- 20:10 16/05/2009
Russian companies are ready to participate in building four nuclear power plant units in Turkey, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Saturday after talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
- 19:30 16/05/2009
NATO drills in Georgia have increased tensions and have not contributed to international security, the Russian president said after talks with Italy's prime minister on Saturday.
- 19:14 16/05/2009
The glitzy Eurovision final gets underway later Saturday night at Moscow's Olympiyskiy Indoor Arena and promises to be the most extravagant and flamboyant song contest in Euro history.
- 17:57 16/05/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday he hopes there will be progress on unresolved Russia-U.S. issues at a meeting with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama in July.
- 16:37 16/05/2009
Georgia's former republic of Abkhazia has withdrawn from the fifth round of talks in Geneva planned for May 18-19, Abkhaz Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba said on Saturday.
- 15:59 16/05/2009
Moscow police detained on Saturday about 40 people, who had allegedly taken part in an unsanctioned gay parade, a police spokesman said.
- 14:22 16/05/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met on Saturday outside Moscow to discuss the upcoming G8 summit due to be held in July in Italy.
- 13:11 16/05/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in a TV interview that more regional investment was needed for hospitals and healthcare in the country.
- 12:10 16/05/2009
Two Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional passenger aircraft are due to undergo flight tests in mountainous conditions in Armenia, a Russian deputy prime minister said on Saturday during a two-day visit in Yerevan.
- 11:46 16/05/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will discuss with his Turkish counterpart economic and regional issues, European security and the Nagorny-Karabakh dispute at a meeting in Sochi, a government source said on Saturday.
- 11:20 16/05/2009
Police in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya killed three militants linked to a suicide bomber, who blew himself up on Friday in the capital, the Chechen interior minister said on Saturday.
- 10:32 16/05/2009
A Proton-M rocket with a ProtoStar-2 telecommunication satellite has lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday.
