- 21:50 17/10/2008
Russia's Central Bank will hold on Monday the first auction to offer banks up to $26.6 billion in unsecured loans at 8.5% interest rate, the bank said in a statement on Friday. 
- 20:45 17/10/2008
The global financial crisis could reach its peak in March-May 2009, a source in the Russian government said on Friday.
- 19:09 17/10/2008
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Russia's main military base in Abkhazia will be in Gudauta, and no new bases will be built, the Abkhazian foreign minister said Friday.
- 18:09 17/10/2008
A total of 48 teenagers and one teacher at a school in the Orenburg Region, in Russia's Urals, have been hospitalized with suspected food poisoning, local investigators said on Friday.
- 17:41 17/10/2008
Russia's lower house of parliament urged the world community on Friday to denounce Washington's economic blockade of Cuba and called for aid to be given to the island, which has been badly hit by recent hurricanes.
- 17:29 17/10/2008
A Russian man who threatened to blow up a plane flying from Turkey to Russia on October 15 was arrested on Friday, prosecutors in Russia's St. Petersburg said.
- 16:59 17/10/2008
Russia will soon ship around 1,000 tons of equipment necessary to complete the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, a top Iranian nuclear official said on Friday.
- 16:58 17/10/2008
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Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and NPO Saturn have asked the Russian government to allocate an additional 4 billion rubles ($152 million) for the production of the Superjet 100 airliner, a Russian business daily said Friday.
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One of the largest mosques in the world, named after Chechnya's first president, was inaugurated on Friday in the North Caucasus republic in a lavish ceremony attended by dignitaries from 28 countries.
- 16:27 17/10/2008
Russia's Air Force has suspended flights of MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters following Friday's crash in eastern Siberia, an AF spokesman said.
- 16:26 17/10/2008
Russian Prime Minster Vladimir Putin's black Labrador, Connie, has been given a tracking collar linked to the Russian navigation satellite system Glonass, the government website said on Friday.
- 16:18 17/10/2008
Russia's foreign minister will travel to India late on Sunday to discuss arrangements for a bilateral summit, the Russian Embassy in New Dehli said on Friday.
- 15:44 17/10/2008
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday Russia would set out specific security proposals at international talks on the Georgian conflict in Geneva on November 18.
- 14:51 17/10/2008
Russia's state-owned Vnesheconombank (VEB) is in talks to buy Globex bank, which has defaulted on some of its obligations to clients, a Russian business daily reported Friday.
