- 15:35 01/10/2008
- 15:11 01/10/2008
- 15:04 01/10/2008
Boris Yefimov, a Soviet political cartoonist noted for his caricatures of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, died on Wednesday at the age of 108, the Ekho Moskvy radio station said.
- 13:31 01/10/2008
Russia's top court ruled on Wednesday "to exonerate" the country's last tsar and his family, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, as victims of political repression.
- 13:05 01/10/2008
At least five children were killed and four injured when a staircase collapsed at a school in Russia's Urals on Wednesday, an emergencies service source said.
- 13:02 01/10/2008
- 12:59 01/10/2008
Russia will deliver an additional 18 Smerch multiple rocket launch systems to India, the state-run arms exporter said on Wednesday.
- 12:14 01/10/2008
Unarmed European Union observers in Georgia began their monitoring of a ceasefire between Moscow and Tbilisi on Wednesday morning, Georgian media reported.
- 11:48 01/10/2008
- 10:30 01/10/2008
- 10:00 01/10/2008
An exercise involving Russian and Chinese rescuers and firefighters began on Wednesday in the Far Eastern Russian village of Rovnoe, a local emergencies service spokesman said.
- 09:50 01/10/2008
U.S. senators are to vote on Wednesday on a reworked $700 billion financial bailout package that comes after the House of Representatives turned down an initial version of the plan.
- 09:46 01/10/2008
The head of the criminal investigation department in Russia's Caucasus republic of North Ossetia has been shot dead, the republic's investigations committee said on Wednesday.
- 09:06 01/10/2008
