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A chronology of key events: 1237-40 - Mongols invade Russia, destroying all of its main cities except Novgorod and Pskov; Tatars establish the empire of the Golden Horde in southern Russia.

XIII Century is a 3D RTS that combines Risk-style strategy with real-time tactical action, immersing you in a medieval world of knights, nomads, courageous deeds and internal wars.

Administrators at Russiaa TMs border Pechory area have launched a crackdown on officials who illegally hold Estonian passports in secret.

Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:29 pm Press Release: International Aids Society Global Fund Extension of HIV Prevention Programmes for People at High Risk for HIV in Russia Will Save Thousands of Young Lives International AIDS Society and International Harm Reduction Association Call on Russian Government to Simultaneously Expand Access to HIV ...

Officials in the northwestern Russian city of Pskov have closed all schools and universities due to a flu outbreak, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

The town of Pechory was founded as a posad near a famous Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery in the 16th century and soon developed into an important trading place.

The Russian Defence Ministry has revealed that an army OTR-21 Tochka-U ballistic missile accidentally self-destructed during live-firing exercises on 28 October in the northwest of the country.

The works of Russian pastellist Lilia Momotova will be on exhibit at WVTF in Roanoke from Nov 2 -Nov 30.

MOSCOW: A Tochka-U short-range ballistic missile self-destructed on Thursday shortly after a practice launch at training grounds in northwestern Russia, the Defense Ministry said.

SCAREMONGERING is where defence-planning and politics overlap. Big military exercises in western Russia and Belarus, which finished earlier this month, were based on the following improbable scenario: ethnic Poles in western Belarus rise up and "terrorists" from Lithuania attack the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Construction of the $800-million container terminal at Ust Luga port has been halted due to differences among the shareholders of the National Container Company .

The Board of directors of OJSC "Company "Ust-Luga" at the session on August, 10th made a decision to pass the extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the form of correspondence voting.

Ivanov said the new heavy fuel terminal at the Russian port of Ust-Luga would replace the Estonian transshipment route.

Russia's oil pipeline monopoly launched on Wednesday the construction of the second stage of the Baltic Pipeline System, designed to diversify the country's oil exports.

Dr. Kurt Fleckenstein's installation 'Red Cube of Freedom' delivers a strong political message, according to the German-born artist.

Logs keystrokes, records applications being used and Web sites being visited, keeps track of instant messenger conversations and takes periodic screenshots PSKOV, RUSSIA: REFOG has announced the release of REFOG Employee Monitor, a software-only solution to monitor employees' activities.