The Russian consul in the UAE claims the man killed in Dubai last Saturday is Sulim Yamadayev, a Hero of the Russian Federation and the former commander of Battalion Vostok.

The troops are to enhance military security scenario-depended and run optimization of the integrated control system in the Arctic Region including frontier control.

Today Russia announced a ban on hunting of baby seals, hence giving a chance to these animals revive their population, which shrank considerably for the past years over melting ice in the White Sea and hunting.

A new program to save polar bears has been introduced by the Russian authorities at the meeting of “arctic” countries in Norway – Russia plans to set up a national reservation called Russian Arctic in the northern part of Novaya Zemlya Island Territory, the Arkhangelsk Region.

No matter what foreign media sources say about Russia and its politicians, it is evident that improving image of the country abroad becomes vitally important.

The most dangerous of the wastes, the so-called uranium tails, pose a threat to all Russian towns along the rail route, believe the environmentalists.

Russian businessman Evgueny Chichvarkin, the former co-owner of Euroset, has been put on the Interpol's wanted list, reports the Interfax news agency.

NATO decided to resume cooperation with the Russian Federation, NATO secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said yesterday in Brussels.

Julia Yalovitsyna, from Karelia, Russia, climbed to the second place on the short list of candidates for “the best job in the world” - caretaker of Hamilton Island, the Great Barrier Reef.

Four Russian daredevils headed by Anatoli Kulik from Novosibirsk have finished the second stage of their journey round the world by crossing the Indian Ocean from the Indian coast to the Seychelles Islands by a homemade inflatable catamaran.