Kyrgyzstan received military trucks and communications equipment from Russia on Wednesday, the first part of an aid package to reinforce its fragile borders ahead of the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from nearby Afghanistan. BISHKEK — Kyrgyzstan received military trucks and communications equipment from Russia on Wednesday, the first...

In the event of its providing financial support to the European Union, Russia must set a number of conditions for the further development of economic relations between Moscow and Brussels, Alexei Pushkov, chairman of the State Duma foreign policy committee, said in an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta published Friday, Interfax reported. "It seems to me that if it does decide to help Europe, Russia could accompany its decision with a certain amount of wishes concerning our economic relations...

The Emergency Situations Ministry created an iPhone application enabling users to call rescuers and inform relatives immediately in case of emergency. The Emergency Situations Ministry created an iPhone application enabling users to call rescuers and inform relatives immediately in case of emergency, the ministry said Friday. In order to call the emergency service, a user should press a red button called "Send an SOS signal" on the application's main page...

Corruption in Russia was "normal" and "civilized" during Vladimir Putin's first stint as president and support for him has grown stronger as a result of recent opposition rallies, the prime minister's campaign manager has boasted. Corruption in Russia was "normal" and "civilized" during Vladimir Putin's first stint as president and support for him has grown stronger as a result of recent opposition rallies...

Vladimir Putin's elections campaign manager has cast new doubt on the continuance of the ruling tandem by suggesting that President Dmitry Medvedev should do more to support the prime minister's bid to return to the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin's election campaign manager has cast new doubt on the continuance of the ruling tandem by suggesting that President Dmitry Medvedev should do more to support the prime minister's bid to return to the Kremlin. "I have a...

... pregnant with her first child — discovered she was HIV-positive. Katya moved to Moscow seven years ago and three years later — when she was pregnant with her first child — discovered she was HIV-positive. In a country where open discussion of AIDS is rare, Katya initially didn't know where to turn. She tried her local priests, but they told her that "there's no such thing as HIV." After going through feelings of shock, denial and helplessness, she came to accept her diagnosis with...

... organizations have been painting Moscow and Beijing as "disgusting" accomplices to Assad's brutal "killing machine." This narrative expects independent great powers like Russia to deny the obvious reality that an armed insurrection aided by foreign powers is plunging Syria into greater turmoil. Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, repeatedly criticized the lack of "balance" and the "one-sided" nature of the Security Council resolution. His language...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, standing for election in a March presidential vote, pledged $8 billion in development aid for the coal industry during a visit to a major mining region, a hotbed of political protest in the past. KEMEROVO — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, standing for election in a March presidential vote, pledged $8...

... an amateur photographer since the age of 4, warned against showing voters' documents and faces as well as voters marking their ballots inside the voting booth. He also offered tips on taking scene shots at the voting precincts. His presentation was aided by some electoral props. The ballot box was transparent, an innovation introduced for the upcoming presidential election as a means of preventing fraud. "If a ray of sunlight falls at a certain angle on the semitransparent ballot box when it...

... human rights council to stop "harassment" by Interior Ministry officials pursuing a posthumous criminal case against Magnitsky, Hermitage Capital said Tuesday. The request came after Magnitsky's relatives were summoned for the fifth time to aid the investigation against the anti-corruption whistleblower, who was arrested on tax evasion charges in 2008 after he accused officials of stealing $230 million from the state budget. He died in pretrial detention a year later. Magnitsky's relatives...

... discussed alternative routes with Deputy Mayor Alexander Gorbenko on Tuesday but failed to reach an agreement, Interfax said. Meanwhile, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Tuesday replaced the head of City Hall's security department, Valery Kadatsky, with mayoral aide Alexei Mayorov in what Udaltsov linked to a "toughening of the tactics of the federal and city authorities toward opposition and civil activists amid the growth in protest mood." Udaltsov said he feared that "the situation might spin...

... Hungary's state airline Malev stopped flying after 66 years on Friday, citing bankruptcy, amid debts to creditors that include 100 million euros ($130 million) owed to VEB. The decision was prompted by a European Commission demand that Malev pay back state aid it had received between 2007 and 2010, the airline said in a press release. The sum in question amounts to 38 million forints ($171 million), equivalent to Malev's entire annual revenues. Two aircraft were reportedly impounded by creditors. One airliner...

... was found dead Saturday in her room at the Beverly Hills hotel. Police said an autopsy would be conducted to determine the cause of her unexpected death, The Associated Press reported. "We cherish the memory," Arkady Dvorkovich, an economic aide to President Dmitry Medvedev, wrote about Houston on his Twitter feed Sunday. Houston was one of the world's best-selling artists from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Her fame with Russian audiences came in 1992, after she played the leading part...

... from United Russia included world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, who became first deputy head of the natural resources committee, and Soviet-era singer Iosif Kobzon, who was named first deputy head of the culture committee. Dzakhan Pollyeva, a former aide to President Dmitry Medvedev, became the Duma's chief of staff, RIA-Novosti reported . The meeting marks the second time the Duma has assembled since the widely challenged parliamentary elections on Dec. 4, which were rife with allegations of voting...

... history:</b></td><td><p><b>Research Assistant</b><br>University of Toronto<br>• Wrote updated lecture notes on current EU accession progress of the Republics of Former Yugoslavia for supervisor's undergraduate seminars • Aided supervisor in market research project for intercultural communication policies used among Canadian MNCs •Compiled topic specific research material lists for different researcher (2009-10) in Russian <p><b>Government...

... or cause is particularly close to you? A: Aside from my work with ARC, as a family we support large international charities such as Amnesty International and Save the Children. I also encourage my children to sponsor children in Africa through Action Aid. Q: What would you say to those who aren't already involved in charity work? A: Go for it — it provides a great perspective on life. If they'd like to get involved with ARC specifically, then they can find all the information on our website...

... registration but had a criminal disposition and manifested anti-social behavior. Fares Askerov, a Pentecostal cleric in Moscow, said volunteers with the church also encountered resistance from Moscow district police when feeding and proving medical aid in the street to hundreds of homeless. Apart from police problems, Sosinsky said activists struggle to pay rent, get passports and registration for the homeless, train them to work and hire psychologists to help those with psychological problems....

... Security Service be so upset about the victory of one pro-Russian candidate over another? There are two reasons. The first concerns purely economic interests. Those currently in power in South Ossetia have reportedly embezzled enormous sums from the aid the republic receives from Moscow. Thus, they have far greater resources to bribe their benefactors than the opposition, which does not have access to these funds. The largest victim is Russia's wounded reputation. After all, how can the Kremlin...

... liberalization and fair elections. The anti-American spin was introduced by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin himself, who in December accused the State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of financing nongovernmental organizations that were aiding the protesters. The accusations, which McFaul staunchly denies, have added urgency to his efforts to create a counternarrative through interviews with Russian media and posts on Facebook and Twitter. "McFaul is the ideal ambassador for the...

... electoral effect. Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin called the idea of merging parties "nonviable" because the groups "have noting in common," but said a coalition was "a different thing," Kommersant reported. Prokhorov aide Yuliana Slashyova told Kommersant that her boss had been in talks with Kudrin to create a party, but that they "have worked out no certain decisions." Kudrin wrote on his Twitter feed Tuesday that he has consulted with Parnas leaders,...