- 21:59 23/05/2008
A local law enforcement source said all of the 410 air-to-air missiles being stored at the depot had exploded. No official information on the missiles has been released. 
- 21:51 23/05/2008
A Russian Rokot carrier rocket with three military satellites and one civilian satellite has been successfully launched from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia, the Russian Space Forces said on Friday.
- 21:20 23/05/2008
A rotation of Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zone of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia will be conducted between May 25 and June 2, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
- 21:16 23/05/2008
Ukraine must repay its debt from previous years for direct Russian natural gas supplies to be launched without intermediaries, the Russian prime minister said on Friday.
- 20:55 23/05/2008
Russia and China want an international agreement to be drafted banning the deployment of weapons in space, the countries' leaders said on Friday in a joint declaration after talks in Beijing.
- 19:43 23/05/2008
- 19:10 23/05/2008
The EU could issue a mandate for negotiations with Russia on a new partnership deal at a meeting of foreign ministers on May 26, Russia's envoy to the 27-nation bloc said on Friday.
- 18:53 23/05/2008
A fire that broke out on Friday at a weapons depot near St. Petersburg has been put out, and no casualties have been reported, a Russian Air Force spokesman said on Friday.
- 18:39 23/05/2008
Russia and Ukraine are ready to start talks on signing a strategic contract on natural gas supplies, the two countries' prime ministers said at a meeting in Minsk on Friday.
- 18:11 23/05/2008
A radical Estonian nationalist, known for his threats to blow up the Bronze Soldier statue in Tallinn last year, has dismantled two other Soviet-era war memorials in the capital, national TV reported on Friday.
- 16:56 23/05/2008
- 16:43 23/05/2008
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that the future development of the CIS group of ex-Soviet states depends primarily on its dominant member, Russia.
- 16:39 23/05/2008
Russia and China have spoken out in favor of finding a peaceful solution to the North Korean nuclear problem, the presidents of the two countries said in a joint declaration on Friday.
- 16:24 23/05/2008
The presidents of Russia and China denounced in a joint statement on Friday U.S. moves to establish a global missile defense system, saying the plans threaten the global strategic balance.
- 16:04 23/05/2008
- 15:53 23/05/2008
Hackers attacked Russian nuclear power websites that allow users to check radiation background amid false rumors of a nuclear accident in northwest Russia, a nuclear industry official said on Friday.
- 15:49 23/05/2008
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- 15:21 23/05/2008
Computer hackers infiltrated the Chechen governmental youth website on Friday and posted messages insulting the Russian government, a spokesman for the youth affairs committee said.
