Russian Maxim Chudov has won the fourth qualification sprint race of the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhoff, Germany.

Board of Muftis of the RF has reported that the Friday prayers and pulpits in all mosques of the country will be dedicated to the Palestinians killed during Israeli’s Cast-Lead operation in Gaza.

For over a year a lawyer from the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has been trying to abolish Christmas celebration on the whole territory of Russia through the courts.

Belarus has raised the prices for Russian oil transit to Poland, Germany and Ukraine by 22.5 percent.

The 27-year-old Andrei Arshavin from Zenit, Russia, is for the first time on the list of best attaking players. He ranks 9 with the result of 28 points.

In 2008 Russian singer Dima Bilan became the Eurovision winner and Moscow was appointed the next location for the contest. That turned to be the political reason why Georgia refused to participate in Eurovision after the armed conflict in South Ossetia in August.

On January 6 the Israeli Air Force attacked the building in the centre of Gaza where the office of Russian TV channel “Rusiya al-yaum” was situated.

Since January 2009 drugs sold in some Tallin drugstores will contain information lists in the Estonian and Russian languages.

Russia is not going to give up test launches of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, as deputy chief of the Russian General Staff of Armed Forces said on Sunday.

The Estonian Ministry of Justice has refused to translate the laws into Russian in 2009 explaining that the lack of finance is the reason, EER Uudised reports. This means that nearly 400,000 citizens will not have access to the legal acts in their native language.