- 20:59 16/03/2009
The Russian government will allocate 1.5 trillion rubles ($45 billion) for anti-crisis measures this year, the prime minister said on Monday. Vladimir Putin said that would ensure the implementation of all social programs.
- 18:48 16/03/2009
Monday's launch of a Russian 'Rockot' carrier rocket carrying Europe's first GOCE satellite has been postponed for at least one day, an official from the European Space Agency said, without giving a reason for the postponement.
- 18:32 16/03/2009
- 18:32 16/03/2009
Russia will provide 2.36 billion rubles ($70 million) in financial assistance to Abkhazia and 2.8 billion rubles ($80 million) to South Ossetia from the federal budget, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
- 16:39 16/03/2009
The Russian state-controlled banks Sberbank, VTB and Vnesheconombank (VEB) have granted over 2 trillion rubles ($57 billion) in loans to core enterprises, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Monday.
- 16:05 16/03/2009
Russia's Magnitogorsk metals producer (MMK) said on Monday it had increased by 50% the total amount it is owed by the second largest automaker GAZ to 1.5 billion rubles ($43.2 million).
- 15:35 16/03/2009
Moscow has no intention of sending a military contingent to Afghanistan, the Russian foreign minister said on Monday.
- 15:26 16/03/2009
Russia's largest diamond company Alrosa could become the world's top diamond mining company, and is considering buying foreign assets, the company CEO said on Monday.
- 14:23 16/03/2009
Russia's largest truck-maker KamAZ said on Monday it has restarted its main assembly line after a 10-day break due to weak demand for vehicles amid the financial crisis.
- 13:47 16/03/2009
A faulty ejection cartridge was responsible for the failure of the latest test launch of the Bulava sea-based ballistic missile, a Russian Defense Ministry source said on Monday.
- 13:35 16/03/2009
Russia has proposed that compulsory international standards for macroeconomic and budget policy be adopted in a new document to the G20 addressing the global financial crisis, the Kremlin website said on Monday.
- 13:17 16/03/2009
Russia has paid at least $10 million since 2006 to U.S. public relations agencies hired to improve its image on the global stage, a Russian magazine said on Monday.
- 13:05 16/03/2009
Russian international Andrei Arshavin has defended under-fire Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner in an interview with the Sport Express daily.
- 11:48 16/03/2009
Investigators in the northeastern Siberian republic of Yakutia are looking into the deaths of four men believed to have committed suicide by hanging on the same day, a prosecutor's aide said on Monday.
- 10:47 16/03/2009
A man who took several people hostage in a southwest Siberian bank on Friday and was later shot dead by police is reported to have been heavily in debt, a spokesman for investigators said on Monday.
- 10:46 16/03/2009
Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe will arrive in Moscow on Monday on a three-day visit to discuss bilateral energy and metals projects with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
- 10:10 16/03/2009
Russia will launch on Monday a Rockot carrier rocket bearing Europe's first GOCE satellite, an official from the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
- 09:45 16/03/2009
- 09:15 16/03/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Kabul on Monday to discuss preparations for an international conference on Afghanistan due to take place in Moscow on March 27.
