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MOSCOW----GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company , today announced the installation of Russia’s first high-definition computed tomography scanner, GE Healthcare’s flagship Discovery CT750HD, at the Center of Medical Rehabilitation by the Russian Ministry of Health in Moscow led by Professor Konstantin V.
Georgia is very worried about the possible sale of French warships to Russia and intends to press the issue of security guarantees in France, the country's foreign minister said Thursday.
MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Russia said Wednesday it had counted 11,633 cases of the H1N1 flu and 46 cities in which the disease is at epidemic levels.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s dollar appreciated to the highest in a week after Russia’s central bank said it will add the currency to its reserves and as copper rose and gold headed for the longest string of gains in almost three decades.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The Russian government may sell a stake in VTB Group , the country’s second-biggest lender, and targets a premium as high as 67 percent on the purchase price, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said.
U.S. negotiators working to conclude a new strategic arms treaty with Russia are discussing ways to continue nuclear weapons monitoring until the new accord can be ratified, a State Department spokesman said on Monday.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired four top military officers after two explosions at a Ulyanovsk military depot this month left 10 people dead.
The U.S. says President Barack Obama's top military adviser attended the latest talks with Russia to replace an expiring Cold War-era arms control agreement.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s central bank cut its key interest rates to a record low in the ninth reduction since April as it seeks to deter speculative bets on the ruble and ease credit flows to households and businesses.
The net profits of Russia's largest oil firm, state-owned Rosneft, plummeted 53.2 percent in the first nine months of 2009 compared to the same period last year, the company said on Wednesday.
Russia’s central bank lowers its refinancing rate by 50 basis points on Tuesday, extending its easing cycle.
SEPTEMBER 2008 -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin looks at a tranquilized five-year-old tiger as researchers put a collar with a satellite tracker on the animal in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Daimler AG is in talks about raising its stake in OAO KamAZ , Russia’s biggest truck maker, to expand in Europe’s No. 1 market for the vehicles.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. and Israel are trying to force Russia to halt the sale of an $800 million missile system to Iran that will help protect nuclear plants, the commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps said.
A cutting-edge French warship sailed into St. Petersburg Monday to show off its capabilities to potential buyers in the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries. Russia's once-mighty navy was... Russia - Saint Petersburg - Soviet Union - Georgia - Amphibious assault ship
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russian prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into the death of an imprisoned lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management after President Dmitry Medvedev demanded action.
(RTTNews) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a federal bill on energy-saving and energy-efficiency, besides making amendments to several pieces of legislation.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sacked four top generals Tuesday after an explosion at a Navy arsenal killed at least eight bomb disposal experts a day earlier, he announced.
Prime Minister Famously Put Transmitter on Rare Siberian Tiger in 2008, Drawing Attention to Plight of the Endangered Species
The explosion in central Russia occurred while soldiers were disposing of unexploded munitions left over from an earlier explosion on Nov. 13, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s dollar appreciated to the highest in a week after Russia’s central bank said it will add the currency to its reserves, and as crude oil and stock-index futures rose.
