The oil export duty of Russia will rise to a record $398.1 per metric ton from June 1, 2008, in line with global market trends.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili that Russia is set on pursuing a more constructive route in bilateral relations, and improving security in the Caucasus region.

The Russian website and newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent has been closed today after it broke the news that the Russian President Vladimir Putin Secretly divorsed his wife and is getting ready to get married with a gymnastic beauty Russian gymnast Alina Kabayeva.

"All elections are an internal affair," Medvedev

YEREVAN (YERKIR)--"Resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh would cause more damage than in 1992-1994, since collisions would take place between well-equipped armies not guerilla troops," said Vladimir Kazimirov, the former Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.

Russia and UK both have major economical interests as more than forty six joint ventures that feel the heat of this diplomatic row, engendered due to Litvinenko's death in Britain. World politics both have pivotal role to play.

Andrei Lugovoi, charged by the UK in poisoning death of Aleksandr Litvinenko, would not be turned over by the Russian prosecutor-general's office, the Interfax news agency reported.

Natalia Vodianova, one of the world's top ten models, currently lives in New York City. She is married to Justin Trevor Berkeley Portman, half-brother of the 10th Viscount Portman, a lord born and bred, and a millionaire to boot.