More abortions are recorded in Russia than live births. The situation has improved since Soviet times, when women terminated seven pregnancies on average during their lifetimes. But abortion remains the country's main method of birth control.

After three victories at Euro 2008, and at times scintillating soccer, the Russian national side faced a reality check as they came up against a strong Spanish side in the semifinals of Euro 2008 in Vienna on Thursday night, going down 3-0.

Spain won the Euro 2008 semifinal soccer game against Russia in a very decent match 3-0. Spain really deserved the victory with the it played against Russia and now going to Final to meet Germany.

Until Wednesday night, Austria's Alpine ski resort of Innsbruck was predominantly known in Russia as the city that twice hosted the Winter Olympics back in 1964 and 1976. On Wednesday, Guus Hiddink's squad made sure their compatriots remembered the place for good as the venue of the country's biggest football success since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Russia and Israel will be able to switch to a visa-free regime at the end of September, the Russian embassy in Israel said on Sunday.

The national soccer team of Russia played a wonderful match against the soccer team of Netherlands going to the Euro 2008 Semi-Final game as the winner.

Over the festival's seventy-nine days there will be over one hundred and twenty operas, ballets and concerts. In its 225th year, the theatre will pay tribute to great composers and performers of the Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad, all those illustrious, talented artists whose names are firmly fixed in the history of the Mariinsky Theatre and world music.

In Germany for his first European trip as Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev sternly warned on June 5 that further expansion of NATO would damage the West's relationship with Moscow.

The bodies of two more miners that were trapped in a coalmine in west Siberia, have been found, bringing the death toll to three, a deputy regional governor said on Sunday.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of a client center in the city of Perm in the Russian Federation as part of the company's regional expansion.

The winner of Eurovision 2008 song festival with the majority of votes became Dima Belan from Russia. Dima's Eurovision winning was much deserved.

HP and Foxconn today held a groundbreaking ceremony in St. Petersburg to celebrate the planned construction of a 32,000-square-meter manufacturing facility intended for the production of HP PCs in Russia in connection with a joint venture agreement to invest $50 million in Russia.