MOSCOW, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Vice Premier Igor Sechin will visit China on July 26-27, the Russian governmental press service said on Friday.

DUSHANBE, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - Foreign ministers of the ShanghaiCooperation Organization'scontries have drafted documents and agenda of the upcoming SCO summit due in Dushanbe on August 28, Russia

NEW YORK, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - American companies have "displayed an interest" in cooperating with the state-run nanotechnology corporation - Rosnanotech, however, "no concrete applications have b

MOSCOW, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for working out of a system of measures for the attraction into Russia of leading scientific personnel.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - There has been anearthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 points on the Richter scale near the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

VOLGOGRAD, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - There was a gas pipeline explosion in the Novonikolayevsky district of the Volgograd region near a railway. The train traffic was stopped due to the incident.

YEREVAN, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - The Armenian authorities are full of determination to eliminate the aftermath of the March events in Yerevan and return the country's political life to the normal cou

MOSCOW, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - Representatives of countries member of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) at the level of the deputy foreign, defence, finance ministers and secretarie

KRASNODAR, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom at a meeting of its board of directors in October will make a number of decisions on "issues of cooperation with Ukraine and Bela

DUSHANBE, July 25 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss in Dushanbe on Friday preparations for a meeting of the Council of the Heads of States of the Shanghai Cooperatio