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0Gypsies live all over the world. According to the 2002 census, the Gypsies population in Russia was 15,000 people.
The number of suspects arrested by British counter-terrorism police over the killing of a soldier in London has risen to seven. Police have made three more arrests in the brutal killing of British soldier Lee Rigby, Metropolitan Police said. The men, in their 20s, were arrested Saturday evening and are being held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, police said.
A French soldier patrolling a business area of western Paris was stabbed in the neck on Saturday by a man who quickly fled the scene and was still being sought, a police source said.
An emergency medical flight has airlifted to Moscow from Dagestan the 3 people wounded as a result of the terrorist act in Makhachkala.
The way global events unfold proves that Russia and the U.S. should cooperate, the former State Secretary and presidential aide on national security, Henry Kissinger, told ITAR-TASS.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for an early accord on civil nuclear cooperation with Tokyo and more Japanese investment ahead of an official visit, reports said Sunday.
Tokyo is trying to re-establish contact with Pyongyang. Japan is willing to consider the possibility of a top-level meeting in the case the situation with the abduction of Japanese citizens is resolved.
An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6 struck southeast Uzbekistan on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
In a highly followed and controversial vote, the Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift its ban on openly gay youths from joining the organization while maintaining its prohibition of openly gay adult leaders.
President Obama gave a wide ranging speech on national security on Thursday at the National Defense University where he outlined his ideas for making America safer. He took time to note that the war against radical Islam is not a fight against the Muslim faith
Famous film-maker Pyotr Todorovsky will be buried at Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow near first Russian President Boris Yeltsin and cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, first secretary of the Russian Film-Makers Union Sergei Lazaruk told Interfax on Monday.
A medical examination has confirmed that the driver who ran over three cyclists on Saturday at the Exhibition Center in Moscow was drunk, reported RIA Novosti with reference to a spokesperson for the press service of the capital’s Ministry of the Interior office.
Patriarch Kirill has unveiled a Moscow statue of St Germogen, a Russian Patriarch who was martyred by invaders from Poland in 1612.
Brazil said Saturday it plans to cancel $900 million (700 million euro) worth of debt in 12 African countries, as part of a broader strategy to boost ties with the continent.
Lebanese banks in Cyprus have wired over $1.2 billion in deposits back to Lebanon in the last two weeks, the Daily Star wrote Saturday.
The European Union will emerge from the current crisis stronger than before if the EU governments pursue their previously set agendas and discard their self-serving interests.
On Thursday, the Japanese stock market experienced its biggest one-day plunge since 2011 caused by an earthquake coupled with a giant tsunami. This time, the cause of the crash had nothing to do with a natural disaster.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
Monsanto, the biotechnology giant for genetically engineering agriculture and food, is under fire of the harsh criticism: millions of activists around the world step up on the streets against it.
“Rutchenko told me how he destroyed the scull of a prisoner by shooting him directly in the face. I remember his words that ‘the German guns are much better than the Soviet ones’”. A journalist from the Voice of Russia radio station in Moscow exposes a war criminal. A now deceased Paris resident Nicholas Rutchenko personally took part in executions of the civilian population during World War II and was directly involved in the murder of Jews in the notorious German Auschwitz concentration camp. Rutchenko died just days before the publication of this article without atoning for his numerous war crimes.
Nepal began a four-day celebration to mark the anniversary of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, in 1953, officials said Sunday.
Two explosions hit Lebanon's capital, at least 5 injured - reports
