- 22:04 20/08/2008
U.S. agreements on deploying elements of its missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic provoke an arms race and do not provide for European security, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. 
- 20:33 20/08/2008
Zenit St. Petersburg have "closed" the issue of the transfer of their star forward Andrei Arshavin to English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur, the soccer club said Wednesday on its official website.
- 18:58 20/08/2008
Around 600 billion rubles ($25 bln) will be earmarked for a series of high-tech programs until 2010, Russia's prime minister said Wednesday at a conference on science and education.
- 18:00 20/08/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's popularity among Russians has increased during the last month, mainly due to his actions in regard to the recent South Ossetian conflict, a survey said on Wednesday.
- 16:54 20/08/2008
The Russian president expressed his condolences on Wednesday to relatives of at least 65 people killed in a series of terrorist blasts in Algeria over the past two days.
- 16:27 20/08/2008
King Abdullah II of Jordan will visit Russia on August 21-24, the Kremlin press service said on Wednesday.
- 16:27 20/08/2008
Russia continues to withdraw its troops from Georgia despite the tense situation in the South Ossetian conflict zone, a senior Russian military official said Wednesday.
- 15:35 20/08/2008
Ukraine will not prevent Russian Black Sea Fleet ships that were involved in a peace enforcement operation in Georgia from returning to their base, Ukraine's defense minister said on Wednesday.
- 15:34 20/08/2008
Russian wrestler Buvaisa Saitiev grabbed gold on Wednesday in the men's 74 kg freestyle event in Beijing becoming three-time Olympic champion.
- 15:23 20/08/2008
Two months on from their 3-1 victory over Holland at Euro 2008, Russia are to take on the Dutch again Wednesday - this time in Moscow in a friendly ahead of the start of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.
- 14:52 20/08/2008
- 14:29 20/08/2008
Russia-NATO cooperation is not at risk and it would be wrong to scale down the strategic partnership between Russia and the West amid global instability, Moscow's envoy to the military alliance has said.
- 14:03 20/08/2008
- 13:29 20/08/2008
The second stage of a major expedition to explore the depths of Siberia's Lake Baikal began on Wednesday, to the south of the central site where a series of deep-water dives have been carried out in recent weeks.
- 12:50 20/08/2008
The first five days of the conflict in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia cost Russia around 12.5 billion rubles ($508.7 million), a popular daily said on Wednesday
- 12:50 20/08/2008
A senior Russian military officer has been detained in southern Russia on suspicion of spying for Georgia, a spokesman for Russia's security service said on Wednesday.
- 11:27 20/08/2008
Syria is ready to discuss deploying Iskander missile-defense systems on its territory, but it has not received any proposals from Russia, the country's president told a Russian business daily.
- 11:00 20/08/2008
Russia has blocked a UN Security Council draft resolution calling for an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia, saying the document contradicts a previously agreed peace plan.
- 10:38 20/08/2008
Russia's richest woman Yelena Baturina and other shareholders are selling their shares in the country's largest state-owned bank Sberbank, a business daily said on Wednesday.
