- 15:14 04/04/2008
- 14:49 04/04/2008
- 14:46 04/04/2008
Venezuela is in talks with Moscow for a loan of about $800 million to partially finance the purchase of four Kilo-class Project 636 diesel submarines, Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Friday.
- 13:58 04/04/2008
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Friday he hoped the NATO-Russia Council session in Bucharest, Romania, would help to overcome existing disagreements between Moscow and the alliance.
- 13:48 04/04/2008
Russian energy giant Gazprom took 19th place in the 2008 list of the world's top 2000 companies compiled by U.S. magazine Forbes.
- 13:34 04/04/2008
A propylene explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in Budennovsk in southern Russia's Stavropol Territory, has left two workers dead and three injured, local emergencies service said Friday.
- 13:09 04/04/2008
Slovakia, who wants to retrieve 49% of its shares in pipeline operator Transpetrol, could subsequently transfer the stake to Russia, a Russian delegate said.
- 12:57 04/04/2008
The Olympic torch of the Summer Games in Beijing arrived Friday in Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg as part of its mammoth, five-continent relay.
- 12:36 04/04/2008
NATO leaders at a summit in Bucharest issued a statement urging Russia to lift its moratorium on the CFE Treaty and to consider proposals made by the alliance.
- 12:25 04/04/2008
Russia and NATO have agreed on land transits for non-lethal freight through Russian territory to NATO troops deployed in Afghanistan, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Friday.
- 12:09 04/04/2008
- 10:43 04/04/2008
Russian oil company Yukos, declared bankrupt in a $30 billion tax claim, has overpaid its tax bill by more than 90 billion rubles ($3.8 billion), the Vedomosti business daily reported on Friday.
- 10:29 04/04/2008
- 10:10 04/04/2008
Police have arrested a Chechen militant who allegedly took part in the cold-blooded execution of captive Russian soldiers during a raid on a Daghestan village in 1999, the Chechen interior minister said Friday.
- 09:59 04/04/2008
- 09:57 04/04/2008
