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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The race is on to discover life in the most remote and extreme environment known on Earth. Russia has set the pace, piercing through Antarctica's icy crust to reach a freshwater lake to try to find ancient or new kinds of life that have adapted to the extremely cold, sunless climate and may shed light on the origins of evolution. Scientists from the United States and Britain ...

National Journal’s National Security Insiders said the Pentagon should not offer bailouts to keep defense companies or capabilities afloat, despite defense-budget cuts and shrinking military markets.

Moscow, Feb 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) In a bid to decongest the city centre, the Moscow city government plans to turn federal government offices based there into hotels after the offices move to outlying areas under a city expansion plan.

Possible military action or future sanctions? MOSCOW- The head of Russia's army said Tuesday he expected a "decision" on Iran to be taken by Western powers this summer in response to Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.

The massive anti-Putin??protest in Moscow early??yesterday seems to have gone off rather smoothly. In stark contrast to the way the have behaved over the past decade, but in keeping with their suddenly??acquired??manners, the OMON and the various parts of the militsia behaved themselves: I haven?t seen any reports of violence or clashes nor any reports ...

In the prelude to March 4 elections in Russia, newscasts are enjoying unaccustomed freedoms as they mix loyal, often staged reports with coverage of the opposition.

Even a short visit to Moscow is enough to convince anyone that Russia is not normal. Its capital is both a symbol of the country's problems and a focus of popular discontent in its own right.

The Moscow city government may turn prisons to offices and hotels after penitentiaries move outside the capital to decongest the territory deficit, Moscow News daily reported on Tuesday referring to a research institute from the Russian Audit Chamber.

Russia's top general said on Tuesday that he expects Iran's enemies to decide in the next few months how to deal with a nuclear programme that the United States and Israel have said they might attack.

Nobody seems to know where he came from, but over the last day or so, a man calling himself Tolibjon Kurbankhanov has become an online sensation in Russia.