- 20:58 07/10/2008
- 20:52 07/10/2008
Gazprom Sbyt Ukraine, a subsidiary of the Russian energy giant, will deliver about 5 billion cubic meters of natural gas to industrial consumers in Ukraine this year, the company's general director said Tuesday.
- 20:46 07/10/2008
Russian opposition parties and trade union leaders said Tuesday the country's economy was on the brink of a crisis, slamming the government and calling for urgent action.
- 20:44 07/10/2008
More than 1,000 refugees, who fled South Ossetia after Georgia's offensive on its breakaway republic two months ago, remain in Russia's North Ossetia, a human rights activist said Tuesday.
- 20:34 07/10/2008
- 19:43 07/10/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Israeli interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday that Russia would continue to play a constructive role in the Middle East peace process.
- 19:36 07/10/2008
Russia has responded positively to a request from Iceland for a loan, Russia's finance minister said Tuesday.
- 18:52 07/10/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will address an international forum on global politics and security in France to propose the creation of a new European security system, the Kremlin website said on Tuesday.
- 18:05 07/10/2008
- 17:18 07/10/2008
EU observers in Georgia will be monitoring the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from the buffer zone next to South Ossetia, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
- 16:37 07/10/2008
- 16:30 07/10/2008
Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday following a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart in Moscow that weapons sold to the Latin American state were only to improve its defense capability.
- 16:17 07/10/2008
- 16:17 07/10/2008
A public opinion poll held in Ukraine has said that 50% of the country approves of Russia's recent recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
- 16:15 07/10/2008
Despite heavy rain hundreds of people gathered in Moscow on Tuesday to commemorate investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya gunned down near her home in the Russian capital in 2006.
- 15:35 07/10/2008
Customs officers in Russia's Far East have detained on suspicion of poaching a Sierra Leone-flagged vessel carrying more than 40 metric tons of crab, a border guards spokesman said Tuesday.
- 15:29 07/10/2008
Russia's two remaining representatives in the UEFA Cup found out the identities of their group stage opponents on Tuesday afternoon.
- 14:59 07/10/2008
Russia's MICEX and RTS stock exchanges resumed trading as of 1:00 p.m. Moscow time (09:00 GMT) Tuesday, with shares showing moderate growth.
- 14:46 07/10/2008
Iceland's Central Bank said Tuesday that Russia had agreed to grant it a 4 billion-euro ($5.4 billion) loan, prompting a senior Russian Finance Ministry official to deny any deal had been made.
