Chechens fighting in Syria are mercenaries, says Kadyrov
byDubai, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov has dismissed Chechens fighting in Syria as merely mercenaries “fighting for money and not an…
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Pakistan may use LeT for proxy war in Kashmir: US report
byWashington: Raising the spectre of a renewed conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, a US study has warned that Islamabad may well turn…
Advanced Sukhoi to be unveiled in Paris show
byMoscow: Russia will unveil its most advanced aircraft, the Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker fighter jet and the Ka-52 Alligator helicopter gunship, at the Paris air…
WWII arsenal found in Russian apartment
byKaliningrad, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) An arsenal of World War II firearms have been discovered in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad in an apartment…
Moscow has world’s worst traffic
byMoscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) With its notorious traffic jams, the Russian capital has topped a “congestion index” among 161 cities with a population…
Putin to take up literature, sports after quitting politics
byMoscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Literature, sports, jurisprudence and public projects will top the list of Vladimir Putin’s interests when he decides to quit…
Syria needs negotiations to stop ‘massacre’: Putin
byMoscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia is not looking to oust Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and wants the conflicting parties to negotiate and stop…
Russian officer jailed for $1.5 mn fraud
byMoscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A former Russian Federal Security Service (or FSB) officer has been sentenced by a Moscow court to two years…
‘Star Trek’ didn’t excite me: Chris Pine
byLos Angeles: Actor Chris Pine reveals he wasn’t too excited with the offer to feature in 2009 film “Star Trek”, initially. He says the…
Matthew McConaughey to work in ‘Interstellar’
byLos Angeles, April 6 (IANS) Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey will star in Christopher Nolan’s new sci-fi film “Interstellar”, reports femalefirst.co.uk. The time-travelling movie is…