- 14:02 01/12/2008
Police have compiled photofits of two young men suspected of setting off an explosion in a church in southern Moscow injuring two people, local police said on Monday. 
- 13:30 01/12/2008
Raiffeisenbank has granted a $100 million 12-month loan to Gazprom Neft, the oil producing arm of energy giant Gazprom, the bank said on Monday.
- 12:50 01/12/2008
Gennady Zyuganov was reelected as leader of Russia's Communist Party late on Sunday at a congress, where he pledged to restore the party's influence and bring more young leaders to its ranks.
- 12:03 01/12/2008
Mechel, a leading Russian mining and metals company, has applied to national development bank Vnesheconombank for a loan of almost $2 billion to refinance its foreign liabilities, business paper Vedomosti said on Monday.
- 11:45 01/12/2008
Zenit St. Petersburg captain Anatoliy Tymoshchuk will not sign for German giants Bayern Munich until next summer, the Russian Sport Express paper said on Monday.
- 11:30 01/12/2008
A large Russian assault ship patrolling waters off the Abkhaz coast was put on alert after guests at a wedding party fired celebratory shots into the air from pistols and a flare gun.
- 10:31 01/12/2008
Russia and Venezuela will begin joint naval exercises in the Caribbean on Monday, lasting two days.
- 09:17 01/12/2008
A treaty between Russia and Norway on visa facilitation and readmission comes into force on Monday. Norway is not a European Union member, but is within the Schengen passport-free zone.
- 09:16 01/12/2008
The Russian government lowered oil export duty by 33% as of Monday, from $287.3 per metric ton to $192.1, to take into account the lower global oil price.
