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MOSCOW -- Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and risks losing its place as a leader in space travel, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday. Efforts to build a successor to the 40-year...

In this article: Mikhail Tyurin, Soyuz, International Space Station, NASA, Mars, Novaya Gazeta, and United States

...from 2007 * Asset misappropriation, corruption most common fraud * More fraud expected in economic downturn By Dmitry Zhdannikov Russia has the world's most fraudulent economy and attempts to stamp out white-collar crime have done...

In this article: Respondent, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kenya, Recession, BRIC, Transparency International, and Dmitry Medvedev

Russia agrees to ease Ukraine gas supply terms Vladimir Putin said Russia could meet Ukraine 'halfway' on gas agreements Russia has agreed to ease the terms under which it supplies gas to Ukraine, in a deal which Moscow says should...

In this article: Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Europe, EU, Yulia Tymoshenko, Moscow, Gazprom, and Yalta

...Tymoshenko. "It would be very good to meet the New Year without any shocks," he said. Putin said Russia had agreed not to impose fines on Ukraine if it failed to use the volumes of gas it had agreed to. He added that Russian payments to...

In this article: Vladimir Putin, Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, Europe, and Moscow

President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday Russia has not decided yet whether it wants to join the WTO as a separate country or together with Kazakhstan and Belarus, its partners in a three-way customs union. "In my opinion both ways are...

In this article: WTO, Dmitry Medvedev, EU, Belarus, and Kazakhstan

...for the WTO. "We want the WTO talks to go quickly and be concluded soon," Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's ambassador to the EU, told reporters at a Russia-EU summit in Stockholm attended by President Dmitry Medvedev. "After the customs union...

In this article: World Trade Organization, European Union, Vladimir Putin, Recession, and Moscow

...energy issues occupied a central position at the summit -- the 24th between the EU and Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned last week that Russia would again close the valves on gas pipelines flowing west, if Ukraine fails to pay for...

In this article: European Union, Dmitry Medvedev, Natural gas, World Trade Organization, Jose Manuel Barroso, Moscow, Stockholm, All rights reserved, and Climate change

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The European Union and Russia hope to lay the foundations of a new economic and political partnership at a summit on Wednesday despite differences over energy, trade, human rights and climate change. Russian...

In this article: European Union, Europe, Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev, World Trade Organization, Stockholm, Ukraine, Climate change, and Global warming

...and its significance: THE PLANT The Bushehr plant is on the Gulf coast in southwest Iran. It is Iran's first nuclear power plant. Russia agreed in 1995 to build the plant on the site of an earlier project begun in the 1970s by German...

In this article: Iran, Bushehr, Tehran, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Allegation, Plutonium, and Uranium

...happen by the end of the year," Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko told reporters. "The engineers have to reach their findings." Russia's nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko had said in February that the Bushehr launch was scheduled for...

In this article: Bushehr, Iran, Moscow, Tehran, Uranium, Dmitry Medvedev, and Barack Obama