- 21:55 17/03/2009
Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh said on Tuesday that the former Georgian republic had no plans to become a part of Russia, the Russian daily paper Izvestia reported. 
- 21:24 17/03/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated on Tuesday his North Korean counterpart Kim Yong-il on the 60th anniversary of an agreement between the two countries on economic and cultural cooperation.
- 21:16 17/03/2009
A Moscow court rejected on Tuesday a request from defense lawyers to drop new embezzlement charges against Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner.
- 19:46 17/03/2009
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A Russian Rockot launch vehicle successfully put into orbit on Tuesday the European GOCE satellite, which will measure and map the Earth's gravitational field, a spokesman for Russia's Space Forces said.
- 18:54 17/03/2009
Russia has successfully launched a Rockot carrier rocket bearing Europe's first GOCE satellite. The Rockot was launched by Russia's Space Forces from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia at 5.21 p.m. Moscow time (14.21 GMT).
- 18:31 17/03/2009
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Russia will put a regiment of new-generation intercontinental ballistic missiles into service in December, the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) commander said on Tuesday.
- 17:10 17/03/2009
A Russian soldier who abandoned his military unit in South Ossetia and crossed the border into Georgia in January is facing desertion charges, the chief military prosecutor said
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- 16:38 17/03/2009
The joint rapid-reaction forces of a post-Soviet regional security bloc will hold military exercises in September in Kazakhstan, the Russian defense minister said on Tuesday.
- 16:18 17/03/2009
The second regiment equipped with advanced S-400 Triumf air defense missile systems has been put into combat service in Russia, the defense minister said on Tuesday.
- 16:09 17/03/2009
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- 16:01 17/03/2009
Russian clubs' search for Champions League success is hindered by the organization of the domestic game, a Russian First Deputy Prime Minister has told Sport Express.
- 15:14 17/03/2009
Russia has started mooring trials of the first Borey class nuclear-powered strategic submarine, which will be equipped with Bulava sea-based ballistic missiles, the defense minister said on Tuesday.
- 14:37 17/03/2009
A Russian soldier who abandoned his military unit in South Ossetia and crossed the border into Georgia in January is facing desertion charges, the chief military prosecutor said on Tuesday.
- 14:12 17/03/2009
Russia on Tuesday signed agreements with Abkhazia and South Ossetia on giving the republics financial aid in socio-economic development and balancing their budgets.
