- 21:18 08/12/2008
Russia's agricultural regulator has imposed provisional restrictions on pork imports from Ireland following a contamination risk warning by Irish authorities, a service spokesman said on Monday. 
- 21:02 08/12/2008
Russia must re-establish its solid presence in Africa by actively participating in conflict resolution on the continent, including in Sudan, a Russian senator said on Monday.
- 20:22 08/12/2008
An international conference on security in Northeast Asia will take place in Moscow at the start of next year, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Monday.
- 19:33 08/12/2008
Any European missile defense network that includes elements of a U.S. missile shield in Poland and the Czech republic would be aimed against Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 18:47 08/12/2008
The Moscow City Court ordered on Monday that an ill former Yukos executive charged with embezzlement be released, setting bail for the AIDS patient at 50 million rubles ($1.8 million).
- 18:30 08/12/2008
- 17:56 08/12/2008
The European Union admitted on Monday that Russia may have been among the countries that received Irish pork exports contaminated with toxic dioxins.
- 17:30 08/12/2008
A Russian communist group based in St. Petersburg has criticized Zenit star Andrei Arshavin over his desire to sign for a foreign side.
- 16:51 08/12/2008
- 16:22 08/12/2008
Thousands of people have been paying final farewells to Patriarch Alexy II, lying in state in a central Moscow cathedral, in tribute to his role in reviving Russian Orthodox Christianity after decades of the atheist Soviet rule.
- 16:17 08/12/2008
A Russian An-124 Condor heavy transport plane has delivered four helicopters along with personnel to Chad to take part in an EU-led mission to support UN peacekeeping efforts in the country, an Air Force spokesman said on Monday.
- 16:06 08/12/2008
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- 15:57 08/12/2008
Standard & Poor's has lowered Russia's long and short-term sovereign foreign currency credit ratings from BBB+/A-2 to BBB/A-3 with a negative outlook, the international rating agency said on Monday.
- 15:12 08/12/2008
One naval officer died in a fire on Russia's Baltic Fleet frigate the Neukrotimy (Indomitable) on Monday, a senior Navy official said.
- 14:43 08/12/2008
Russia's GDP will grow by 1-2% in the best case scenario and could decline by 1-4% in the worst-case scenario next year, the chairman of the MDM-Bank board of directors said on Monday.
- 14:36 08/12/2008
- 14:32 08/12/2008
CSKA Moscow, who recently parted company with trainer Valery Gazzayev, denied on Monday that they would seek to replace the former national side coach with Frank Rijkaard, Sport Express reported.
- 14:13 08/12/2008
One naval officer died in a fire on Russia's Baltic Fleet frigate the Neukrotimy (Indomitable) on Monday, a senior Navy official said.
