- 14:21 23/04/2008
Gunmen opened fire on an Mi-8 helicopter of the Federal Security Service (FSB) on Wednesday morning in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a law enforcement source said. 
- 13:55 23/04/2008
The Iranian government and Russian energy giant Gazprom have reached an agreement on oil and gas cooperation, the national Iranian oil company (NIOC) said on Wednesday.
- 13:32 23/04/2008
Russia has not yet seen readiness from Poland and the Czech Republic to accept new U.S. proposals to admit Russian military personnel to missile shield locations, the foreign minister said.
- 13:09 23/04/2008
TNK-BP Holding, the holding company for Russian-British joint venture TNK-BP [RTS: TNBP], has received back tax claims for 6 billion rubles ($250 million), business daily Vedomosti said on Wednesday.
- 13:02 23/04/2008
On the first anniversary of Boris Yeltsin's death on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin gave a glowing tribute to Russia's first president at a ceremony to unveil a memorial.
- 11:30 23/04/2008
- 10:38 23/04/2008
Deputy prime ministers of the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec), a grouping of ex-Soviet countries, will meet in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss establishing a customs union.
- 10:16 23/04/2008
- 09:45 23/04/2008
The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry has concluded that the recent shooting of a Russian airbase officer by a traffic policeman was lawful, the ministry's security chief said on Wednesday.
- 09:29 23/04/2008
