Brussels - NATO and its Russian-dominated counterpart, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), should work together to form a new security system in Europe, the head of the CSTO said in Brussels on Wednesday.

"Nowadays, the system of the balance of power in Europe is failing. The security architecture has to be re-made," CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha told journalists in Brussels.

St Petersburg - Portugal defender Fernando Meira leaves Galatasaray Istanbul for Zenit St Petersburg with immediate effect, the UEFA Cup holders from Russia announced on Wednesday.

Zenit said on their website that Meira, 30, has signed a three-year-contract. The transfer fee has been estimated at 6 million euros (7.6 million dollars).

Meira joined the Turkish top club Galatasaray last summer after more than six years at Germany's VfB Stuttgart, but has fallen out of favour there recently.

New Delhi: At a recent meet in New Delhi, Gary Kasparov the famous Russian chess grandmaster, posed a question to the former President of Pakistan Gen. Pervez Musharraf, that for terrorism to grow in a big way in Pakistan, it needs wherewithal-resources to buy weapons, sustain itself and then attack.

Kasparov likened it to a tree. You can not control a nasty tree by only cutting its branches or trimming it—you need to cut the source of water that sustains it, and asked why Pakistan or Musharraf had failed to stop that supply of water to the tree of terrorism.

Subex Limited, a global provider of operations support system (OSS) solutions, has signed a reseller agreement with JSC "Company TransTeleKom'' (TTK), one of Russia's top three fixed network providers.

Under the deal, TTK and Subex would jointly provide managed services covering fraud management and revenue assurance to growing operators in Russia.

It may be noted that Nikira Fraud Management System and Moneta Revenue Assurance System, are key components of the Subex ROC - Revenue Operations Center.

Moscow  - Two crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) opened the hatches to the vacuum Tuesday to set up a bio experiment outside their orbiting home.

US Commander Mike Fincke and Russian flight engineer Yury Lonchakov began the six-hour space walk at 7:20 Moscow time (4:20 GMT).

"We have an important and very interesting mission. Today we will set up European scientific equipment, also we will undertake repairs and photograph various parts of the ISS," Lonchakov was quoted by news agency Interfax as saying during an exchange with the mission control centre Tuesday.

Moscow - Russia's Eurovision entry has ignited criticism among home fans of the song contest, adding to sparks of controversy that have built around the competition to be hosted by Moscow this year.

Bloggers and newspapers Tuesday slammed Russia's choice as un- Russian.

A Ukrainian singer, Anastasia Prikhodko, won over the Russian jury and television voters on the weekend with a love song "Mamo" which was performed partly in her native tongue.