- 22:17 11/03/2008
- 22:08 11/03/2008
Kiev refuses to pay over $179.5 per 1,000 cubic meters for the Russian natural gas it has consumed in 2008, the Ukrainian premier said on Tuesday ahead of talks with Russia on a long-running gas dispute.
- 21:35 11/03/2008
Moscow would like to see the signing of a treaty on cooperation in Afghanistan between NATO and the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 19:41 11/03/2008
A Russian first deputy prime minister said on Tuesday that Russia has no territorial claims to Antarctica, and will strictly abide by an international convention on the continent.
- 19:06 11/03/2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on the international community on Tuesday to launch new talks with Iran over the country's controversial nuclear program.
- 19:02 11/03/2008
- 18:58 11/03/2008
A Russian first deputy premier, in Antarctica on Tuesday to test the Glonass satellite system, has said that President Vladimir Putin's dog will get the satellite navigation collar it was earlier promised.
- 18:02 11/03/2008
- 17:57 11/03/2008
A Russian first deputy prime minister said on Tuesday Russia has no territorial claims to Antarctica, and will strictly abide by an international convention on the continent.
- 16:56 11/03/2008
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- 16:36 11/03/2008
Ex-Soviet Central Asian states will begin exporting their natural gas at European-level prices from 2009, Russia's gas monopoly, Gazprom, said on Tuesday.
- 16:17 11/03/2008
Gazprom Neft has approved a mid-term investment program until 2010 at $11 billion, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday.
- 15:24 11/03/2008
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories on March 19-21 to discuss holding a Mideast meeting in Moscow, a ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 14:46 11/03/2008
Russia may conclude negotiations on joining the WTO by the summer and could become a full member in 2009, the director of the Information Bureau on Russia's Accession to the WTO said on Tuesday.
- 13:45 11/03/2008
Ukraine and Russia have put off talks on their long-running natural gas dispute by one day until Wednesday, Ukraine's oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Tuesday.
- 13:43 11/03/2008
Russia's MiG has signed a contract with the Indian Defense Ministry to upgrade around 70 MiG-29 fighters, in service since the 1980s, a spokesman for the aircraft manufacturer said on Tuesday.
- 13:42 11/03/2008
- 13:06 11/03/2008
A Russian first deputy premier arrived in Antarctica on Tuesday to look into air transport problems facing polar researchers and to check the Glonass satellite system's operations in low temperatures.
