MOSCOW, July 29 - Continuing growth of prices for jet fuel may bring about a closure of 50 or so percent Russian airlines, experts say.

HANOI, July 28 (Itar-Tass) - Russian businessman Viktor Bout who is suspected of illegal arms trade on Monday was taken to a Bangkok court where the issue of his extradition to the United States wi

TOKYO, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - One of the leading manufacturers of tyres, Japanese Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD, expects to build in 2010 itsplants in Brazil and Russia.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Navy Day will becelebrated in all units and aboard all ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet on Sunday, the information and public relations service of the

MOSCOW, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will celebrate Navy Day, which is one of the first state professional holidays established back in 1939.

PETERSBURG, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - A presentation of Petersburg as a major center of international tourism will be held in Prague on Sunday.

LJUBLJANA, July 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian prisoners of war, who died under the avalanche on the mountain pass Vrsic in 1916, are commemorated in Slovenia.

PLESETSK (Arkhangelsk region), July 27 (Itar-Tass) -- A modernizedcarrier rocket Soyuz-2, which was launched from Russia's northern Plesetsk spaceport for the first time on Saturday, put successful

NAIROBI, July 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Eight foreign oil workers, who were kidnapped earlier on Saturday, were released late in the evening on Saturday in Nigeria, military spokesman Sagir Musa said.

KRASNODAR, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - The major hail damaged about 100houses in the settlement of Guryevskaya, the Belorechensk district of the Krasnodar territory, where the air temperature reached 40