- 21:08 20/02/2009
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer reiterated on Friday that the alliance would keep its doors open to Georgia and Ukraine, but both countries still had much work ahead of them. 
- 19:01 20/02/2009
The debris from a recent collision involving two communications satellites could pose a serious threat for future launches of spacecraft into a geostationary orbit, a Russian scientist said on Friday.
- 18:17 20/02/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will make a state visit to Spain on March 1-3 at the invitation of King Juan Carlos I, the Kremlin said Friday.
- 18:14 20/02/2009
Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Salah will make an official visit to Russia on February 24-26, the Kremlin announced on Friday.
- 17:30 20/02/2009
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized the initiatives of Russia's pro-Kremlin United Russia party during a meeting with students at a Moscow university on Friday.
- 15:23 20/02/2009
The Moscow Military District Court acquitted on Friday three men of involvement in the 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
- 14:37 20/02/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed on Friday a claim by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci that Moscow was getting ready to recognize the province as an independent state.
- 14:06 20/02/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic signed in Moscow on Friday a deal on mutual visa-free travel for citizens of the two countries.
- 13:51 20/02/2009
Andrei Arshavin may make his Arsenal debut on Saturday when the north London club host Sunderland in an English Premier League match, although it is unlikely he will start the game.
- 13:12 20/02/2009
Russian rescuers have called a halt to the search for eight crewmembers from a Chinese cargo ship which sank off Russia's Pacific Coast, a spokesman for the Vladivostok rescue center said on Friday.
- 13:03 20/02/2009
Russia's GDP fell by 2.4% and industrial output decreased 3.5% in January, the economic development minister reported on Friday.
- 12:59 20/02/2009
TEHRAN, February 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian-Iranian trade turnover rose to $3.7 billion last year, Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Friday.
- 12:32 20/02/2009
- 12:12 20/02/2009
The murder case of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be referred back to an investigative committee at the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, a judge said on Friday.
- 11:53 20/02/2009
Russia's consul in North Korea has been denied permission to board a Russian vessel earlier seized by border guards off the coast of the secretive communist state, the ship's owner said on Friday.
- 11:11 20/02/2009
The Russian ambassador to Latvia has denied rumors that Russia was involved in violent unrest last month in the Latvian capital, when some 50 people were injured, a Latvian news website said on Friday.
- 10:33 20/02/2009
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- 09:40 20/02/2009
Russian steel giant Mechel has agreed to supply annually between 100,000 to 300,000 metric tons of coking coal to South Korea's Hyundai Steel from 2010, a Russian delegation source said on Friday.
