- 22:02 15/05/2009
The president of the volatile Russian republic of Chechnya said he was canceling amnesty for militants following a suicide attack in the capital that killed two police officers earlier on Friday.
- 21:29 15/05/2009
- 20:58 15/05/2009
Russian gas monopoly Gazprom signed agreements on Friday with transit states Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Italy to push forward South Stream, another pipeline to pump natural gas to Europe.
- 20:22 15/05/2009
The first round of full-format Russia-U.S. talks on a new strategic arms reduction treaty will be held on May 19-21 in Moscow, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Friday.
- 19:57 15/05/2009
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- 17:33 15/05/2009
Ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 final on May 16 www.en.rian.ru invites its readers to make their choice. You may watch a video of performers and vote for the song you like, and after the official results of the contest are announced, the choice of RIA Novosti readers will be made public according to the voting.
- 15:49 15/05/2009
Chechnya's president said on Friday that organizers of a terrorist attack in the capital planned to spread fear among the Chechen population and praised police officers for preventing mass casualties.
- 15:31 15/05/2009
Russian rail monopoly RZD said on Friday its net loss in the first three months of 2009 calculated to Russian Accounting Standards was 17.1 billion rubles ($532 mln).
- 15:00 15/05/2009
Moscow police will stop any attempts by organizers to hold an unauthorized gay parade due to take place in the Russian capital on May 16, a deputy head of the police public order department said Friday.
- 14:39 15/05/2009
Russia steelmaker Severstal reported a net loss of $644 million calculated to International Financial Reporting Standards, compared with a $470 million profit in the same period of last year.
- 13:48 15/05/2009
Some 150 workers from a Ford car factory near St. Petersburg held a protest rally on Friday against a four-day working week at the plant, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
- 13:19 15/05/2009
Two police officers were killed and three injured in a bomb blast on Friday near the Chechen Interior Ministry in central Grozny, a police spokesman said.
- 12:46 15/05/2009
Russia's proposals for a new European security treaty are not aimed against NATO, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.
- 11:49 15/05/2009
The prime minister of the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan faces criminal charges over alleged illegal land acquisition deals, Russian business daily Vedomosti said on Friday.
- 10:48 15/05/2009
Russia will increase oil export duty from the current $137.7 to $152.8 per metric ton from June 1, in line with trends on global oil markets, a Finance Ministry official said on Friday.
- 09:23 15/05/2009
Sri Lanka has ordered a number of military transport helicopters and other weaponry from Russia, the country's defense secretary said in an exclusive interview with RIA Novosti.
