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The Russian space agency Roscosmos says it will set up a commission for quality control in the space industry after the loss of the Progress spacecraft. The Progress M-12M space freighter carrying food and other items to the International Space Station fell in South Siberia’s Altai Republic on Wednesday evening after failing to separate from [...]

Police detained five militants and defused two bombs on Thursday in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, the National Anti-terrorism Committee said. The detained militants are reportedly linked to terrorism organizations. One of those detained is accused of being involved into the 2010 suicide bombing in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, when 17 [...]

The Russian Foreign Ministry denied on Thursday that it has received an invitation from France to take part in an international conference of “friends of Libya,” which will take place in Paris on September 1. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was quoted in Western media reports on Wednesday as saying that he had invited countries who [...]

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket with the Glonass-M navigation satellite was postponed for an additional equipment check, Russia’s Space Forces commander said on Thursday. The launch from the Plesetsk Space Center in northern Russia was scheduled for Thursday. The statement comes shortly after Russia lost its second spacecraft in less than a week [...]

Famous actor Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy will arrive in Moscow on September 8 to present the Real Steel movie, the Walt Disney Company said on Thursday. The 42-year-old Australian actor visited Moscow in 2009 as part of a promo tour for the Wolverine film. The Real Steel action movie, which will hit the [...]

The body of a woman who drowned during the sinking of the Bulgaria cruise ship and was buried in Belarus by mistake, will be exhumed and reburied in Russia’s Urals. Galina Batanova, 57, from the Perm Territory in the Urals, was mistakenly identified as 62-year-old Larisa Petukhova from Minsk. Petukhova’s relatives took the body to [...]

CKSA Moscow will have the opportunity to avenge a 2010 quarterfinal defeat to Inter Milan in this year’s Champions League as Thursday’s draw placed them in the same group for this season’s competition. CSKA also contend with Lille and Turkish side Trabzonspor, who this week replaced Fenerbahce, disqualified by UEFA over match-fixing suspicions, in Group [...]

A former employee has set fire to two luxury cars belonging to his former boss. The cars, a Maserati Quattro Porte and a BMW X6 were left in a guarded parking lot in central Moscow. The fire was soon extinguished, but the cars were badly damaged. Both of them belonged to the editor-in-chief of Night [...]

Hackers from the group Anonymous released a video on the Web this week in which the collective calls out Congress for a controversial new bill that could put Internet users in prison for streaming videos online. Should S.978 be put on the books, streaming copyrighted material on the Web could land a person in jail [...]

Moscow police are on high alert and the media is speculating on a possible repeat of the Manezh ethnic riots that blighted Moscow last December. This comes after an ethnic Russian died following a punch from a Dagestani martial arts champion, Rasul Mirzaev, outside a famous Moscow nightspot. The offender was arrested but then released [...]

Widely known for its architectural variety, Moscow can offer the curious tourist a long list of venues with unusual and fascinating stories behind them. This time RT explores the best foreign-inspired bits of architecture in the Russian capital. Moscow is obviously very Russian in both its style and its content. Still, if you look carefully, [...]

Some 5,000 official taxi licenses have been issued since July in the Russian capital. This is part of the national taxi modernisation programme and plans are afoot for further improvements in Moscow. Taxi ranks have been promised across the capital, and all taxis will have meters, yellow lights on the roof and chequered sides. A [...]

While Gorky park is preparing to host a food festival organised by Afisha-Food magazine, chef Isaac Correa shared a couple of his tasty secrets with RT. Whether you are an aspiring cook or just like tasty food, Moscow’s Gorky Park is the place where you need to go on Saturday. Moscow’s top restaurants will set [...]

While violent unrest continues in Syria, concerns about the fate of Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons are growing. There are fears it could fall into the wrong hands, causing catastrophic results. ­Syria is one of the states that the US government believes possesses large stocks of chemical agents in militarized form. These weapons are thought [...]