- 12:38 17/04/2006
- 12:38 17/04/2006
- 12:26 17/04/2006
Two police officers and three militants, including a local warlord, have been killed in a shootout during an ongoing security forces operation in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, local police said Monday.
- 12:03 17/04/2006
German Gref confirmed that the IPO, through which Russia's No. 2 crude producer could float shares worth $3bln in Russia and $12-billion on the London Stock Exchange, would take place in the third quarter of 2006, but did not specify details.
- 11:43 17/04/2006
- 10:54 17/04/2006
Russian tennis player Nadezhda Petrova won her second title in two weeks on Sunday, beating third-seeded Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in the final of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 10:37 17/04/2006
The death toll has risen to three people following a blast that destroyed a food stand in St. Petersburg late Sunday, a local emergencies official said Monday.
- 10:25 17/04/2006
"The law itself is neither good, nor bad," Ella Pamfilova, head of the presidential council on civil society institutions and human rights, said. "The point is not the law itself, but its enforcement."
- 09:59 17/04/2006
Yukos ex-boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose nose was slashed Friday by a fellow inmate, has received ambulatory treatment and his condition is monitored by a colony doctor, his lawyer said Monday.
- 09:29 17/04/2006
With almost 100% of Sunday votes counted, 89.76% residents in the Irkutsk Region and 97.79% in the Ust-Ordyn Buryat Autonomous Area voted in favor of the merger, and 9.47% and 1.55%, respectively, voted against, the Irkutsk election commission said.
