MOSCOW, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - Patriarch Alexey II for Moscow and All Russia will on Sunday hold a service at the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to mark the 125th anniversary of its sanctific

WASHINGTON, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - U.S. President George W. Bush has received Russian Ambassdor to the United States Yuri Ushakov who has ended his term of office.

ST.PETERSBURG, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - The Bank of Moscow and the Russian Railways joint-stock company have signed a cooperation agreement that will allow financing Russian railway projects by attract

LIMASSOL, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - A third festival of Cyprian-Russian friendship has opened in Cyprus.

ST.PETERSBURG, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - Alexander Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, said that Russia would sign an inter-governmental agreement on the South Stream project

ST. PETERSBURG, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - The World Bank will draw up its vision of strategy for the city's development in the next 20-30 years and will submit it to the government of St.

ST.PETERSBURG, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will continue fundamental research in finding ways to save resources and increase its energy efficiency on the basis of breakthrough solutions aimed at a

ALMATY, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The Kazakh unified power system (KEGOC) has attracted 400 million dollars from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for upgrading electric power

ASHGABAT, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Turkmenistan is intensifying its participation in CIS affairs as a CIS associated member, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said on the eve of an informal

ASHGABAT, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The international exhibition "Search for and prospecting of oil fields, extraction, refining of oil and petrochemistry" has opened in Ashgabat on Friday under the sl