- 22:02 27/02/2009
A Russian government source expressed astonishment on Friday over a statement made by Canada's defense minister over a flight by a Russian strategic bomber near the Canadian border. 
- 21:59 27/02/2009
Russia is in favor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe running separate missions in Georgia and South Ossetia, the Russian envoy to the UN said Friday.
- 21:15 27/02/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on Friday with his Romanian counterpart Cristian Diaconescu to discuss economic cooperation.
- 21:04 27/02/2009
Russia no longer depends on Ukraine to provide it with strategic missile tracking data following the launch of its new radar facility in the country's south, the commander of Russia's Space Forces said on Friday.
- 20:50 27/02/2009
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- 20:16 27/02/2009
Russia will spend some 100 billion rubles ($2.8 bln) to tackle rising unemployment in the country amid the global financial crisis, the health and social development minister was quoted as saying on Friday.
- 19:02 27/02/2009
Russia's new-generation aircraft carrier will be nuclear powered and have a displacement of up to 60,000 metric tons, a United Shipbuilding Corporation executive said on Friday.
- 18:40 27/02/2009
Legal forms of protest in Russia should not and will not be restricted, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced during a meeting with leaders of the ruling United Russia party on Friday.
- 18:39 27/02/2009
The turnover in trade between Russia and Italy in 2008 increased by over half to exceed $50 billion, a Russian presidential aide said Friday.
- 18:27 27/02/2009
- 18:18 27/02/2009
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has filed an appeal against the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a lawyer said on Friday.
- 17:41 27/02/2009
Iran would be able to put its Bushehr nuclear power plant into operation on its own if Russia refused to do so, a former Iranian president said on Friday.
- 17:33 27/02/2009
Tottenham Hotspur forward Roman Pavlyuchenko may miss Sunday's Carling Cup final against Manchester United on Sunday, the club's manager said on Friday.
- 17:04 27/02/2009
The Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk has been selected as the venue for a Russia-EU summit to be held in late May, a presidential aide announced on Friday.
- 15:36 27/02/2009
Russia's Natural Resources Ministry plans to completely ban seal hunting in the White Sea by March 1, the ministry's press service said on Friday.
- 15:35 27/02/2009
A Russian warship spilled about 20-30 tons of oil while refueling off the coast of Ireland in mid-February, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.
- 15:14 27/02/2009
Russia's foreign debt, including the former Soviet debt, dropped by 8.8% or $3.9 billion year-on-year to $40.5 billion in 2008, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 15:08 27/02/2009
The Russian government will give emergency humanitarian assistance to Zimbabwe, which is suffering from economic meltdown and a massive cholera epidemic, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
