Moscow - Right-wing extremists have claimed responsibility for decapitating a 20-year-old foreign worker from the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing investigators and human rights organizations.
The Tajik man's head was discovered in a plastic bag in a rubbish bin in Moscow. His body had been found on December 6.
A group calling itself the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" claimed responsibility for the attack in a image sent by mobile phone.
Moscow - The funeral of Patriarch Alexi II, the late head of the Russian Orthodox Church, took place Tuesday in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
Religious leaders, public representatives and foreign dignitaries paid their last respects before the patriarch's open casket at a moving Requiem Mass.
Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who was appointed temporary leader of the church after Alexi's death, led the liturgy.
Moscow - Tens of thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers paid their last respects Monday to Patriarch Alexi II who died on Friday at the age of 79.
People, many carrying white roses - Alexi's favourite flower - spent hours standing in line in the rain for a chance to file past the the patriarch's body lying in state at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
The funeral is scheduled for Tuesday, when Alexi's remains will be buried in the Ephiphany Cathedral in Moscow.
Moscow/Tbilisi - The government of Georgia sees room for restoring diplomatic relations with Russia despite the war the two nations fought in August, says Georgia's new foreign minister, according to a Russian newspaper.
"We are open to negotiations," said Grigol Vasadze, quoted in the Monday edition of Kommersant, a Moscow daily.
Commentators say Vasadze's appointment is a positive sign for relations between Russia and Georgia. Vasadze lived in Russia for 30 years and still holds Russian citizenship.
Moscow - A hospitalization forced former Soviet leader Mikhail Go
Moscow - Right-wing extremists have claimed responsibility for decapitating a 20-year-old foreign worker from the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing investigators and human rights organizations.
Moscow - At least four construction workers died in Moscow when a derelict building the
Moscow - The funeral of Patriarch Alexi II, the late head of the Russian Orthodox Church, took place Tuesday in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
Moscow - Tens of thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers paid their last respects Monday to Patriarch Alexi II who died on Friday at the age of 79.
Moscow/Tbilisi - The government of Georgia sees room for restoring diplomatic relations with Russia despite the war the two nations fought in August, says Georgia's new foreign minister, according to a Russian newspaper. 
