- 22:26 18/07/2008
Russia's president on Friday urged Iran to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its nuclear program, the Kremlin press service said. 
- 22:14 18/07/2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after meeting with his German counterpart in Moscow that work must continue to convince the sides in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict to begin direct talks.
- 21:19 18/07/2008
Russia's foreign minister said on Friday that a German plan for the resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict was a step in the right direction, but dismissed a proposed agreement on the return of Georgian refugees to Abkhazia as unrealistic.
- 20:44 18/07/2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit China on July 21-22 to sign a document delineating a long-disputed border between the two countries, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry voiced on Friday its concerns over the U.S.-Ukrainian Sea Breeze naval exercises currently underway in the Black Sea.
- 20:32 18/07/2008
Moscow has called on Japan not to provoke public hostility toward Russia by publishing school textbooks showing the Southern Kuril islands as territory unlawfully occupied by Russia.
- 19:55 18/07/2008
Russia insists that Ukrainian customs authorities return video tapes confiscated from a Russian TV reporter at Kiev's airport, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
- 18:49 18/07/2008
Bulgaria has returned to Russia a spent nuclear fuel consignment from a research reactor, the Bosnian news agency SRNA said on Friday, citing Bulgaria's nuclear control agency.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will arrive in Moscow on July 21 to discuss military and economic ties with the Russian leadership, a Spanish news agency said on Friday, citing Venezuelan officials.
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Prosecutors in the northeast Russian city of Murmansk said on Friday that a planned series of Jehovah's Witnesses services in a stadium cannot go ahead, as they contravene a law on the use of sports facilities.
- 15:54 18/07/2008
Russia's president has signed a law allowing the government to allocate strategic oil and gas deposits on the continental shelf without auctions, the Kremlin said on Friday.
- 15:42 18/07/2008
A Russian aircraft engine manufacturer has been banned from using dancers to attract guests to its stand at the Farnborough International Air Show in southern England, a spokesman for the company said.
- 15:42 18/07/2008
Abkhazia has rejected a German-proposed peace plan on the resolution of the breakaway Georgian republic's conflict with Tbilisi, the Abkhaz leader said on Friday.
- 14:51 18/07/2008
Archaeologists in northwest Russia have discovered a chess piece dating back to the late 14th century, a spokesman for local archaeologists said on Friday.
