- 14:57 09/10/2008
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Russia was shocked the UN and NATO had secretly signed a cooperation agreement without all UN member states reading the draft. 
- 14:33 09/10/2008
- 14:27 09/10/2008
Russian police are to replace the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle and the Makarov pistol with Yarygin pistols and PP-2000 submachine guns, a senior Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
- 14:25 09/10/2008
Russia completed Thursday the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from a buffer zone adjacent to Abkhazia ahead of the agreed deadline, the deputy commander of the CIS peacekeeping contingent in the region said.
- 13:59 09/10/2008
The presidents of Ukraine and Azerbaijan will not attend the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, the Central Asian state's envoy to the post-Soviet alliance said Thursday.
- 13:25 09/10/2008
- 13:12 09/10/2008
Russia's Dutch trainer, Guus Hiddink, has not ruled out remaining in charge of the national team after his contract expires in 2010.
- 13:12 09/10/2008
Russia have completed the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from a buffer zone on the border between Georgia and Abkhazia, two days ahead of the agreed deadline, a deputy commander of the CIS peacekeeping contingent in the region said Thursday.
- 12:40 09/10/2008
Georgia's withdrawal from the CIS will not harm the organization, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday, suggesting that Tbilisi's participation in the post-Soviet alliance had been malign in recent years.
- 12:12 09/10/2008
Russia's State Property Committee has approved the transfer of the state's stakes in the embattled AirUnion alliance to the state-run Russian Technology Corporation, a Russian paper said on Thursday.
- 12:02 09/10/2008
The main suspect in a Moscow Region real estate fraud case, released last week on an unprecedented bail of 50 million rubles ($2 million) and later re-arrested on different charges, has been released again.
- 11:20 09/10/2008
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- 10:56 09/10/2008
The Progress aircraft maker, based in Russia's Far East, will start deliveries of the Ka-52 Hokum-B combat/reconnaissance helicopter to the Russian Air Force in 2009, a Russian business daily said on Thursday.
- 10:54 09/10/2008
Russia's NATO envoy has said that Ukrainian weapons were delivered to Georgia, and that the last delivery came as Georgian forces were attacking breakaway South Ossetia.
- 10:39 09/10/2008
Siberia's Chita District Court granted a request by defense lawyers on Thursday to postpone until October 14 a hearing into extending court custody of ex-Yukos executive, Platon Lebedev.
- 09:37 09/10/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday for talks with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, and to take part in meetings of CIS and Eurasec leaders, the Kremlin said.
