- 22:02 19/12/2008
- 21:49 19/12/2008
Russia's Baltic Fleet Neustrashimy (Fearless) missile frigate is escorting a group of commercial ships off the Somali coast, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Friday.
- 21:34 19/12/2008
A regular missile regiment, armed with the Topol-M (SS-27 Stalin) ICBMs, will go on combat duty in the Ivanovo Region on December 24, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces said Friday.
- 21:01 19/12/2008
Russia's state-controlled VTB bank has provided a 44.2 billion-ruble ($1.6 billion) loan to Alrosa, Russia's largest diamond producer, the bank said on Friday.
- 20:51 19/12/2008
Kiev has paid Russian energy giant Gazprom $1 billion towards its natural gas debt to cover September and October, the UNIAN news agency quoted a Ukrainian presidential spokeswoman as saying on Friday.
- 20:37 19/12/2008
Russia's Admiral Levchenko destroyer has called at the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Friday.
- 20:12 19/12/2008
Three ships from Russia's Northern Fleet arrived in Havana Bay on Friday as part of the Russian Navy's first visit to Cuba since the Cold War.
- 19:56 19/12/2008
- 19:53 19/12/2008
Russian troops have returned to Perevi village along Georgia's border with South Ossetia to prevent growing tensions in the area, the Foreign Ministry said Friday in response to criticism by EU monitors.
- 19:17 19/12/2008
- 19:13 19/12/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed on Friday a joint action plan to deepen their countries' ties in 2009-2010.
- 19:02 19/12/2008
The Russia-NATO Council will hold an informal meeting at ambassadorial level in mid-January, the Russian envoy to the North Atlantic alliance said on Friday.
- 18:50 19/12/2008
- 17:37 19/12/2008
The Bush administration is making a last ditch attempt to "drag" Georgia and Ukraine into NATO before U.S. president-elect Barack Obama takes office, an analyst on Russian-American relations said on Friday.
- 17:28 19/12/2008
- 17:15 19/12/2008
Russia and Ukraine have reassured the European Commission that their current gas dispute will have no affect on Russian gas supplied to the EU via Ukraine, the commission's energy spokesman said on Friday.
- 17:00 19/12/2008
The Belarusian president said on Friday he fully supported Russia's idea to deploy short-range missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave in response to a U.S. missile shield in Central Europe.
- 16:56 19/12/2008
Russia's prime minister demanded on Friday that natural monopolies and state-run companies buy only Russian-made cars, and recommended private companies to do likewise.
- 16:31 19/12/2008
