Gas extraction from shale deposits, seen as an alternative to conventional gas production, still remains commercially unprofitable, the energy program director of Greenpeace Russia said on Tuesday.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday confirmed plans to launch a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Kourou space center in French Guiana later this year.
Twenty-six members of terrorist groups involved in a deadly attack on a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train in late 2009 have been eliminated and another 14 arrested, Russia"s Federal Security Service (FSB) chief said on Tuesday.