- 20:45 25/02/2009
A group of Russian Navy officials are suspected of attempting to smuggle 30 anti-submarine missiles and 200 airplane bombs worth a total of $18 million to Tajikistan for sale to China. 
- 18:38 25/02/2009
Israel's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that the completion of Iran's first nuclear power plant is "bad news" for the whole world, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
- 18:16 25/02/2009
Russia and Iran are planning to sign a nuclear fuel supply contract for a term of at least 10 years, the head of Russia's nuclear power corporation said on Wednesday.
- 18:16 25/02/2009
- 18:09 25/02/2009
A Moscow court rejected on Wednesday a gay compensation claim made by the former cellmate of jailed Yukos ex-head Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
- 17:43 25/02/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev voiced his concerns on Wednesday over the large number of unsolved crimes and growing extremism in the country.
- 17:13 25/02/2009
Yemen is ready to render all necessary assistance to the Russian warships that are patrolling the Gulf of Aden as part of international anti-piracy efforts, the Yemeni president said.
- 17:02 25/02/2009
Bayern Munich are interested in buying CSKA's Yuri Zhirkov, the German Sport Bild paper said on Wednesday.
- 15:55 25/02/2009
Russia will continue developing and modernizing its nuclear triad in 2009 despite the current global economic crisis, a deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.
- 15:55 25/02/2009
- 15:29 25/02/2009
The Russian government is planning to use price regulation mechanisms for state defense contracts, a deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.
- 15:08 25/02/2009
Foreign direct investment in Russia dropped by 14.2% to $103.8 billion in 2008, the Russian state statistics service said on Wednesday.
- 14:38 25/02/2009
Russia's top investigator said on Wednesday the Makhmudov brothers, acquitted of the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, were involved in her death, but the prosecution had failed to convince the jurors of this.
- 13:46 25/02/2009
Russia's federal budget deficit will amount to 8% of GDP, including spending from the National Wealth Fund, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Wednesday.
- 13:41 25/02/2009
The Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer and the Nikolai Chiker salvage tug are returning to their home port after a tour of duty in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, a spokesman for the Russian Northern Fleet said on Wednesday.
- 12:48 25/02/2009
Russian authorities have invested almost 400 billion rubles ($11.2 billion) in the financial recovery of domestic banks to date, a Central Bank senior official said on Wednesday.
- 12:47 25/02/2009
Russia has completed the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr and is launching start-up operations, the head of Russia's nuclear power corporation said on Wednesday.
- 11:01 25/02/2009
Russia's state-controlled retail savings bank Sberbank will sponsor the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, a business paper reported on Wednesday.
- 10:50 25/02/2009
Russia's two main stock exchanges, MICEX and the RTS, opened on Wednesday with their key indexes going up after comments by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
