ASTANA, April 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Newly appointed Kazakh Prime Minister
Karim Masimov should continue social and economic programs, which are

VLADIVOSTOK, April 8 (Itar-Tass) - Representatives of the Japanese media have had an opportunity to get acquainted with the work of the Russian ship Landysh for the processing of radioactive waste.

BEIJING, April 8 (Itar-Tass) -- The joint Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
of the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - will exceed

HANOI, April 8 (Itar-Tass) -- The Sverdlovsk Region and Vietnam have
substantial potentialities to step up cooperation in a number of

LONDON, April 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian engineers are urgently working
to repair a landing strip on drifting ice in the Arctic Ocean to allow

TOKYO, April 8 (ITAR-TASS) -- At least two people were killed and 132
injured in a new strong earthquake that jolted Japan late on Thursday, the
national police said.

TOKYO, April 8 (Itar-Tass) -- The death toll of the devastating
earthquake and tsunami in Japan last month came close to 12.7 thousand

MOSCOW, April 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia and Poland will continue to
improve bilateral relations despite existing disagreements, Deputy Foreign

MOSCOW, April 8 (Itar-Tass) -- A senior United Russia official quit
the ruling party, which said it did not regret the resignation and there
was no political intrigue behind it.

WASHINGTON (Itar-Tass) - The International Monetary Fund
(IMF) forecasts a 4.8- percent economic growth in Russia this year which