- 22:10 07/05/2008
Russia's government will have a larger number of deputy prime ministers if Vladimir Putin is appointed premier, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said on Wednesday after Putin held consultations with MPs. 
- 22:09 07/05/2008
- 22:02 07/05/2008
Georgia wants friendly relations with Russia and is ready to have a 'flexible policy' with Moscow, but is not set to give up its national security, the country's deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday.
- 21:52 07/05/2008
- 21:44 07/05/2008
Tehran hopes the new Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, will continue the policies of his predecessor Vladimir Putin regarding Iran, the Islamic Republic's ambassador said Wednesday.
- 20:49 07/05/2008
The widow of Alexander Litvinenko, who died of radioactive poisoning in London in November 2006, said Wednesday she hopes the mystery of his death will be solved under the new Russian president.
- 20:45 07/05/2008
- 18:32 07/05/2008
The Council of the European Union expects that a deeper partnership will be established with Russia following the inauguration of the new President, Dmitry Medvedev, on Wednesday, a spokesman said.
- 18:16 07/05/2008
- 17:46 07/05/2008
Georgia's self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia will eventually achieve independence just like Serbia's Kosovo gained sovereignty in February, the president of the unrecognized republic said on Wednesday.
- 17:43 07/05/2008
- 16:55 07/05/2008
The Red Cross has started distributing Russian humanitarian aid to Serbs in Gracanica, some five kilometers from Kosovo's capital Pristina.
- 16:37 07/05/2008
- 16:29 07/05/2008
Dmitry Medvedev, who was sworn in as Russian president and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces on Wednesday, has been given control of the country's so-called "nuclear briefcase."
- 16:21 07/05/2008
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, who was inaugurated earlier in the day, has submitted Vladimir Putin's candidacy for prime minister to the State Duma, a presidential spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 14:22 07/05/2008
- 14:19 07/05/2008
Russia's Cabinet formally resigned after Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as Russia's new president on Wednesday.
- 14:04 07/05/2008
Promises made by U.S. leaders cannot be trusted, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph published on Wednesday.
- 13:35 07/05/2008
U.S. authorities have officially brought charges against an alleged Russian arms dealer who they claimed attempted to sell weapons to a terrorist organization in Colombia, a senior U.S. drug enforcement official has said.
