The Russian media holding RIA Novosti was the first participant to be invited to join the European educational project VIA LIGHT, a continuation of the 2010 innovative project LIGHT, which sought to create a basic model of bilingual pre-school and school education in Europe for children of immigrants, including those from Russia and other CIS countries.
The leaders of 11 former Soviet republics have begun their informal summit in the Kremlin.
Police ordered anti-Putin activists on Tuesday to abandon the downtown Moscow camp they have been occupying for almost a week.
Ukrainian ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year jail term over her role in the signing of a 2009 gas deal with Russia, has refused to continue medial treatment for spinal disk herniation, Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister Alexander Tolstanov said on Tuesday.
The long-awaited trial of the former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic opens on Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague