- 13:33 06/06/2008
Mikhail Pogosyan, general director of Russia's Sukhoi aircraft-manufacturing holding will present a new Superjet 100 medium haul passenger airliner at the June 6-8 international economic forum in St. Petersburg, the company said on Friday. 
- 12:38 06/06/2008
Up to 20,000 Russian fans are expected to cheer their side on at Euro 2008, to be jointly held in Austria and Switzerland this month, the head of the Russian Football Union said on Friday.
- 12:02 06/06/2008
Russia could resume the construction of the Rogun hydropower station in Tajikistan, set to become the largest in Central Asia, the Kommersant business daily said on Friday.
- 11:04 06/06/2008
Six forest fires are currently raging on Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, of which some are near oil and gas pipelines, the chief engineer at the regional forest protection aviation base said on Friday.
- 10:27 06/06/2008
Three people have died following a spillage from a chemical facility in northeast China, near the Russian border, the country's official Xinhua news agency reported.
- 09:49 06/06/2008
Three people have been confirmed dead, three injured, and seven missing following a fire on a cargo ship at a military dockyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, a navy spokesman said on Friday.
- 09:22 06/06/2008
More than 13,000 police and Interior Ministry troops will ensure law and order during the three-day International Economic Forum starting on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia's interior minister said.
- 09:19 06/06/2008
A informal summit of post-Soviet CIS countries and a three-day international economic forum will begin in St. Petersburg on Friday.
