Saratovskaya Oblast', Russia News

SARATOV, Russia - In 1993, Yuri Gaar brought his 74-year-old mother from Kazakhstan back to her homeland here in the meadows and woodland along the Volga River.

Igor Shopen jabbed a branch into the edge of the Volga River, a stone's throw from the Saratov Oil Refinery's rust-covered storage tanks.

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On July 3, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accepted the early resignation of Roman Abramovich, the governor of Chukotka, a region in Russia's Far East.

An unnamed English Premier League club, believed to be Tottenham, have failed in a bid to land Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko.

She has sold 100 million records in her native land and Vladimir Putin adores her.

A self-portrait by Yury Zlotnikov from a series painted between 1960 and 1963 showing at the Russian Museum.

Strategic bombers off the American coast, battleships in the Mediterranean -- the Russian military is displaying its might once again with Moscow pumping billions into new weapons.

The Vienna State Opera brings to the stage one of the less-well-known operatic works by one of the great composers, Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina .

Four Russian strategic bombers are conducting an aerial patrol of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Friday.

PANW Editor's Note: What follows are excerpts from the writings of Brian Bunting who passed away on June 18, 2008 in South Africa.

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine * Pro-Russians in the Ukrainian port Sevastopol defied authorities yesterday by unveiling a statue of the city's Russian founder, Tsarina Catherine the Great, fanning local ethnic tensions.

Four Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers are conducting patrol flights over the Arctic Ocean, a spokesman for Russia's Air Force said on Wednesday.

A court in Russia's Penza Region is expected to decide in late June whether the leader of a doomsday sect that spent half a year underground should be kept in a mental asylum, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

A University of North Texas professor of music recently earned the Russian Gagarin Medal of Honor.

DENTON , Texas -- Dennis Fisher , University of North Texas professor of music in conducting ensembles, recently received the Russian "Gagarin Medal of Honor." The medal is named in honor of cosmonaut Yuri ...

YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO A stand-up entertainer in cuffs that would have pleased Alexandre Benois.

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have begun inspecting the Balakovo nuclear power plant in southern Russia's Saratov Region, a spokesman for the plant said on Tuesday.

“Witnesses [at the Synod in New York] said it took bishops less than 10 minutes to elect the archbishop”

Moscow's Patriarchate said on Tuesday it expected Archbishop Hilarion, the new head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia , to continue the course of the late Metropolitan Laurus, who signed a ... via RIA Novosti

Under Stalin, every one was afraid, including those who made others afraid. &#34One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic&#34 attributed to Stalin What does it mean when we read that 22 million Russians ... via Business Standard