http://en.rian.ru/RIA NovostiRIA Novostihttp://en.rian.ru/business/20120209/171232785.htmlBusiness3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:38:12 +0400http://en.rian.ru/crime/20120209/171232770.htmlCrime3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:37:17 +0400http://en.rian.ru/video/20120209/171232472.htmlVideo 3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:15 +0400Several moose have been spotted in northeast Moscow by passers-by, drivers and students from the technology college. The inhabitants of the Moose Island Park were peacefully "grazing" in a clearing near trees and shrubs.http://en.rian.ru/trend/protests_syria_2011/WorldThu, 09 Feb 2012 16:06:00 +0400http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120209/171232225.htmlRussia3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:06:00 +0400The Arab League, Russia and China will jointly coordinate efforts to end the violence in Syria, the Arabic daily Asharq Alawsat reported on Thursday, citing the deputy head of the Arab League, Ahmad Bin Helli.http://en.rian.ru/business/20120209/171232045.htmlBusiness3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:53:00 +0400Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on Thursday for a review of the penal code to ease pressure and harassment of business.http://en.rian.ru/sports/20120209/171231732.htmlSports3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:41:00 +0400Roberto Carlos cried as he announced this year would be his last as a player, Anzhi Makhachkala coach Yuri Krasnozhan was quoted as saying Thursday.http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20120209/171229791.htmlImage galleries3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:37:00 +0400The remains of Chersonesus is Sevastopol’s main landmark. Few people have seen the legendary ruins covered with snow, a rare phenomenon in the area. Photos from the YouReporter project.http://en.rian.ru/trend/sochiolympics/RussiaThu, 09 Feb 2012 15:33:00 +0400http://en.rian.ru/sports/20120209/171231468.htmlSports3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:33:00 +0400Sochi's Olympic ski venue is "world class" and as good a competition destination as any on the World Cup tour, Vancouver gold medalist Bode Miller said Thursday.http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20120209/171229191.htmlImage galleries3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:25:00 +0400The 17th Philippine International Balloon Festival is taking place from February 9 to 12.http://en.rian.ru/business/20120209/171231103.htmlBusiness3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:21:00 +0400The Russian government’s decision that Russia’s second largest bank VTB should hold a share buy-back to compensate losses to shareholders in the bank's "people’s IPO" was taken to protect the bank’s reputation in the eyes of society and investors, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.http://en.rian.ru/society/20120209/171231008.htmlSociety3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:12:00 +0400Russian Children Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov on Thursday called on the government to take urgent measures to contain an alarming rash of teenage suicides across the country.http://en.rian.ru/society/20120209/171230988.htmlSociety3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:11:00 +0400Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on Thursday reducing the nearly two-week-long Christmas and New Year holidays and shifting them to May.http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120209/171230955.htmlRussia3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:09:00 +0400The issue of the legitimacy of privatization in the 1990s in Russia should be closed, and a mechanism for doing that should be devised, Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said on Thursday at a business lobby group congress.http://en.rian.ru/business/20120209/171230283.htmlBusiness3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:27:00 +0400Russian state-controlled banks have submitted information on their top managers’ incomes and their business transactions, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday.http://en.rian.ru/business/20120209/171230143.htmlBusiness3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:21:00 +0400U.S. Riviera Travel & Tours filed a nearly $3.5 billion suit in District Court Central District of California against Russian flagship airline Aeroflot accusing it of extortion, RAPSI legal news agency reported on Thursday.http://en.rian.ru/trend/russia_elections_president_2012/RussiaThu, 09 Feb 2012 14:11:00 +0400http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120209/171230076.htmlRussia3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:11:00 +0400Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin does not intend to meet with representatives from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) who have arrived in Russia to observe the presidential election, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20120209/171229834.htmlFeatures, Opinion & Analysis3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:54:00 +0400On Wednesday, two days after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that there are no political prisoners in Russia, two opposition personalities, journalist Olga Romanova and State Duma member Gennady Gudkov, submitted to the presidential administration a list of 39 inmates whom they describe as “political prisoners.”http://en.rian.ru/business/20120209/171229636.htmlBusiness3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:51:00 +0400Russian business should support the authorities in the run-up to the presidential election, VTB bank head Andrei Kostin said on Thursday at a business lobby group meeting.http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120209/171229566.htmlRussia3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:49:00 +0400Supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are to hold a public rally for up to 200,000 in the streets of Moscow on February 23, in what would be the biggest political demonstration in the last two decades.http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120209/171229310.htmlRussia3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:41:00 +0400The State Duma will invite political parties that have no parliamentary representation to discuss reform of the country’s political system on February 28, Oleg Morozov, deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament, said on Thursday.http://en.rian.ru/sports/20120209/171228958.htmlSports3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:19:00 +0400Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko on Thursday moved to end confusion over the first key test event at the Sochi 2014 Olympic ski jump facility, saying a competition that had been postponed until March due to construction delays would go ahead this month as originally planned.http://en.rian.ru/business/20120209/171228429.htmlBusiness3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:34:00 +0400Russia’s second-largest banking group, VTB, intends to buy back shares sold in a "people's IPO" in 2007 at the original offer price or almost double the current market price, Mikhail Zadornov, head of the bank’s retail arm, VTB-24, said on Thursday.http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20120209/171216917.htmlColumnists3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:12:00 +0400There has been an uptick in anti-American sentiment in the Russian blogosphere recently. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the failure of the Phobos-Grunt mission – far from the only Russian space mishap in recent years – could have been caused by emissions from an American radar station. The response was powerful – we knew they were to blame!http://en.rian.ru/world/20120209/171227776.htmlWorld3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0400At least 117 people were killed on Wednesday in the Syrian city of Homs in the bombardment that has continued there since February 4, Al Arabiya reported on Thursday, citing the Syrian opposition.http://en.rian.ru/trend/russian_state_duma_elections_2011/RussiaThu, 09 Feb 2012 11:53:00 +0400http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120209/171227724.htmlRussia3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:53:00 +0400The third largest faction in the European Parliament has called for a freeze on contacts with the Russian State Duma until Russia holds "free and fair parliamentary elections."http://en.rian.ru/sports/20120209/171227715.htmlSports3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:52:00 +0400Unics Kazan coach Evgeny Pashutin has shrugged off his team's Euroleague basketball 63-58 defeat to Olimpia Milano, saying Thursday "nothing has changed" in the fight to reach the playoffs.http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20120209/171227695.htmlDefense3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:50:00 +0400Russia’s Sevmash shipyard is to convert the multirole Project 949AM nuclear submarine Belgorod for a “series of special missions,” the navy’s head Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said on Thursday.http://en.rian.ru/trend/crisis_in_greece/WorldThu, 09 Feb 2012 11:31:00 +0400http://en.rian.ru/business/20120209/171227450.htmlBusiness3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:31:00 +0400Greece hopes the EU will grant a second bailout worth 130 billion euros despite the government's failure to secure agreement on pension cuts at a marathon meeting that ended early on Thursday morning.http://en.rian.ru/video/20120209/171227226.htmlVideo 3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:21:00 +0400A subway train that was being tested following repairs derailed and crashed into a building in the Chilean capital Santiago on Wednesday morning.http://en.rian.ru/sports/20120209/171227250.htmlSports3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:21:00 +0400Ex-NBA forward Sonny Weems will not be allowed to leave Euroleague team Zalgiris, owner Vladimir Romanov has told RIA Novosti.http://en.rian.ru/world/20120209/171225017.htmlWorld3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:10:00 +0400Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force had to scramble fighter jets in response to flights by Russian military aircraft near Japanese airspace on Wednesdayhttp://en.rian.ru/sports/20120209/171226901.htmlSports3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:50:00 +0400Hungarian international striker Tamas Priskin has joined Russian second-tier team Alania Vladikavkaz after being released by English side Ipswich Town.http://en.rian.ru/sports/20120209/171226778.htmlSports3Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:43:00 +0400Zenit St. Petersburg coach Luciano Spalletti has signed a deal to keep him at the Petrovsky Stadium until 2015.