KAZAN, May 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Austrian President Heinz Fischer will
visit predominantly Muslim Republic of Tatarstan on Friday.

MOSCOW, May 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian and Austrian railway authorities
agreed on Thursday to continue work on the construction of a broad-gauge

MINSK, May 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia is ready to grant Belarus a
commodity loan for the Russian construction of a nuclear power plant in

ST. PETERSBURG, May 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The jury in the St. Petersburg
City Court found guilty late on Thursday 12 out of 14 members of the

WARSAW, May 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The Warsaw Court of Appeals on Thursday
confirmed the three-year sentence to convicted Russian "sleeper agent".

NEW YORK, May 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Manhattan Criminal Court in New York
City agreed on Thursday to release Dominique Strauss-Kahn after he

ASTANA (Itar-Tass) - Within the framework of an annual
session of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), an

ASTANA, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - A cultural program of the jubilee summit
of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) slated for June will be the

MOSCOW, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his
Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer will hold talks in Moscow on Thursday.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - The First St. Petersburg
International Legal Forum is opening on Thursday. According to its