- 21:16 26/09/2008
Identification of the Perm plane crash victims has delayed DNA tests on the remains of the family of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, the head of Yekaterinburg's forensic laboratory said on Friday. 
- 21:05 26/09/2008
Venezuela plans to use most of the $1 bln loan granted by Russia to buy air-defense systems, a Russian military analyst said on Friday.
- 20:30 26/09/2008
Gazprom may soon sign an agreement with TNK-BP on buying the license to the Kovykta gas condensate field in East Siberia from the Russian-British oil company, the Russian energy giant's CEO said on Friday.
- 20:18 26/09/2008
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Russia must upgrade its nuclear deterrent and fully supply the Armed Forces with modern weaponry by 2020.
- 19:59 26/09/2008
The six countries negotiating the Iranian nuclear problem agreed on Friday on a draft UN Security Council resolution on Iran containing no new sanctions, the Russian foreign minister said.
- 19:01 26/09/2008
Venezuela's state oil and natural gas company PDVSA will hold a controlling stake in an oil and gas consortium to be set up with Russia, Russia's energy minister said on Friday.
- 18:59 26/09/2008
Moscow and Kiev did not discuss the Russian Navy leaving the Sevastopol base it rents from Ukraine in 2017 during talks on the Black Sea Fleet that finished Friday, a Russian official said.
- 18:46 26/09/2008
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- 17:30 26/09/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev observed the test launch of a tactical missile in a command and staff exercise in the southern Urals on Friday, a senior military commander said.
- 17:10 26/09/2008
Russia's Navy has sent a missile frigate to waters off the Somali coast to fight piracy in the region, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.
- 17:02 26/09/2008
Venezuela's state oil and natural gas company PDVSA will hold a controlling stake in an oil and gas consortium to be set up with Russia, Russia's energy minister said on Friday.
- 17:00 26/09/2008
- 16:19 26/09/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has failed to learn lessons from the conflict over South Ossetia and still poses a threat to stability in the Caucasus.
- 15:06 26/09/2008
- 15:06 26/09/2008
Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula contains at least 1,200 metric tons of gold and 8,000 tons of silver, a geological expert said Friday.
- 14:55 26/09/2008
Russia and Venezuela signed Friday two documents on energy cooperation following a meeting of the countries' presidents.
- 13:54 26/09/2008
Two Russian coast guard vessels from the Far East port of Vladivostok are on their way to South Korea to take part in a joint anti-terror exercise, a regional coast guard official said on Friday.
- 13:23 26/09/2008
Russia and Venezuela signed on Friday two documents on energy cooperation following a meeting of the countries' presidents.
