Direct train Irkutsk-St Petersburg to be launched on Monday.
IRKUTSK, the Siberia, May 31 (Itar-Tass) - A new named train will
begin operation between Irkutsk, the Siberia, and St. Petersburg on Monday.
Yerevan to host CSTO Parliamentary Assembly meeting.
MOSCOW, May 31 (Itar-Tass) - A draft European security treaty will be
one of the main topics at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Patriarch Bartholomew urges dissenters to return to canonical church.
STRELNA, near St. Petersburg, May 31 (Itar-Tass) - Archbishop of
Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Sunday urged
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ends visit to Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 31 (Itar-Tass) - The Patriarch of Moscow and All
Russia Kirill and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople
Moscow's 100 most beautiful people to be announce on Sunday.
MOSCOW, May 30 (Itar-Tass) -- The names of Moscow's 100 most beautiful
people will be announced here on Sunday within the framework of the 12th
May Fashion festival.
Georgia to elect self-government on Sunday.
TBILISI, May 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Georgia will hold elections to local
self-governments (Sakrebulo) on Sunday. Also on Sunday, mayor of the
capital city Tbilisi will be elected.
.Putin supports idea of exempting charity funds from taxation.
ST.PETERSBURG, May 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin on Saturday voiced support to the idea of exempting charity
foundations from taxes.
Unified State Exam fails corruption test.
MOSCOW, May 29 (By Itar-Tass World Service writer Lyudmila
Alexandrova) -- Russia's Unified State Exam (USE) has failed the
Moscow, Pyongyang ready to go ahead with consultations-Russian FM.
MOSCOW, May 29 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow and Pyongyang have voiced the
readiness to go ahead with consultations in order to find a way out of the
