- 18:31 04/11/2008
Police detained around 500 nationalist activists taking part in illegal rallies in various parts of Moscow's city center to mark Unity Day on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
- 17:43 04/11/2008
- 17:30 04/11/2008
The officially sanctioned "Russian March" went ahead peacefully in Moscow on Tuesday, as around 1,500 nationalists gathered to mark Unity Day.
- 16:14 04/11/2008
- 15:51 04/11/2008
- 15:40 04/11/2008
President Dmitry Medvedev attended celebrations of Russia's Unity Day in the Kremlin on Tuesday, and gave a speech hailing the 1612 liberation of Moscow as a key event in the nation's development.
- 15:26 04/11/2008
Russia's armed forces plans to buy up to 12 Ka-52 Hokum-B combat/reconnaissance helicopters in 2009, the Russian Air Force Commander Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said on Tuesday.
- 14:24 04/11/2008
Police detained more than 200 far-right activists on central Moscow's Novy Arbat who were taking part in an unsanctioned rally to mark Unity Day, a police spokesman said.
- 13:53 04/11/2008
India's oil minister arrived in Moscow on a two-day visit on Tuesday for talks on participating in future oil and gas projects in Russia, a source in India's oil ministry said.
- 13:15 04/11/2008
A delegation from the Georgian Orthodox Church set off on a visit to Moscow on Tuesday, the first such trip since the August five-day war between Russia and Georgia.
- 12:48 04/11/2008
Russia's Communist Party issued a harsh rebuke on Tuesday of Unity Day celebrations, saying the country should not ignore the Bolshevik Revolution.
- 12:13 04/11/2008
A painting by avant-garde Russian artist Kazimir Malevich sold for a record-price of just over $60 million at an auction in New York despite gloom over the global financial crisis.
- 11:55 04/11/2008
- 11:07 04/11/2008
The presidents of Poland and Lithuania said the EU should delay resuming talks on a new EU partnership and cooperation pact with Moscow until all Russian troops had been withdrawn from Georgia, Polish media said.
- 10:29 04/11/2008
- 09:53 04/11/2008
