- 14:27 16/05/2008
Russia's new Superjet 100 medium-haul passenger airliner will make its first test flight in late May, the head of the Sukhoi aircraft-manufacturing holding said on Friday. 
- 13:54 16/05/2008
The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called BRIC countries, have agreed to hold another meeting in September in New York, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 13:39 16/05/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Zenit St. Petersburg on their recent UEFA Cup victory in the Kremlin on Friday.
- 13:09 16/05/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry criticized as counterproductive on Friday a move by the UN General Assembly to adopt a Tbilisi-sponsored resolution on the return of refugees to Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia.
- 11:45 16/05/2008
All remaining members of the doomsday sect, holed up in a dugout in Russia's central Penza Region since November, have come to the surface, a local authority spokesman said on Friday.
- 10:30 16/05/2008
All remaining members of the doomsday sect, holed up in a dugout in Russia's central Penza Region since November, have come to the surface, a local authority spokesman said on Friday.
- 10:26 16/05/2008
Georgian reintegration minister, Temur Yakobashvili, began a two-day visit to Moscow on Friday, his spokesman said.
- 10:12 16/05/2008
- 09:24 16/05/2008
Two foreign vessels carrying a total of 17 tons of crabs have been stopped in the Pacific Ocean, near Russia's largest island of Sakhalin, a spokesman for the local customs service said on Friday.
