MINSK, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Belarus and Ukraine hold a joint tactical peacekeeping exercise. The exercise began on Friday and will end on July 18, the Belarussian Defence Ministry said.

VELIKY NOVGOROD, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Public Chamber's commission for cultural and spiritual heritage will hold on Saturday a special session, devoted to preparations for celebrations to m

MEXICO CITY, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - The presidents of Venezuela andColombia, Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe, on Friday announced a new stage in bilateral relations.

UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - The U.N. General Assembly has decided against putting on its agenda the issue of the Holodomor (famine) in Ukraine.

ALMATY, July 11 (Itar-Tass) -- The Eurasian Development Bank (EADB) begins the second stage of investing in the enlargement of the Ekibastuz state district power plant-2 located in the Pavlodar Reg

GVARDEISKY SETTLEMENT (Kazakhstan), July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Kazakhstan held an active stage of the joint military exercise codenamed "Cooperation-2008" in southern Kazakhstan under the com

GVARDEISKY SETTLEMENT (Kazakhstan), July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Kazakhstan will shortly sign a 3-year protocol on joint exercises of the armed forces of the two countries, Russian Defence Mini

KIEV, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - The ruling coalition in the Ukrainian parliament comprising the Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko (BYT) and OurUkraine-Popular Self-Defence Bloc (NU-NS) should dissolve itself, b

NAZRAN, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Three policemen have been injured as fire was opened on the house of the chief of the local district police department, the Investigation department of the Russian Pro

KRASNODAR, July 11 (Itar-Tass) -- During Thursday's meeting with Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Tatyana Yevsikova, Austrian businessmen have offered to use their systems for the generat