Moscow - A Moscow court on Tuesday began hearing a case bringing serious charges of embezzlement and fraud against jailed ex- oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev.
Khodorkovsky denounced the trial as unfair as long as state prosecutors had charge of the case.
"The trial is absurd. It goes against all logic," he was quoted as news agency Interfax as saying in his statement.
Moscow, Mar. 31 : A Russian academic has predicted that the United States will disintegrate into six blocs by the summer of 2010, and warned that world leaders attending the second G-20 Summit in London will not be able to reverse the global recession or halt the inevitable collapse of the US economy.
In his interview with Sky News, Professor Igor Panarin said he came up with his grim forecast back in 1998 while analyzing the parallels between the Soviet Union in its final years and the current situation in the US.
Moscow/Tolyatti, Russia - Russia will allocate over 20 billion rubles (589 million dollars) to support the country's largest automaker AvtoVAZ, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday.
He said the funds should allow the company to attract another 90 billion rubles (6.64 billion dollars).
Putin was shown on state television dressed casually in a black sweater and suit addressing workers at AvtoVAZ's Volga river manufacturing base in Tolyatti, about 750 kilometres east of Moscow.
Moscow - Russia, Iran and Central Asian states called Friday for Afghanistan's neighbours to coordinate their efforts and be more actively engaged in helping the country fight terrorism and drug- trafficking.
The comments at a Russia-sponsored summit on Afghanistan seemed targeted at alerting Washington just four days before a broader UN- led conference that it must play more attention to the interests of regional powers in strategy planning.
Moscow - Russia plans to create a military force directed at defending its interests in the Arctic by 2020, the National Security Council said in a strategy document published Friday.
The reported posted on the council's web site outlined the government's plan to set up a special force "to guarantee Russia's military security in diverse military and political circumstances."
A spokesman for the council told news agency Ria-Novosti that Russia's strategy did not signal confrontation.
Moscow - An Iranian delegation in Moscow on Friday said they would not meet with US delegates on the sidelines of the international summit on Afghanistan, Russian news agencies reported.
Russia had earlier this week said it would be ready to facilitate talks between US and Iranian diplomats
Moscow - A Moscow court on Tuesday began hearing a case bringing serious charges of embezzlement and fraud against jailed ex- oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev.
Moscow, Mar. 31 : A Russian academic has predicted that the United States will disintegrate into six blocs by the summer of 2010, and warned that world leaders attending the second G-20 Summit in London will not be able to reverse the global recession or halt the inevitable collapse of the US economy.
Moscow/Tolyatti, Russia - Russia will allocate over 20 billion rubles (589 million dollars) to support the country's largest automaker AvtoVAZ, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday.
Moscow - Russia, Iran and Central Asian states called Friday for Afghanistan's neighbours to coordinate their efforts and be more actively engaged in helping the country fight terrorism and drug- trafficking.
Moscow - Russia plans to create a military force directed at defending its interests in the Arctic by 2020, the National Security Council said in a strategy document published Friday.
Moscow - An Iranian delegation in Moscow on Friday said they would not meet with US delegates on the sidelines of the international summit on Afghanistan, Russian news agencies reported.
