President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday appointed the governor of the vast Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk and former business executive as deputy prime minister and his envoy to the volatile North Caucasus region.
Russian bobsledder Irina Skvortsova, seriously injured during a training incident in Germany, is facing another routine surgery, a spokeswoman for the Russian Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation said Friday.
MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Air traffic in north and central Europe will not run for at least the next 24 hours because of the ash cloud from a volcano eruption in Iceland, Reuters quoted the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, Eurocontrol, as saying.