The latest: Russia Says More Evidence Needed to Impose Sanctions on Iran

21.04.2006
Russia Says More Evidence Needed to Impose Sanctions on Iran
Russia would approve sanctions on Iran only if it saw hard evidence that Tehran’s nuclear programme was not peaceful, a foreign ministry spokesman has said.

21.04.2006
Major Earthquake Hits Russian Far East
A major earthquake hit a distant region of Russia’s Far East on Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey and Japan’s Meteorological Agency estimated the quake’s magnitude at 7.7 on the Richter scale.

21.04.2006
Gorbachev Receives UN Environmental Award
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, has received the United Nations Environmental Program award.

21.04.2006
Belgian Nationalist Leader to Seek Asylum in Russia
The leader of Belgium’s far-right National Front said he was considering seeking political asylum in Russia after a court this week banned him from public office for 10 years for having published racist pamphlets.

21.04.2006
Top Regional Official Arrested in Russia’ Southern Province
A senior official was suspended from his post and placed under house arrest pending an investigation into his alleged involvement in stealing over 200 million rubles from the republic’s budget.

21.04.2006
New Russian Pipeline Will Not Harm Baikal — Oil Company
The new Russian oil pipeline will not harm Lake Baikal, the Transneft oil company has declared.

21.04.2006
Radiation Leaking Through Crumbling Chernobyl Shelter
A shelter over a reactor in Ukraine’s Chernobyl is crumbling, birds and rainwater are getting inside. Officials worry about what is leaking out too.

21.04.2006
Five People Killed in Moscow Fires
2 people were killed and five injured in a fire that erupted at a student dormitory in the Moscow State University in the early hours of Friday. In a separate development, three were killed in a blaze that broke out at a high-rise residential block in a Moscow suburb.