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Daghestan appears set to make headlines in Russia for something other than the continuing terrorism and violence that have increasingly plagued the North Caucasus republic. According to reports, Anzhi Makhachkala is close to finalizing the transfer of one of the top forwards in Europe, Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon. Eto’o has won the top European club [...]

Uzbekistan, like other former Soviet republics, is preparing to mark 20 years of independence, and media in the country are focusing on the role President Islam Karimov played — or allegedly played — in securing Uzbekistan’s freedom from the Soviet Union. Uzbek television is airing a series devoted to Karimov and the leadership he showed [...]

PHOTO GALLERY: Images from the failed Soviet coup of August 19-21, 1991. By Brian Whitmore, Robert Coalson It has been 20 years since the failed coup that precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, 20 years since 15 new independent countries appeared on the global stage But for citizens of these adolescent states, the meaning [...]

MOSCOW, Aug 18 (PRIME) — The acting governor of Russias Tula Region Vladimir Gruzdev has been permanently appointed to the post by the regional legislative house at an extraordinary meeting on Thursday, RIA Novosti reported. After being nominated, Gruzdev said that he plans to cut the regions bureaucracy and create a regional government in the [...]

MOSCOW, Aug 18 (PRIME) — MOSCOW, Aug 18 (PRIME) — Russias Federal Space Agency has confirmed it has failed to locate communications satellite Express-AM4, which was expected to be put into orbit by launch vehicle Proton-M, RIA Novosti reported Thursday. The launch vehicles upper stage Briz-M failed to send data on its location to ground [...]

KIEV, August 18 (Itar-Tass) —— Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Timoshenko, who is facing a trial on office abuse charges, on Thursday asked Kiev’s Pechersky Court to let a doctor examine her in prison over health impairment. “I demand they let a doctor I trust see me,” she said at court. Timoshenko’s lawyer, Yuri Sukhov, [...]

VLADIVOSTOK, August 18 (Itar-Tass) —— A large pack of white sharks is presumed to have approached the beaches of Primorye. The predators are blamed for two attacks on holiday-makers in the Khasan district. All emergency services are on the alert, swimming in the sea is forbidden, but persuading people to stay out of the water [...]

MOSCOW, August 18 (Itar-Tass) — State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Konstantin Kosachev said the international community should uphold political reforms in Syria in order to prevent throwback. The world community “should find opportunities to encourage the Syrian leadership in its drive for carrying out political reforms. New sanctions could put out this process”, Kosachev [...]

MAIKOP, August 18 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has pledged to raise wages to school teachers by at least 30 percent. “Wages will be raised through federal subsidies to the regions to modernize education, although much will depend on efforts taken by regional authorities,” he told a meeting of education specialists. “Under the new [...]

MOSCOW, August 18 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will make the Latin American tour on August 21-25, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday. During the tour, Lavrov will visit El Salvador, Peru and Venezuela. One of the priorities “is to strengthen a political dialogue and trade and economic relations”. “Trade turnover [...]

MOSCOW, August 18 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian trading floors slumped before Thursday closing. MICEX fell by 3.73 percent to 1,452.83 points, and the RTS index, by 4.79 percent to 1,584.20 points. Blue chips also showed a negative trend. The leaders of the fall today were Sberbank (- 6.27 percent), Severstal (- 6.05 percent), VTB (- 5.92 [...]

ZHUKOVSKY, August 18 (Itar-Tass) —— The program of demonstration flights on the third day of the MAKS 2011 air show in Zhukovsky in the Moscow region was concluded with the performance of planes of the times of the Second World War. About one hour before the closure of the business day at the air show, [...]

MOSCOW, August 18 (Itar-Tass) —— The crime solution rate in the Central Federal District is lower than in any other federal district of Russia, Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika said at a business meeting of CFD prosecutors. The results of the first half of the year were the main issue on the agenda. “The crime solution rate [...]

MOSCOW, August 18 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday had a telephone conversation with his counterpart from Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the Kremlin press service reported. “The two presidents discussed current issues of the Russian-Turkmen cooperation and the results of recent bilateral contacts in various areas,” the press service said. According to the press [...]