- 22:04 03/12/2008
Spartak Moscow are in danger of missing out on a place in the UEFA Cup play-off stages after losing 2-1 in Moscow to Dutch minnows NEC Nijmegen on Wednesday evening. 
- 21:53 03/12/2008
- 21:09 03/12/2008
Moscow welcomes the Ukrainian president's decision to attempt to improve relations with Russia, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 20:24 03/12/2008
The Italian club AC Milan have shown an interest in buying unsettled Zenit star Andrei Arshavin, the La Gazzetta dello Sport paper said on Wednesday.
- 20:09 03/12/2008
Ukrainian Defense Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said on Wednesday that the planned redeployment of troops closer to the country's borders did not threaten Russia.
- 20:05 03/12/2008
Russia is ready to restart dialogue with NATO, frozen after its brief war in August with Georgia, but will not forget that the alliance backed Tbilisi in the conflict, its NATO envoy said on Wednesday.
- 19:06 03/12/2008
- 18:31 03/12/2008
Foreign ministers of the 26 NATO member-countries urged Russia on Wednesday to lift its moratorium on a major arms reduction treaty in Europe.
- 18:10 03/12/2008
The temperature in Moscow climbed to 6.6 degrees Celsius (44 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, breaking a 47-year-old record, the Russian meteorological website www.hmn.ru reported.
- 18:09 03/12/2008
- 17:52 03/12/2008
- 17:32 03/12/2008
The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti has established a law agency to cover new developments taking place in Russia's legal system, a RIA Novosti deputy editor-in-chief said on Wednesday.
- 17:19 03/12/2008
Gazprom's investment program in 2009 will be worth 920 billion rubles ($33 billion), the state-run energy giant's CEO said on Wednesday.
- 17:12 03/12/2008
NATO called upon Russia on Wednesday to refrain from "confrontational statements" that could further harm relations between the military alliance and Moscow.
- 16:53 03/12/2008
- 16:45 03/12/2008
Georgia and Ukraine are unlikely to join NATO within the next two decades, a chief analyst at the Russian Institute for Military and Political Analysis said on Wednesday.
- 16:00 03/12/2008
Roman Abramovich will pay $5 million into the bank account of the Russian Football Union to guarantee the salary of the national side's trainer, Guus Hiddink, Sovetski Sport said on Wednesday.
- 15:50 03/12/2008
- 15:46 03/12/2008
Spartak Moscow will attempt to make sure of a place in the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup on Wednesday evening when they take on NEC Nijmegen of the Netherlands in the Russian capital.
