MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - As luck would have it, a great many top Russian officials come from St. Petersburg, which means that they can persuade the federal government and local authorities to tackle the problems of the Baltic, Europe"s most polluted inland sea.
MOSCOW, August 12 (RIA Novosti) - President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered measures to track a Finnish-owned cargo ship crewed by Russians, which was last sited off Portugal"s Atlantic coast on August 1 and may have been hijacked, the Kremlin said.
The organizers of the recent terrorist attacks on Moscow and Kizlyar and several suicide bombers have been identified, the Russian counter-terrorism committee said on Friday.