- 22:08 27/06/2008
- 21:50 27/06/2008
Russian forensic experts confirmed Friday that remains believed to belong to the children of Russia's last tsar were burnt and then soaked in sulfuric acid.
- 21:04 27/06/2008
Relations between Venezuela and Russia have developed into a strategic partnership, the country's vice president said Friday.
- 21:03 27/06/2008
A light cargo plane, making an aerial photography flight, crashed in the Moscow Region on Friday shortly after a take-off, killing all five people onboard, the emergencies ministry said.
- 20:12 27/06/2008
None of the current European organizations, including the OSCE, the EU and NATO, is capable of solving Europe's security problems, the Russian president said Friday.
- 19:22 27/06/2008
Russian energy giant Gazprom elected First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov chairman of the board at its annual meeting on Friday, a Gazprom spokesman said.
- 19:17 27/06/2008
Russian experts have said a space mission should be sent in 2012 to the Apophis asteroid to establish whether it will collide with Earth, adding that the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft could be used for that purpose.
- 18:06 27/06/2008
Moscow has denied discussing with Tbilisi the division of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia into Russian and Georgian spheres of influence, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
- 17:55 27/06/2008
The Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services (ILS) has started preparations for the first launch of a Proton-M rocket since one partially failed in March, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said Friday.
- 17:49 27/06/2008
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- 17:03 27/06/2008
Russia and the European Union outlined areas of cooperation at a summit in West Siberia on Friday, including human rights, energy, and regional conflicts.
- 16:01 27/06/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry welcomed on Friday the demolition of a cooling tower in North Korea's main nuclear reactor complex at Yongbyon.
- 15:55 27/06/2008
Russia and the European Union have announced in a joint statement the start of talks on a new cooperation agreement as an EU-Russia summit ended in Western Siberia.
- 15:12 27/06/2008
- 14:46 27/06/2008
Abkhazia's leadership considers Tbilisi's proposed plan to divide the unrecognized republic into zones of Russian and Georgian influence to be "insane," the republic's foreign minister said on Friday.
- 14:04 27/06/2008
Russia's parliament voted down on Friday a widely criticized bill that would have allowed the authorities to close media outlets prosecuted for libel.
- 12:36 27/06/2008
Russia's parliament voted down on Friday a widely criticized bill that would have allowed authorities to close media outlets for libel.
- 12:27 27/06/2008
Gazprom is proposing opening a chain of filling stations using natural gas as an alternative car fuel across Europe, the chief of the Russian energy giant said on Friday.
