GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani held a meeting here today with Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.
During the meeting, they discussed means of enhancing cooperation between the GCC countries and Russia in (...)
The death toll in the fire near Yekaterinburg grew to eight. The local branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry received information about the fire at 06:23 local time (04:23 Moscow time).
The firefighters, who arrived to the site, saw a burning (...)
AlQa'dah 9, 1433, Sep 25, 2012, SPA -- More than 22,000 schoolchildren have been evacuated from schools in Nizhnevartovsk in the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous district following an anonymous warning about a bomb planted in one of the school (...)
A forest fire broke out in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District close to the oil and gas field in Vyngayakha, the press service of the Urals federal district's forestry department told Itar-Tass on Monday.
The area damaged by wildfire is being (...)
An office building collapsed in Chelyabinsk on Thursday, rescuers are working at the scene. The information about casualties is being verified.
The press service of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's (EMERCOM) main department for the (...)
Two died and another two were injured as a two-story building collapsed in Tavda, Sverdlovsk region, at 2:41 p.m. local time (12:41 p.m. Moscow time) on Sunday, the regional emergency situations department said.
"Workers dismantling the (...)
The leaders of Russia and Germany met Thursday for talks and oversaw the signing of nearly a dozen deals between companies from the two countries worth billions of dollars.
In one of them, German engineering company Siemens AG contracted with (...)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday he wanted an explanation from Tehran over the “military components” of Iran's nuclear program.
“I would like to say that Iran is our rather active trading partner and has been tested by time, but that (...)
Forty hectares are afire in the state nature reserve Denezhkin Kamen in the Sverdlovsk Region.
Twenty three people fight the blaze with the use of four vehicles, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's regional centre told (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Thursday for talks and oversaw the signing of an array of deals between German and Russian companies worth billions of dollars, according to AP.
In one of them, German (...)
The leaders of Russia and Germany met Thursday for talks and oversaw the signing of nearly a dozen deals between companies from the two countries worth billions of dollars, according to AP.
In one of them, German engineering company Siemens AG (...)
A woman was killed and another one was injured in the blast at the wood chemical plant in the Sverdlovsk region on Wednesday.
The blast went off at 10.45 a.m. local time (08.45 a.m. Moscow time) on Wednesday, the press service of the regional (...)
An explosion killed six miners on Wednesday at a Russian iron ore mine owned by Evraz Group, an official for Evraz said.
"All work at the mine has been stopped. Everybody has been evacuated," he said. The total number missing was still being (...)
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), comprising Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics -Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - held their own summit Tuesday in the Russian Ural city of Yekaterinburg.
The (...)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari are likely to meet this week at a summit of Asian states in Russia where Iran's president could make his first international appearance since Friday's disputed election.
A (...)
Chinese leader Hu Jintao says China will extend a $10 billion loan to a regional group
that also includes Russia and four Central Asian states.
Hu spoke at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Russia.
He said the loan is intended (...)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the world needs new reserve currencies.
Medvedev told a regional summit Tuesday that the creation
of new reserve currencies in addition to the dollar is
needed to stabilize global finances.
Medvedev spoke (...)
Russian news agencies are reporting that the leaders of India and Pakistan have met on the sidelines of a summit in Russia.
State-run RIA-Novosti and Interfax say Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali
Zardari held (...)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will host leaders from China and Central Asia
Monday at the summit of a regional grouping, The Associated Press reported.
Afghanistan is likely to get close attention at the
two-day meeting of the Shanghai (...)
Over 2,000 people are flood-stranded in 13 settlements in the Sverdlovsk region as a result of an inundation triggered by torrential rains, a source in the regional emergencies department told Itar-Tass on Monday.
The water level in the rivers of (...)
All forest fires were localized in the Sverdlovsk region. The fire area makes about 1,500 hectares. Some 28 burning fires were localized and do not spread any longer, the press service of the regional Ministry of Natural Resources told Itar-Tass on (...)