the standoff over its nuclear drive.(AFP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)" border="0" /></a>AFP - New sanctions against Iran cannot be excluded if there is no movement forward in the standoff over its nuclear drive, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in comments released by the Kremlin on Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_mideast_afp/russianuclearpoliticsiran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257605594194-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=lUx5yirFrPHew8mTqs6b4Q--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, seen here has warned that new sanctions against Iran cannot be excluded if there is no movement forward in the standoff over its nuclear drive.(AFP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/wl_nm/us_russia_communists_medvedev nm/20091107/us_russia_communists_medvedev Reuters world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:36:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/wl_nm/us_russia_communists_medvedev"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r1012689537.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=yPgAFEvFAbKOrXEkxfESkA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev speaks with German journalists at the Gorki residence outside Moscow, November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Russia's communist party denounced powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while cautiously praising President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday as a man who had brought 'certain hopes' to the country.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/wl_nm/us_russia_communists_medvedev"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r1012689537.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=yPgAFEvFAbKOrXEkxfESkA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev speaks with German journalists at the Gorki residence outside Moscow, November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/wl_nm/us_russia_medvedev_iran nm/20091107/us_russia_medvedev_iran Reuters world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:31:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/wl_nm/us_russia_medvedev_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r3507563531.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=mKy4WZQslRtWSlGeVRZPKg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting with members of the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's parliament, in Moscow's Kremlin, November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Misha Japaridze/Pool" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sanctions against Iran should not be ruled out if it fails to agree to restrictions on its nuclear program, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told German weekly magazine Der Spiegel in an interview.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/wl_nm/us_russia_medvedev_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r3507563531.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=mKy4WZQslRtWSlGeVRZPKg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting with members of the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's parliament, in Moscow's Kremlin, November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Misha Japaridze/Pool" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_iran ap/20091107/eu_russia_iran AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:46:04 GMT AP - Russia could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program, President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/russiadefenceaccident2ndlead afp/20091107/russiadefenceaccident2ndlead AFP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:05:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/russiadefenceaccident2ndlead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257591524503-1-0.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=IT4B_AAWP4gKJMpdzImZrw--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Map locating the Tatarski Strait that divides Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin from the mainland, where a Russian military plane has crashed, leaving all 11 crew members missing, presumed dead.(AFP Graphics)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A Russian military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia's Far East region, leaving all 11 crew members missing and presumed dead, officials said on Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/russiadefenceaccident2ndlead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257591524503-1-0.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=IT4B_AAWP4gKJMpdzImZrw--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="photo" title="Map locating the Tatarski Strait that divides Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin from the mainland, where a Russian military plane has crashed, leaving all 11 crew members missing, presumed dead.(AFP Graphics)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/wl_nm/us_russia_crash nm/20091107/us_russia_crash Reuters world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:42:22 GMT Reuters - A Russian military plane with 11 people on board crashed in the Pacific Ocean during a training flight late on Friday, the Defense Ministry said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_lawyer_killed ap/20091106/eu_russia_lawyer_killed AP world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:25:26 GMT AP - A suspect in the killing of a human rights lawyer and a journalist has confessed to the crime, his lawyer said Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_human_rights ap/20091105/eu_russia_human_rights AP world Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:55:57 GMT AP - A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_poland_us ap/20091105/eu_russia_poland_us AP world Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:16 GMT AP - Russia's foreign minister said Thursday he was surprised by Poland's call for more U.S. troops on Polish soil in response to Moscow's assertiveness, a news agency reported. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/wl_nm/us_russia_wall_poll nm/20091105/us_russia_wall_poll Reuters world Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:14:58 GMT Reuters - More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/wl_afp/russiarightscrime afp/20091105/russiarightscrime AFP world Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:55:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/wl_afp/russiarightscrime"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257446998728-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=102&q=85&sig=4JACQs91IRJ7XtT7aWoX4w--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="Female Russian murder suspect Yevgenia Khasis, with a black bag over her head, is led by plain-clothes police operatives into a Moscow court. Two Russian nationalists have been arrested and charged in the high-profile killings of a human rights lawyer and journalist who were gunned down in Moscow in January, officials said on Thursday.(AFP)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Two Russian nationalists have been arrested and charged in the high-profile killings of a human rights lawyer and journalist who were gunned down in Moscow in January, officials said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/wl_afp/russiarightscrime"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257446998728-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=102&q=85&sig=4JACQs91IRJ7XtT7aWoX4w--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="photo" title="Female Russian murder suspect Yevgenia Khasis, with a black bag over her head, is led by plain-clothes police operatives into a Moscow court. Two Russian nationalists have been arrested and charged in the high-profile killings of a human rights lawyer and journalist who were gunned down in Moscow in January, officials said on Thursday.(AFP)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/wl_nm/us_russia_georgia_spy nm/20091105/us_russia_georgia_spy Reuters world Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:54:10 GMT Reuters - Russian military intelligence believes Georgia might again attack South Ossetia, the pro-Moscow region over which the two countries fought a war last year, a powerful spy chief said on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_national_unity_day ap/20091104/eu_russia_national_unity_day AP world Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:13:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_national_unity_day"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.2657770136ee4221a7a3376cd26d648c.russia_national_unity_day_mosb138.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=V2BIfSjwVJDt4U9t13k4Sg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="Extreme nationalists beat the protesters, who tried to confront them at the nationalists rally marking National Unity Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, with the Russian Empire's black-yellow-white flags in the background. The new holiday, marking the end of the foreign intervention in Russia in 1612, was created in 2005 to replace the traditional Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 Bolshevik rise to power. But it has been seized upon by extreme nationalists. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)" border="0" /></a>AP - Tens of thousands of people took part in Moscow street rallies and concerts Wednesday on a new national holiday that the Kremlin tried to portray as a celebration of Russia's ethnic diversity.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_national_unity_day"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.2657770136ee4221a7a3376cd26d648c.russia_national_unity_day_mosb138.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=V2BIfSjwVJDt4U9t13k4Sg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="Extreme nationalists beat the protesters, who tried to confront them at the nationalists rally marking National Unity Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, with the Russian Empire's black-yellow-white flags in the background. The new holiday, marking the end of the foreign intervention in Russia in 1612, was created in 2005 to replace the traditional Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 Bolshevik rise to power. But it has been seized upon by extreme nationalists. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_georgia_russia ap/20091104/eu_georgia_russia AP world Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:17:09 GMT AP - Georgia's foreign minister renounced his Russian citizenship Wednesday, formally cutting ties with Moscow that were formed in the Soviet era. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/wl_afp/russiaaccidentfire afp/20091104/russiaaccidentfire AFP world Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:23:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/wl_afp/russiaaccidentfire"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257301306613-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=t8Qmtxi_aS.k2qH02cD2FA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Firefighters extinguish a blaze at a warehouse in St. Petersburg. The huge fire broke out at a facility owned by an industrial firm in Russia's second city, news agencies reported.(AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A massive fire broke out late Tuesday at a facility owned by an industrial firm in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, Russian news agencies reported.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/wl_afp/russiaaccidentfire"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257301306613-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=t8Qmtxi_aS.k2qH02cD2FA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Firefighters extinguish a blaze at a warehouse in St. Petersburg. The huge fire broke out at a facility owned by an industrial firm in Russia's second city, news agencies reported.(AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_russia_inflation ap/20091103/eu_russia_inflation AP business Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:13:44 GMT AP - Consumer prices in Russia stayed flat in October for a third straight month of zero inflation, the federal statistics agency said Tuesday, opening the door for further interest rates cuts by the central bank. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/wl_nm/us_russia_killing nm/20091102/us_russia_killing Reuters world Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:52:10 GMT Reuters - Gunmen shot dead a former KGB spy turned basketball tycoon in his car Monday a few hundred meters from the Moscow office of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, officials said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_businessman_shot ap/20091102/eu_russia_businessman_shot AP world Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:36:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_businessman_shot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091102/capt.f46951b8ed8d404db2c5b90dce64b13f.russia_lithuania_businessman_shot_mosb142.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=9ewhsqbEwXUezDz0ttFdag--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="In this photo taken April 28, 1999, Shabattai Kalmanovich, seen in Vilnius, Lithuania. Kalmanovich, 60, a Russian businessman convicted in Israel in the 1980s of being a KGB spy, the chief executive of Spartak's women's basketball team since 2008, was gunned down Monday , Nov. 2, 2009, near his apartment in central Moscow after unidentified gunmen opened fire on his Mercedes from an onpassing car, Moscow city police said. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Russian businessman who had been convicted in Israel of being a KGB spy was shot dead in Moscow on Monday, police said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_businessman_shot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091102/capt.f46951b8ed8d404db2c5b90dce64b13f.russia_lithuania_businessman_shot_mosb142.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=9ewhsqbEwXUezDz0ttFdag--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken April 28, 1999, Shabattai Kalmanovich, seen in Vilnius, Lithuania. Kalmanovich, 60, a Russian businessman convicted in Israel in the 1980s of being a KGB spy, the chief executive of Spartak's women's basketball team since 2008, was gunned down Monday , Nov. 2, 2009, near his apartment in central Moscow after unidentified gunmen opened fire on his Mercedes from an onpassing car, Moscow city police said. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)