Russia expects to sign the last document required to launch the South Stream gas pipeline construction by the end of April, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a televised interview on Friday that the human rights situation in the country was "far from perfect."
MOSCOW. (Vlad Grinkevich, RIA Novosti economic commentator) - Last weekend marked 90 years since the notorious Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed banning the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcohol for consumption.