- 21:27 06/03/2009
Georgia's armed forces are building fortified structures near the border with South Ossetia, as well as new firing positions, the South Ossetian president said on Friday. 
- 21:24 06/03/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a symbolic "reboot" to improve relations between the two countries when they met in Geneva on Friday.
- 20:53 06/03/2009
The managing director of a media company in the southern Russian city of Saratov, who was attacked late on Thursday, is still in a coma in hospital, a colleague said on Friday.
- 19:08 06/03/2009
Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation will build more than 1,000 civilian vessels in the next 20 years, the Russian prime minister said on Friday.
- 17:48 06/03/2009
The Czech foreign minister, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency, said on Friday that there would be no more disruptions to Russian natural gas supplies to EU consumers.
- 17:15 06/03/2009
Russia is ready to discuss revised U.S. proposals for a controversial missile shield in Central Europe, as well as ways of dealing with other global problems, the Russian prime minister's spokesman said Friday.
- 16:33 06/03/2009
- 16:28 06/03/2009
India decommissioned on Friday its last MiG-23 Flogger fighter-bomber, a Soviet era aircraft in service with the Indian air force for 28 years, a Defense Ministry official said.
- 16:25 06/03/2009
Defense lawyers for former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner have requested the Moscow court dismiss new charges against their clients, a lawyer said on Friday.
- 16:15 06/03/2009
- 15:13 06/03/2009
Russia will have a total of 3,800 troops deployed in Abkhazia for the next 49 years, the president of the former Georgian republic said on Friday.
- 14:04 06/03/2009
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- 14:02 06/03/2009
A senior Russian diplomat has accused the EU of exerting pressure on Belarus not to recognize the former Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- 13:27 06/03/2009
Russian military officials tried to smuggle 30 anti-submarine missiles and 200 aviation bombs via Tajikistan to China under the guise of nonferrous metal deliveries, a law enforcement source said on Friday.
- 12:56 06/03/2009
Russia's state-controlled Vneshtorgbank, one of Russia's largest banks, has decided not to prolong its sponsorship deal with CSKA Moscow, a bank official told the Sovetski Sport paper on Friday.
- 12:39 06/03/2009
Russia wrote off $20 billion in debts owed by African countries in 2008, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 12:33 06/03/2009
Russia is cautiously optimistic over the meeting to be held on Friday between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
- 11:34 06/03/2009
