- 21:56 17/04/2009
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- 21:15 17/04/2009
The Russian Orthodox Church is observing Good Friday on April 17, with church services dedicated to Jesus Christ's crucifixion and burial.
- 21:02 17/04/2009
- 20:06 17/04/2009
North Korea will need at least a year to resume its nuclear program and start producing weapons-grade plutonium, Russian experts said on Friday.
- 19:37 17/04/2009
Russia's ambassador to France held two hours of talks with the father of a Russian-French girl abducted by her mother and a deal is close on the extradition of Irina Belenkaya, a Russian official said on Friday.
- 19:23 17/04/2009
The former Georgian republic of Abkhazia may hold its own military exercises in response to NATO's planned drills in Georgia next month, Abkhazia's leader said on Friday.
- 17:52 17/04/2009
A potential gas deal between Russia and Azerbaijan will help diversify energy supplies and ensure energy security, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
- 17:09 17/04/2009
NATO's decision to hold exercises in Georgia next month threatens to complicate ties with Russia, the Russian president said on Friday.
- 16:28 17/04/2009
- 15:41 17/04/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has described the recent mass public disorder in Moldova as "monstrous," adding that "color revolutions" result only in poverty.
- 15:29 17/04/2009
- 14:34 17/04/2009
Europe may become a strategic market for biofuels for Russia, with an expected total volume of about 40 million tons annually, the CEO of the Biotechnology Corporation said Friday.
- 13:13 17/04/2009
An additional share issue is not being discussed as a measure to help AvtoVAZ amid the ongoing economic crisis after the Russian carmaker received $776 million in state aid, a Renault executive said on Friday.
- 13:06 17/04/2009
Once the world's largest statue, the colossal Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd is in danger of a catastrophic end to its more than four-decade-long existence, Russian media said on Friday.
- 12:14 17/04/2009
The 100 richest Russians have lost $380 billion in the last 12 months as the global economic crisis has sent the values of their assets tumbling, Forbes magazine claimed on Friday.
- 10:09 17/04/2009
Danish coach Michael Laudrup has expressed surprise over his dismissal as trainer of Spartak Moscow just four games into the 2009 Premier League season.
- 09:23 17/04/2009
Moscow police are searching for four men who attacked two Tajik nationals in east Moscow, killing one of them and injuring the other, a police source said on Friday.
