Fights break out on the ice in American hockey constantly but it was Russian ice hockey that made the news today with a game cancellation due to fighting. Players of West Siberia's Omsk Avangard and Vityaz Chekhov from the Moscow region started a fight minutes after the game started. The first fight was followed by another scuffle which prompted an immediate cancellation of the hockey match.

Spain powered through Group A undefeated to earn a spot in the 22nd Hyundai Hopman Cup final on Saturday. They had to wait till play was completed on Friday to see who they would face in the final session. Three teams from Group B went into Friday with a chance to play Spain for the diamond ball trophy.

Kazakhstan is seeded number eight of eight teams for the 22nd Hyundai Hopman Cup tennis tournament. On Wednesday, they did not play like the last seed when they defeated number two seed Russia 2-1 during Group B play.

Russia and Germany kicked off the Group B play for the 22nd Hyundai Hopman Cup tennis tournament on Monday. The number two seed Russia just did survive the tough number five seed Germany to start off the new year of tennis with a 2-1 victory.

No one seriously believes we would send astronauts to land on an asteroid on a collision course with Earth to try to blow it up (a la Armageddon and Deep Impact). That said, it doesn't mean we would just stand still if we detected on coming toward us, and on Wednesday, Russia announced that NASA wouldn't stand alone, either.

According to NY Times The United State of America and Russia are very close to a new nuclear deal that will cut the arsenal of nuclear bombos and pave way to nuke-free world. However, making the deal is the easy part.

Russian president Dmitri Medvedev declared December 7th a day of mourning after the huge fire tragedy claimed lives of 109 russian citiznes in the city of Perm. Russia's regional prosecutors have been told to organize urgent nationwide inspections of public gathering venues, to avoid a repeat of Saturday's fire in a nightclub which killed at least 109 people.

Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov, who was the recipient of two firsts as a cosmonaut, has died. He was 83. The Russian Space Agency said in a statement Sunday that Feoktistov died of unspecified causes late Saturday in Moscow.

In today's FIFA's World Cup qualifiers Cameroon vs Morocco game is over where Cameroon leads the way 2:0. In Moscow another heated game is nearing conclusion where Russia is earning its right to go to South Africa next year to participate in FIFA's World Cup 2010.

Large-scale joint military exercises being held by Russian and Belarus are not aimed at anyone and are purely of a defense nature, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.

US Department of Defense press official said it will adjust its plans for European missile defense system. The positive reaction from Russia did not delay. Moscow official said that it will welcome the change in U.S. missile defense shield program. Voice of Russia reports.