- 14:53 21/01/2009
The testing of Russia's fifth-generation fighter must begin in 2009 and the aircraft should be commissioned with the Russian Air Force in 2015, a deputy prime minister said on Wednesday. 
- 14:29 21/01/2009
On the 85th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, a Russian communist group has called on the country's president to make the father of the Bolshevik Revolution a "Hero of Russia."
- 14:09 21/01/2009
Moscow's top investigators will be involved in a probe into the murder of a lawyer, who represented the family of a Chechen woman killed by a Russian officer, the Moscow police chief said on Wednesday.
- 13:42 21/01/2009
Russia plans to have 250,000 non-commissioned officers in its Armed Forces in the future, a deputy defense minister said on Wednesday.
- 13:33 21/01/2009
The Turkish government is likely to cancel a tender for the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant by rejecting a bid from a Russian reactor builder, a Turkish paper said on Wednesday.
- 13:28 21/01/2009
A Russian destroyer made a scheduled visit to Yemen's largest port of Aden on Wednesday, according to Yemen press reports.
- 13:17 21/01/2009
- 12:43 21/01/2009
Zenit St. Petersburg star Andrei Arshavin has said that only God can help make his dream of playing for a top foreign side come true, the Sport Express paper reported on Wednesday.
- 12:33 21/01/2009
One person has died and some 200 other service personnel have been diagnosed with pneumonia in Russia's Kaliningrad and Volga-Urals military districts, a senior military official said on Wednesday.
- 12:31 21/01/2009
Ukraine and Russia will hold consultations on demarcating maritime boundaries between the two countries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov on January 21-22, Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
- 11:56 21/01/2009
Russian businessman and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich has launched legal proceedings against Times Newspapers Limited over a January 18 Sunday Times article that said he was looking to sell the club.
- 11:53 21/01/2009
A Ford factory near Russia's second city of St. Petersburg announced on Wednesday it was restarting its assembly lines shut down on December 24.
- 11:13 21/01/2009
- 11:01 21/01/2009
Some 50 people dressed as mummies are due to gather in Moscow's Red Square on Wednesday to call for the burial of Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin.
- 10:41 21/01/2009
The Greek foreign minister will meet with her Russian counterpart in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss a broad variety of bilateral and international issues, the Greek ministry said.
- 09:59 21/01/2009
Three police officers were shot and injured overnight as they tried to arrest a wanted militant in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, a local police spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 09:25 21/01/2009
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