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US astronaut Joseph Acaba. ©REUTERS Woman takes command of ISS after crew return A woman took command of the International Space Station for only the second time Monday as three US and Russian colleagues made a safe return from the orbiting space lab to the Kazakh steppe.
17 September 2012
@RIA Novosti Russian army accidentally fires on school: official Russia launched an investigation after an army unit accidentally fired mortar shells into the grounds of a boarding school in the troubled North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
14 September 2012
Photo courtesy of official Muay Thai Championship website Kazakhstan Muay Thai team won 11 medals at World Championship Kazakhstan Muay Thai team won 11 medals Muay Thai World Championship 2012 in St. Petersburg.
14 September 2012
Photo courtesy of  www.akorda.kz Nazarbayev awarded Russia's Foreign Minister with Dostyk decoration Nazarbayev awarded Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Dostyk decoration of the 1st grade.
13 September 2012
Boris Berezovsky. ©RIA Novosti Russia state TV claims 'exiled oligarch behind Pussy Riot' Self-exiled Russian oligarch and Kremlin foe Boris Berezovsky was involved in organising Pussy Riot's performance in a Moscow cathedral.
13 September 2012
Photo courtesy of timesunion.com Ten dead in plane crash in Russian Far East Ten people died and four were injured Wednesday when a small plane crashed in Russia's Far East in the country's latest aviation disaster.
12 September 2012
West seeks to pressure Iran at IAEA Western countries will seek to turn the screw further on Iran at a meeting of UN atomic agency board of governors from Monday following the watchdog's latest damning report on Tehran's nuclear programme.
10 September 2012
Putin hides Russia's troubles with summit glitz President Vladimir Putin impressed leaders by holding an Asian summit on an island off a revamped Pacific city but the surface shimmer hid underlying problems in the Russian Far East and the country as a whole.
10 September 2012
Clinton hopes US to end Russia trade curbs Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced hope Saturday that the US Congress would act this month to end Cold War-era trade restrictions on Russia but also raised concerns on human rights.
09 September 2012
Dmitry Rogozin. ©RIA NOVOSTI Russia unveils own 'almost Android' system It seems that Russia's defence ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.
08 September 2012
Tensions set to cloud APEC summit Asia-Pacific leaders gather in Russia's far east this weekend for talks aimed at promoting trade but territorial disputes and other regional tensions may cloud the event.
05 September 2012
Vladimir Nesterov. ©RIA Novosti Russia fires top space official over launch failures Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired the chief of a key state-run aerospace bureau following several launch failures, the Kremlin said Monday.
04 September 2012
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. ©REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 'I love Russia, hate Putin' says jailed Pussy Riot activist One of the three members of punk band Pussy Riot jailed last month for a protest in a Russian cathedral launched a fierce new attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin in a magazine interview.
03 September 2012
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. ©RIA Novosti Russia says 'naive' to expect Assad to halt fire first Russia said Saturday it would be "naive" for outside powers to expect Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to withdraw his troops first from major cities and then wait for the opposition to follow suit.
01 September 2012
Abramovich wins battle of Russian oligarchs in Britain Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club, won his bitter legal battle with fellow oligarch Boris Berezovsky in a British court on Friday.
01 September 2012
Romney promises tougher US stance on Russia White House challenger Mitt Romney promised on Thursday to take a tougher line on Russia if he is elected in November, accusing Barack Obama of lacking backbone in the relationship.
31 August 2012
Football: 10-y.o. Kazakhstan player to study in Chertanovo Football School Russian coaches from CSKA, Lokomotiv and Chertanovo Football School took an interest in a 10-y.o. player from Kazakhstan.
29 August 2012
Rocket launch from Baikonur cosmodrome. ©RIA Novosti Kazakhstan is ready to discuss development of Sodruzhestvo superheavy rocket in cooperation with Russia and Ukraine The project is very interesting: Head of KazKosmos Talgat mussabayev.
29 August 2012
Angara rocket model in Khrunichev State Space Scientific-Production Center. ©RIA Novosti Building of Russian-Ukrainian-Kazakhstan rocket for flight to Moon will take 3-4 years Russia is able to build a new superheavy carrier rocket capable of delivering space vehicles of up to 20 tons to the Moon within 3-4 years.
28 August 2012
Baikonur cosmodrome. RIA Novosti© Russia’s Energia Space Corporation mulling a new superheavy carrier rocket in partnership with Kazakhstan and Ukraine The superheavy carrier rocket capable of sending a spaceship of up to 20 tons to the moon.
28 August 2012
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