- 22:30 13/08/2008
Russia's foreign minister criticized on Wednesday comments made by the U.S. president on fighting in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia as being based on unverified reports. 
- 22:10 13/08/2008
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that a decree issued by the Ukrainian president requiring prior notification for naval movements of Russia's Black Sea Fleet is a 'new serious anti-Russian step.'
- 21:34 13/08/2008
Russian heiress Daria Zhukova, the girlfriend of billionaire Roman Abramovich, has organized the first retrospective by artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, which is due to open in Moscow next month, the project curator said Wednesday.
- 21:31 13/08/2008
Four Russian ships have returned from waters off Abkhazia to their Black Sea Fleet base in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, a crewman said on Wednesday.
- 20:54 13/08/2008
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that he planned to send Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to France and then to Georgia.
- 20:36 13/08/2008
- 19:46 13/08/2008
Russian peacekeepers shot down a Georgian unmanned reconnaissance plane over the capital of breakaway South Ossetia on Wednesday, a Defense Ministry official said.
- 19:37 13/08/2008
Russian peacekeepers are removing equipment and weapons from an arms depot discovered near the Georgian town of Gori, close to the border with South Ossetia, a peacekeeping spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 18:59 13/08/2008
Four Russian ships have returned from waters off Abkhazia to their Black Sea Fleet base in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, a crewman said Wednesday.
- 18:33 13/08/2008
- 18:27 13/08/2008
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Russia had no choice but to launch a counterattack to Georgia's offensive in breakaway South Ossetia, but it is still possible to find a political solution to the crisis.
- 18:04 13/08/2008
Russia's Dmitry Sautin and Yury Kunakov won silver on Wednesday in the men's synchronized 3m springboard at the Beijing Olympics.
- 17:51 13/08/2008
Georgia's criticism of the deployment of Russian peacekeepers to Abkhazia was slammed Wednesday by Moscow, which called Tbilisi's declaration that Russian troops were occupying its breakaway region an attempt to plot an armed attack against Abkhazia.
- 17:50 13/08/2008
- 17:22 13/08/2008
- 17:20 13/08/2008
A top Russian military official said on Wednesday that 74 Russian military personnel died during recent fighting with Georgian troops in breakaway South Ossetia.
- 16:15 13/08/2008
Russia's Oxana Slivenko won an Olympic silver medal at the Beijing games on Wednesday in the women's 69kg weightlifting event with host nation China taking yet another gold.
- 16:08 13/08/2008
- 15:05 13/08/2008
The International Space Station's orbit has been adjusted to prepare for the docking of the Progress M-65 cargo module, due to be launched September 10, Russia's Mission Control Center said Wednesday.
