In 2008 Russian singer Dima Bilan became the Eurovision winner and Moscow was appointed the next location for the contest. That turned to be the political reason why Georgia refused to participate in Eurovision after the armed conflict in South Ossetia in August.

On January 6 the Israeli Air Force attacked the building in the centre of Gaza where the office of Russian TV channel “Rusiya al-yaum” was situated.

Since January 2009 drugs sold in some Tallin drugstores will contain information lists in the Estonian and Russian languages.

Russia is not going to give up test launches of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, as deputy chief of the Russian General Staff of Armed Forces said on Sunday.

The Estonian Ministry of Justice has refused to translate the laws into Russian in 2009 explaining that the lack of finance is the reason, EER Uudised reports. This means that nearly 400,000 citizens will not have access to the legal acts in their native language.

Russia is going to evacuate its citizens from the Gaza Strip later this week as the Israeli military operation there continues for the fourth day.

Five people were injured in a bus crash near Azerbaijan's capital, local TV reported on Tuesday.

Russian captain Nikita Filatov scored twice to lead his team to a 5-2 win Sunday over Finland at the world junior hockey championship.

January 1st may see a Russian ban on American-grown chicken.

7 Russian tourists died and others were injured in a bus crash on a mountain road in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.