- 22:15 30/01/2009
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on the U.S. and Russian presidents to take the initiative on nuclear disarmament during a meeting in Germany's parliament on Friday. 
- 21:01 30/01/2009
Galina Glukhov, the mother of a Russian deserter, who left his unit in South Ossetia and fled to Georgia, believes her son has been pressured into talking to the press, she told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 20:29 30/01/2009
Russian-Belarusian trade exceeded an estimated $34 billion in 2008, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 20:17 30/01/2009
Russia's Black Sea Fleet flagship the guided-missile cruiser Moskva and Italy's destroyer the Andrea Doria held one-day drills in the Ionian Sea in the Strait of Messina on Friday, the Black Sea Fleet said.
- 19:48 30/01/2009
A Georgian association announced its establishment on Friday in Tbilisi to call for a restoration in friendly ties between Russia and Georgia, marred over the five-day August war.
- 18:08 30/01/2009
Russia has successfully launched its first carrier rocket of 2009, putting a Coronas-Photon research satellite into orbit, a Mission Control spokesman said Friday.
- 18:03 30/01/2009
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- 16:45 30/01/2009
Arsenal received on Friday a U.K. work permit for Andrei Arshavin as sources in Russia indicated a deal to bring the Russian international to north London had already been sealed.
- 16:41 30/01/2009
- 16:08 30/01/2009
Cold War allies Russia and Cuba signed a host of agreements on Friday in a bid to revive ties and improve economic cooperation.
- 15:41 30/01/2009
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Russia's GDP growth will be close to zero and budgetary revenues could decline 40% in 2009 amid the ongoing global financial crisis, a deputy prime minister and finance minister said on Friday.
- 13:24 30/01/2009
Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev said he was open for dialogue with any party, including Chechnya's government and president, a Russian business daily reported on Friday.
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