Russia, Belarus to work out new union programmes

Those will include “such a promising field as nano-technologies”, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday after a meeting of the Union State’s Council of Ministers. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has spoken highly of the recent parliamentary elections in Belarus.

Duma to ratify customs, tariff agt with Belarus soon

Air Force joins command-staff exercises "Stability-2008"

Actor Vladimir Mashkov as Ignat appears on the set of the film under the working title of Poezd directed by Alexei Uchitel. (Photo ITAR-TASS / Yuri Belinsky)

Monument to a student by Akop Khalafyan was erected near the building of the Black Sea Humanitarian Academy. (Photo ITAR-TASS / Viktor Klyushkin)