- 22:12 16/04/2009
The European Court of Human Rights held its first hearing on Thursday on a case lodged by Georgia against Russia two years ago over alleged human rights violations. 
- 19:16 16/04/2009
A task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet will resume anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa in late April, a Navy spokesman said Thursday.
- 19:13 16/04/2009
Russia's top investigators overruled a decision on Thursday to resume a probe into the 2004 death of Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov.
- 17:31 16/04/2009
- 17:21 16/04/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry welcomed on Thursday the decision by a Hungarian court to keep a Russian woman, accused of kidnapping her daughter from her ex-husband, in detention until an extradition request is issued by France.
- 17:17 16/04/2009
A senior Russian politician has expressed "surprise" and "indignation" at the contents of a report by an influential U.S. think tank that calls for "minimal nuclear deterrence."
- 16:53 16/04/2009
A task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet will resume anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa in late April, a Navy spokesman said on Thursday.
- 16:23 16/04/2009
The Investigation Committee of the Southern Federal District Prosecutor's Office has resumed a probe into the death of Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in 2004, a Russian police source said Thursday.
- 15:51 16/04/2009
The director of Russia's world-famous State Hermitage Museum has given permission for U.S. pop star Madonna to give a concert on Palace Square, the concert promoters said on Thursday.
- 15:16 16/04/2009
- 14:47 16/04/2009
Russia's foreign minister criticized on Thursday NATO's plans to conduct exercises in Georgia, saying they could give the Georgian regime a sense of impunity, and raise tensions in the Caucasus region.
- 14:32 16/04/2009
Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak has been charged with attempted fraud 18 months after he was arrested, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Thursday.
- 13:29 16/04/2009
A Chinese woman, who became ill on a Moscow-bound train, died of acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI), not SARS, investigators said on Thursday.
- 13:25 16/04/2009
A regional court in southern Russia upheld on Thursday the decision of a lower court to refuse former Bolshoi Theater ballerina Anastasia Volochkova to run in the Sochi mayoral elections.
- 13:25 16/04/2009
- 12:53 16/04/2009
The counter-terrorism operation that was launched in Russia's volatile republic of Chechnya in 1999 finished at midnight, the Russian National Anti-terrorism Committee said on Thursday.
- 12:36 16/04/2009
- 12:23 16/04/2009
The European Court of Human Rights is to consider on Thursday a lawsuit filed by Georgia that accuses Russia of illegal arrests and deportation of Georgians from Russia in 2006 and 2007.
- 11:09 16/04/2009
Spartak Moscow have dismissed Danish coach Michael Laudrup after a dismal 3-0 home defeat to cross-town rivals Dynamo in the quarterfinals of the Russian Cup.
