- 15:14 02/10/2008
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe started discussions on Thursday on whether to refuse Russia the right to vote at the January session unless it annuls its recognition of Georgia's rebel regions. 
- 13:47 02/10/2008
- 13:39 02/10/2008
Ehud Olmert, Israel's interim prime minister, will arrive in Russia for a two-day working visit on the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
- 13:35 02/10/2008
Russia's Armed Forces urgently need new weaponry to replace the obsolete armaments inherited from Soviet times, the deputy defense minister for armaments has said.
- 13:27 02/10/2008
A teacher at the high school that partially collapsed in Russia's Urals killing five teenagers has committed suicide, the school principal said Thursday.
- 13:25 02/10/2008
South Ossetia's parliament has ratified a friendship and cooperation treaty with Russia, the republic's foreign minister, Murat Dzhioyev, said on Thursday.
- 12:32 02/10/2008
The prime ministers of Ukraine and Russia could sign an agreement on gas supplies without intermediaries after negotiations on Thursday, business paper Kommersant Ukraine reported.
- 11:49 02/10/2008
Food products containing banned Chinese powdered milk have been found in the Khabarovsk Region in Russia's Far East and withdrawn from sale, the consumer rights regulator said on Thursday.
- 11:33 02/10/2008
Russia's gold and foreign currency reserves rose $3.4 billion to $562.8 billion in the week from September 19 to September 16, the Central Bank said on Thursday.
- 09:21 02/10/2008
A teacher at the high school that partially collapsed in Russia's Urals killing five teenagers has committed suicide, the school principal said Thursday.
- 09:16 02/10/2008
A Boeing 737-300 has crash-landed at the airport in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, a Transportation Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
