- 21:23 13/04/2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry officially confirmed on Monday that Somali pirates have released the Norwegian-owned chemical tanker Bow Asir with a Russian crewmember onboard. 
- 20:23 13/04/2009
Flight tests of Russia's new cargo spacecraft will start in 2016-17, the general designer of the RSC Energia rocket manufacturer said on Monday.
- 20:09 13/04/2009
A 3-year-old girl believed to have been kidnapped by her Russian mother in France last month was returned to her French father on Monday, the Russian Embassy in Hungary said.
- 19:18 13/04/2009
- 18:39 13/04/2009
- 18:18 13/04/2009
A three-year-old girl believed to have been kidnapped by her Russian mother in France last month will be returned to her French father, the Russian embassy in Hungary said on Monday.
- 16:26 13/04/2009
The Russian embassy in Budapest said on Monday that a Russian mother accused of abducting her 3-year-old daughter from her French former husband had been detained in Hungary and that the child was with her.
- 16:19 13/04/2009
- 15:49 13/04/2009
Three Moscow police officers have been sacked for driving on Red Square in the Russian capital, while drunk, a law enforcement spokesman said on Monday.
- 15:30 13/04/2009
Activists from the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi (Ours) sent on Monday an airline ticket to Washington and luggage containing rotten roses for Georgia's pro-Western leader, a group member said.
- 14:44 13/04/2009
Russia's Gazprom has demanded that Ukraine pay a fine of around $530 million for its failure to import the contracted volume of natural gas, business daily Kommersant Ukraina reported on Monday.
- 13:53 13/04/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved regulations on Monday for granting subsidies to air carriers which will see some 5 billion rubles ($150 million) being allocated from the budget for these purposes in 2009.
- 12:17 13/04/2009
Surgeons in Russia's Urals Region were staggered to find a 5-centimeter high spruce growing inside a man's lung, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported on Monday.
- 11:53 13/04/2009
- 11:52 13/04/2009
The Russian-British oil venture TNK-BP is interested in buying oil producer Sibir Energy for 2.3 billion British pounds ($3.38 billion), a business paper reported on Monday.
- 11:13 13/04/2009
Latvian Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins said on Monday he hoped that the country's President Valdis Zatlers will be able to visit Russia later in 2009.
- 10:19 13/04/2009
- 10:14 13/04/2009
Moscow police are searching for two men who attacked a car repair cashier and made off with a bag containing 2 million rubles ($59,608), a police source told RIA Novosti on Monday.
- 09:55 13/04/2009
A soldier in Chechnya killed his platoon commander and two other soldiers before turning his weapon on himself, a police source told RIA Novosti on Monday.
