A Ukrainian-Russian rocket has lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan with an Israeli communications satellite on board, a federal space agency spokesman said on Monday.
A Russian daily said Monday that Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller could offer Romano Prodi, who steps down as Italy's premier in early May, a top post in South Stream AG, a European gas pipeline project.
Members of Russia's ruling United Russia party on Saturday elected Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as its leader at a party congress.
Sweden’s Loreen has won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with 372 points with her hit Euphoria, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Sunday.
An independent candidate at the Egyptian presidential elections, Hamdeen Sabbahi of the nationalist Dignity party, who came the third in the polls’ first round on Wednesday and Thursday, said he would appeal the results because of violations.
Twelve Russians, the crew members of a An-30 turboprop that crash landed on May 23 at an airport in the east of Prague, and Russian Defense Ministry inspectors returned to Russia on Saturday, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry said.