- 14:35 16/10/2008
A man who threatened to blow up a plane flying from Turkey to Russia on October 15 was described as a "temperamental poet" by Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda on Thursday. 
- 14:31 16/10/2008
Abkhazian parliamentarians took part as observers during a session of the parliamentary assembly of the Russia-Belarus Union State of Russia in Moscow on Thursday, a parliamentary source said.
- 14:27 16/10/2008
- 14:25 16/10/2008
A volcanic eruption on the Kamchatka Peninsula sent clouds of smoke and ash into the air above Russia's Far East on Thursday, a scientist said, warning of dangers to local inhabitants and passing airplanes.
- 13:36 16/10/2008
Kazakhstan and Russia will soon conduct joint missile defense exercises involving elements of Russia's Space Forces, a senior Kazakh military official said on Thursday.
- 13:00 16/10/2008
The board of the Chita District Court in East Siberia rejected Thursday an appeal against a lower court decision to deny parole to Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
- 12:36 16/10/2008
Russia welcomes the establishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
- 12:26 16/10/2008
Britain is still insisting that Russia hand over Andrei Lugovoi, accused by London of murdering intelligence defector Alexander Litvinenko in London in late 2006, the new U.K. ambassador to Russia said on Thursday.
- 11:17 16/10/2008
Two people were injured in a grenade explosion outside a district court in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya on Thursday, a local police source said.
- 11:11 16/10/2008
Russian private power companies have applied to the Russian government for $50 billion in loans, a business daily reported on Thursday.
- 10:34 16/10/2008
The leaders of the EU's 27 member states have supported plans for an international summit on the global financial crisis, current EU president Nicolas Sarkozy told journalists in Brussels.
- 10:28 16/10/2008
Russian police are preparing to thwart plans by Georgian terrorists to unleash attacks in major Russian cities in retaliation against Moscow's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a Russian daily said on Thursday.
- 09:12 16/10/2008
Five people have been killed after a wooden house caught fire in the East Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, a police source said on Thursday.
- 09:03 16/10/2008
