- 21:52 17/02/2009
Ukraine has warned Russian Ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin that he could be expelled from the country over "unfriendly and extremely undiplomatic assessments, comments and statements regarding Ukraine and its leadership." 
- 21:30 17/02/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at an economic conference that the country's Reserve Fund will be sufficient to balance this year's and future budgets.
- 21:13 17/02/2009
A group of Russian camels that was held up at the Russian-Ukrainian border for two weeks in freezing temperatures has reached its final destination of Bulgaria.
- 20:30 17/02/2009
Transneft plans to start building a Chinese leg of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean later in 2009 and to commission it in 2010, Russia's monopoly pipeline operator said in a statement on Tuesday.
- 20:16 17/02/2009
Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, who lives in self-imposed exile in Britain, said on Tuesday he was resolved to return to Chechnya and "work for a lasting peace" in the region.
- 20:06 17/02/2009
Egypt has not asked Russia to put pressure on the Palestinian movement Hamas, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Tuesday in the capital of Oman.
- 18:31 17/02/2009
- 18:14 17/02/2009
The guided missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, has returned to the Sevastopol base in the Crimea after a tour in the Mediterranean Sea, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 17:58 17/02/2009
China will extend $25 billion in loans to Russian state-controlled crude producer Rosneft and pipeline operator Transneft at 6% per annum in exchange for long-term oil supplies, a source close to negotiations said Tuesday.
- 17:58 17/02/2009
Media reports are exaggerating the scope of an oil spill off the coast of Ireland, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 17:30 17/02/2009
- 16:59 17/02/2009
Moscow has the potential to broaden cooperation with Washington on supplies of non-lethal cargo to the U.S. troops in Afghanistan via the so-called "northern corridor," a Kremlin official said on Tuesday.
- 16:42 17/02/2009
Moscow's mayor criticized the Russian government's economic policies amid the financial crisis and called for a bigger state role in the economy in an interview published by a business daily on Tuesday.
- 16:35 17/02/2009
Tehran hopes a trial run of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran will take place before the end of this year, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 15:58 17/02/2009
Al-Qaeda, the international terrorist organization, has not become weaker but gained in strength, while hundreds of similar extremist groups have emerged worldwide, a Russian presidential representative said on Tuesday.
- 15:54 17/02/2009
- 15:48 17/02/2009
Egypt says it welcomes a proposed international peace conference on the Middle East in Moscow and is set to contribute to it, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Tuesday.
- 14:59 17/02/2009
Russia and China have signed a number of documents on cooperation in the energy sphere, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Tuesday.
- 14:55 17/02/2009
Russia's antimonopoly regulator launched suits on Tuesday against the country's largest crude producers - TNK-BP, Gazprom Neft, LUKoil and Rosneft - over fuel market violations in late 2008.
