- 21:11 23/04/2009
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay 577,000 euros ($755,000) in compensation to the relatives of nine people who disappeared in Chechnya in 2001 and 2004. 
- 20:21 23/04/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama surpassed Russia's expectations for improvement in bilateral relations during his first 100 days in the office, Russian analysts said on Thursday.
- 19:33 23/04/2009
- 19:14 23/04/2009
The English-language Moscow News weekly hits newsstands on Friday with a fresh design that gives readers a new look of the Russian capital in all its diversity, the paper's editor said on Thursday.
- 18:16 23/04/2009
The Moscow Arbitration Court upheld on Thursday a claim lodged by a subsidiary of state-owned Rosneft for 5.036 billion rubles ($148 million) against Russneft over the illegal purchase of a Yukos asset.
- 17:54 23/04/2009
Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) declined by an annualized 9.5% in January-March 2009, an Economic Development Ministry official said on Thursday.
- 16:09 23/04/2009
Oleg Romantsev, the most successful Russian club coach of the 1990s, made a surprise return to Spartak Moscow on Thursday and said his aim was to return the club to its glory days.
- 15:57 23/04/2009
Guatemala and Nicaragua have introduced a visa-free regime for Russian tourists, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 15:52 23/04/2009
The Russian government allocated $64 million in 2009 to part finance a joint project with India to develop a new military transport plane, a defense industry official said on Thursday.
- 15:36 23/04/2009
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev will pay an official visit to Russia on April 26-28, the Russian government's press service said on Thursday.
- 15:18 23/04/2009
A group of FBI agents is in Moscow to hold talks on possible cooperation with their Russian colleagues in cases involving two suspected mafia leaders, a government daily said on Thursday.
- 14:36 23/04/2009
Russia is not expecting the resumption of six-nation negotiations on Pyongyang's nuclear program, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday after talks with his North Korean counterpart.
- 14:34 23/04/2009
South Korean auto giant Hyundai will start production at a new car plant in St. Petersburg in September 2010, the plant's general contractor said on Thursday.
- 14:14 23/04/2009
Russia will continue contacts with NATO "in a marriage of convenience" despite concerns over the upcoming military exercises in Georgia, Russia's envoy to NATO has said.
- 13:04 23/04/2009
- 12:45 23/04/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in North Korea on a working visit on Thursday amid spiraling tensions over Pyongyang's recent rocket launch and its withdrawal from nuclear negotiations.
- 12:18 23/04/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on May 7 to discuss the START agreement, which expires at the end of this year.
- 11:46 23/04/2009
The son of Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet Union's most infamous serial killer, has been arrested in east Ukraine on attempted murder charges.
- 11:43 23/04/2009
Gazprom and Germany's E.ON could close a deal for the German company to join the development of northwest Siberia's Yuzhno-Russkoye oil and gas field as early as the summer, the E.ON head said on Thursday.
