The carrier rocket of middle class “Souz-U” with a spacecraft “Cosmos” has been successfully started from National cosmodrome Plesetsk.

Russian combined team beat Switzerland in a hard match at the ice hockey world championship.

France projects to hold the world-famous Le Bourget and Russian MAKS Air Shows together, Anne-Marie Idrac, the current French Minister of State for foreign trade, said at a Moscow conference on Thursday.

Russian engineers have proceeded to clearing mines along the route of South Stream Pipeline in Serbia.