- 21:44 21/04/2009
The United Nations conference on racism which opened in Geneva on Monday should give an impetus to the struggle against intolerance, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday. 
- 21:20 21/04/2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday criticized a speech made by Iran's outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN World Conference Against Racism in Geneva.
- 21:06 21/04/2009
The French father, whose 3-year-old daughter was snatched last month by her Russian mother, said he is against joint custody but in favor of visitation rights as long as he has a guarantee the girl will return to France.
- 19:21 21/04/2009
The official number of the unemployed people in Russia currently stands at 2.26 million, the country's Health and Social Development Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 17:54 21/04/2009
A member of an illegal armed gang that targeted law enforcement officers in Ingushetia has been shot dead in the North Caucasus republic's Nazran District, security services said Tuesday.
- 17:52 21/04/2009
- 16:51 21/04/2009
Russia is planning to complete the construction of a third-generation nuclear-powered icebreaker by 2015, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Tuesday.
- 16:50 21/04/2009
Danish trainer Michael Laudrup, fired by Spartak Moscow last week, could be appointed manager of Real Madrid, reports in the Russian and Spanish media said on Tuesday.
- 16:08 21/04/2009
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov played down on Tuesday reports of impending terrorist attacks, saying the security situation in the south Russian republic remained stable and under control.
- 15:06 21/04/2009
A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the release on parole of Svetlana Bakhmina, a mother of three and former lawyer for now defunct oil company Yukos, jailed on embezzlement and tax evasion charges.
- 13:52 21/04/2009
Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev denied all the charges against them in a trial in Moscow on Tuesday.
- 13:39 21/04/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will on Wednesday start adding his blog posts to a community on the LiveJournal social networking site, a Russian daily said, citing a source close to parent company SUP.
- 13:14 21/04/2009
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- 12:29 21/04/2009
Russia's foreign minister is to visit North Korea on Thursday for talks likely to focus on tensions over the North's recent rocket launch and its withdrawal from nuclear negotiations.
- 11:57 21/04/2009
- 11:53 21/04/2009
Russia will deliver the modernized Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to the Indian Navy in 2012, a senior shipbuilding industry official has said.
- 11:49 21/04/2009
The ongoing economic crisis has already had an effect on everyone in Russia, from oligarchs to humble office workers, and now even Lenin in his Red Square mausoleum has felt the pinch.
- 11:31 21/04/2009
The first six Mi-28N Night Hunter attack helicopters have been delivered to Russia's North Caucasus military district, a military source said on Tuesday.
