- 19:39 04/08/2008
Russia's prime minister has approved a 90 billion ruble ($3.83 billion) federal program to train scientists in Russia from 2009-2013, the government's press service said on Monday. 
- 18:00 04/08/2008
Russia will launch on August 6 a converted RS-20 Voyevoda intercontinental ballistic missile to put a Thai earth observation satellite into orbit, the Strategic Missile Forces said on Monday.
- 17:23 04/08/2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that although significant progress has been made in counter-terrorism efforts, the country still faces a major terrorist threat.
- 16:50 04/08/2008
Russia may resume a military presence in Cuba in response to growing military-political pressure from the West, a Russian political analyst said on Monday.
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Russia counts on the United States to exert a positive influence on Georgia following the latest surge in violence in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, a Russian diplomat said on Monday.
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- 15:17 04/08/2008
Russia counts on the United States to exert a positive influence on Georgia following the latest surge in violence in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, a Russian diplomat said on Monday.
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TNK-BP Chief Financial Officer James Owen has resigned amid an ongoing shareholder dispute, the Russian-British oil company said Monday.
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More than 2,000 homes remain flooded in the six worst-hit areas in western Ukraine, the country's Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday.
- 12:00 04/08/2008
Russia's largest diamond producer Alrosa [RTS: ALRS] sold diamonds worth more than $31 million at a special international auction Monday, the auction's organizers said.
- 11:38 04/08/2008
President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela had taken delivery of 24 Russian Sukhoi fighter jets, and warned the U.S. Fourth Fleet that his country is ready to defend itself.
- 11:09 04/08/2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist and historian who told the world about the horrors of Soviet labor camps, died at 89 in Moscow Sunday morning.
- 10:39 04/08/2008
A group of Russian Air Force personnel will fly to Sudan later Monday as part of a scheduled rotation of Russia's contribution to the UN mission in Sudan, a service spokesman said.
