The latest: Iran Finally Accepts Russia’s Enrichment Proposal

26.02.2006
Iran Finally Accepts Russia’s Enrichment Proposal
Iran’s nuclear chief said Sunday that Moscow and Tehran had agreed in principle to set up a joint uranium enrichment venture, Russian news reports said.

26.02.2006
Government Compensates Victims’ Families of Moscow Market Roof Collapse
Moscow government will pay 100,000 rubles (about $3,500) to every family that lost someone in the Basmanny market roof collapse on Thursday.

26.02.2006
Moscow Journalist Found Killed in Apartment
Russian NTV television correspondent Ilya Zimin has been found dead in his apartment in Moscow.

26.02.2006
Girl in Moscow Zoo Loses Finger Stroking “Cuddly” Leopard
A snow leopard in the Moscow Zoo bit a finger off a girl’s hand and ate it when she tried to pat the animal that she thought looked cuddly.

26.02.2006
Tbilisi Denies Rumors of U.S. Using Georgia Bases to Attack Iran
Georgia’s president has refuted recent reports that Georgia might allow the U.S. to use its territories for launching an attack on Iran, and expressed his resentment at the rumors.

26.02.2006
Bird Flu Outbreak Reported in Russia’s Southern Region
A bird flu outbreak has been reported at a poultry farm in the Krasnodar Territory in southern Russia, the Agriculture Ministry has said.

26.02.2006
Russian Lower House Approves Controversial New Anti-Terror Legislation
The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, passed a counter-terrorism bill in the final third reading Sunday. Leading rights group have already voiced concern over some provisions of the draft.

26.02.2006
Moscow Arbitration Court Cancels $5.8 m Claim Against Yukos Subsidiary
The Moscow Court of Arbitration has satisfied a suit filed by Samaraneftegaz, a subsidiary of embattled oil giant Yukos, against an order to pay $5.85 million in additional taxes for January 2005.

26.02.2006
Russian Customer Finds Corpse in Secondhand Car From Japan
A customer from Moscow had his secondhand SUV from Japan delivered to his doors with a rather unpleasant surprise — a partially decomposed dead body of a man inside.

26.02.2006
Russia’s Dementiev Wins Silver in Final Cross Country Race in Turin
Russia’s Eugeni Dementiev won the silver medal in the men’s 50km skate Sunday, the final cross-country race of the Turin Games.

26.02.2006
Death Toll in Moscow Market Collapse Rises to 66
Relatives carried the bodies of victims of a roof collapse at a Moscow market out of a morgue in wooden boxes Saturday to put them on flights home, while the discovery of more corpses in the rubble brought the death toll to 66.

26.02.2006
1.6 Million Abortions Performed in Russia in 2005
Russian women have had 1.611 million abortions in 2005 alone, the Minister for Healthcare and Social Development Mikhail Zourabov has said.

26.02.2006
Pro-Kremlin Chechen Leader Asks CE Human Rights Commissioner to Extradite Berezovsky
Acting Chairman of Chechen Republic Government Ramzan Kadyrov has appealed to the Commissioner for Human Rights from the Council of Europe, Alvaro Gil-Robles, for assistance in bringing home what he called terrorists hiding abroad — militants Udugov, Akhmadov, Zakayev and oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

26.02.2006
US Concerned Over Russia’s Plans to Drill in Antarctic Lake
United States is concerned over Russia’s plans to explore the lake in Antarctica known as Vostok. The experts say Russia uses a fluid infested with microbes that might contaminate the lake.

26.02.2006
New Zealand Vodka Ad Featuring Slavish Russian Wives Enrage Local Russian Women
Russian women living in New Zealand have called offensive a promotion campaign of a vodka company offering Russian bride for Kiwi men.

26.02.2006
Russia Condemns UN Court Refusal to Release Milosevic for Treatment in Moscow
Moscow criticized the UN war crimes tribunal for refusing to grant former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic provisional release from detention for medical treatment in Russia.

26.02.2006
Cathedral Security Gards Attack Top Dutch Embassy Official
Second secretary of the Dutch embassy to Russia has been beaten in Moscow.

26.02.2006
Russia’s Hopes for Hockey Bronze Shattered by Czechs in Turin Olympics
The bronze medallists from four years ago in Salt Lake City, the Russian team were beaten by the Czechs 3-0 in the Olympic men’s tournament Saturday night. Both teams had first-place hopes but had to settle for less after losing in the semifinals a night earlier.

26.02.2006
Top Russian Journalists Come to Defense of Paper Closed Over Cartoon Scandal
Chief Russian media figures have made an open statement against the closure of a newspaper that had published a cartoon featuring Jesus Christ, Moses, Buddha and Mohammed.

26.02.2006
Russian Bobsled Wins Silver in Turin
Russia’s sled driven by Alexander Zoubkov won the silver in the four-man bobsled racing competition at the Winter Olympics in Turin. The gold went to Andre Lange of Germany and the bronze to the Switzerland sled driven by Martin Annen.

26.02.2006
Hazing Victim Honored on Russian Army Day
Greetings flowed from all across the country on Feb. 23, the Day of the Defender of Fatherland in Russia, to a hospital where Andrei Sychyov, having been savagely beaten by other defenders of Fatherland on the New Year’s Eve, was receiving medical treatment.