- 13:47 11/03/2009
A major one-week military exercise will be held in southwest Siberia later this month, regional military officials said on Wednesday. 
- 13:36 11/03/2009
Special forces in south Russia killed 243 militants including 23 gang leaders in 2008, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday.
- 12:50 11/03/2009
The former co-owner of top Russian cell phone retailer Euroset has been placed on the international wanted list, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.
- 12:32 11/03/2009
Four floating nuclear power plants will be installed in the northeastern Siberian republic of Yakutia under an agreement between the Federal Nuclear Power Agency and the local administration, local authorities said on Wednesday.
- 11:33 11/03/2009
Russia's Federal Security Services (FSB) seized 958 kg (2,204 lbs.) of hashish in a major drug ring crackdown, an FSB spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 11:16 11/03/2009
Leading Russian steelmaker Severstal said on Wednesday its net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards increased 9.9% in 2008 year-on-year to $2.03 billion.
- 10:36 11/03/2009
The construction giant Inteko, owned by Russia's richest woman, has put in a request for 49 billion rubles ($1.4 bln) in state guarantees, saying it is unable to refinance its spiraling debt, a leading business daily said.
- 10:23 11/03/2009
Russia's second largest beer producer, SUN InBev, has opened a brewery near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, a company spokesman told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
- 09:36 11/03/2009
U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, on board of the International Space Station (ISS), have successfully completed a spacewalk ahead of schedule, Russian Mission Control said on Wednesday.
