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Foreign instructors are preparing terrorist groups to launch attacks in Russia, an Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov met in Moscow on Thursday to discuss arms reductions and Iran.
Soviet-era Moscow authorities succeeded in reducing the amount of snow using aviation, a Russian scientist said amid public arguments that the practice should be renewed.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the United States on Thursday that Russia could find other poultry suppliers if U.S. companies fail to meet the country's sanitary requirements.
A man in the central Russian republic of Chuvashia has been sentenced to a year's community work for killing and then eating a dog.
The head of a leading Russian privately-held bank said on Thursday that a new financial bubble was emerging in Russia and could threaten its economic recovery.
Russia's flagship carrier Aeroflot has finally taken the Tu-154M airliner (NATO reporting name Careless), out of service after decades in operation, the company said on Thursday.
The United States is not yet ready to observe Russian veterinary requirements regarding poultry meat, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Russia has put a number of popular smoking herbs on a list of controlled substances, the government website reported Thursday. 
North Korea on Thursday moved to reopen talks with the South on resuming cross-border tours to a scenic mountain area and a border town, which were halted in 2008.
Sales of new cars in Russia plummeted 49% in 2009 from the previous year's record high to 1.46 million vehicles, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) reported on Thursday.
Armenia and Russia denied a stalemate in talks on the Soviet-era Nagorny Karabakh dispute with Azerbaijan on Thursday.
A Russian Air Force Su-27 Flanker fighter disappeared off the radar screens in Khabarovsk Territory, a source in the Far East Military District said Thursday.
The Russian Orthodox Church looks set to become a major owner of property in Russia after a long-delayed law on returning religious property seized by the Bolsheviks got a push from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The Moscow government will not launch a snow prevention program until it obtains a feasibility study on its effectiveness, the city's economy chief said on Thursday.
A new type of punishment was introduced in Russia for criminal offenders on January 10, 2010
Soaring imports into Russia registered in the fourth quarter of 2009 threaten the country's economic recovery and may plunge it into a new economic decline, a business paper reported on Thursday.
Russia's government has launched a crusade against alcohol abuse, describing it as a "national disaster" and aiming to halve consumption by 2020 and root out illegal production and sales.



