Alexei Pushkov, the head of the State Duma committee on international affairs, believes that negotiations involving leading countries similar to the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear problem should be organized to settle the "North Korea problem.

"I believe we now need to think about conducting the same negotiations on North Korea...

The radiation levels and other background indicators on the territory of Russia are normal in regard of the reports on a hydrogen bomb test conducted by North Korea, Anna Popova, the head of Rospotrebnadzor and Russia\'s chief sanitary inspector, told Interfax on Wednesday.

"Our permanent monitoring, which we conduct regardless of...

Scientists at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechano-chemisty (ISSCM) in Novosibirsk are trying to create energy from agricultural and forestry waste. They are developing a new fuel made from plant biomass with heat of combustion levels similar to brown coal.

Researchers think this is achievable by increasing the content of...

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“Moscow is extremely concerned over information that has appeared that North Korea has tested a hydrogen bomb,” Peskov said.

“Pres...

Vladimir Komoyedov, the head of the State Duma committee on defense, believes the reports on a hydrogen bomb test by North Korea should incentivize negotiations between the countries that have nuclear weapons.

"It has to be taken into account that such tests are a danger not only to the neighbors, but also to the whole world," Komoyedov...

The relations between Russia and North Korea make it possible to assume that the North Korean nuclear weapons tests do not pose a threat to our country, unlike the rest of the world, Colonel-General Viktor Yesin, former head of the Main Headquarters of the Strategic Missile Forces, said.

"I don't see a direct threat to Russia from the...

Moscow is convinced that, if the fact if the test is confirmed, it will become a new step taken by Pyongyang on the path of nuclear weapons development, which is a massive breach of international law and Un Security Council resolutions.

"Such actions may aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which is already characterized by...

Despite the current gloom surrounding Russian athletics, which is currently mired in a doping scandal that has seen the country banned from international competition and which threatens its participation in the 2016 Rio Olympics, sports fans found something to cheer in late 2015, when Russian athletes set two new world records.

On Nov....

1) Combating ISIS from within

On the eve of the Paris attacks in November, ISIS extremists published a video in Russian: “Soon, very soon,” it said, “there will be a sea of blood.” Is there an possibility that terrorists from the jihadist group will reach Russia and harm its citizens not only abroad? Why are Russians fighting for ISIS? W...