- 21:55 11/09/2007
Russia has tested a thermobaric bomb that is the most powerful in the world, a top military official said Tuesday.
Known as a vacuum bomb, it uses a fuel-air explosive and can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb, said Alexander Rukshin, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
- 21:51 11/09/2007
- 20:59 11/09/2007
The head of state-run Russian oil transporter Transneft [RTS: TRNF] agreed Tuesday to President Putin's proposal to head the state corporation for the 2014 Winter Olympics preparations in Sochi.
- 19:42 11/09/2007
Over 160 Indian Air Borne troops have arrived in the Pskov Region, in northwestern Russia, to take part in INDRA-2007 joint antiterrorism exercise, a spokesman for the Russian Air Borne Troops said Tuesday.
- 19:15 11/09/2007
Russia plans to allocate 140 billion rubles ($5.5 billion) - 150 billion rubles ($5.8 billion) to develop its electronics industry through 2025, the Industry and Energy Ministry said in a press release Tuesday.
- 19:13 11/09/2007
- 19:02 11/09/2007
This year could be the warmest on record since climate monitoring in the Arctic Ocean began, a meteorological official said Tuesday.
- 18:12 11/09/2007
Russia's cash budget surplus in the first eight months of 2007 reached some 1.4 trillion rubles ($56 billion), the Finance Ministry said Tuesday in preliminary figures on the budget implementation.
- 17:45 11/09/2007
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will arrive in Moscow Tuesday to attend a session of the Iran-Russia Joint Economic Commission, the Iranian agency IRNA said.
- 17:34 11/09/2007
- 17:21 11/09/2007
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will arrive in Russia for an official visit October 11-12, Russian deputy prime minister, Sergei Naryshkin, said Tuesday.
- 16:58 11/09/2007
Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] plans to pick another partner in a project to develop the Shtokman natural gas field in the Arctic, a top manager of the Russian energy giant said Tuesday.
- 16:44 11/09/2007
- 16:36 11/09/2007
Georgia's self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia is demanding $13 billion in compensation from Tbilisi for damage caused during the 1992-1993 war and ensuing blockade.
- 16:29 11/09/2007
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- 15:56 11/09/2007
Indonesia, which accounts for over 40% of the worldwide human death toll from avian influenza, hopes for Russia's assistance in the fight against the disease, an Indonesian minister said Tuesday.
- 15:35 11/09/2007
