- 21:54 18/05/2009
South Ossetia has joined Abkhazia in pulling out of the fifth round of Geneva talks on security in the Caucasus, the head of the South Ossetian delegation said Monday.
- 21:47 18/05/2009
Russia intends to reach an "acceptable" arms reduction agreement with the U.S., Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on the eve of Moscow nuclear talks.
- 21:33 18/05/2009
- 21:27 18/05/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet on Tuesday with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to discuss joint projects and other issues, a Kremlin source said on Monday.
- 20:00 18/05/2009
- 18:59 18/05/2009
ussian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a package of measures to fight corruption, the Kremlin said Monday.
- 18:45 18/05/2009
- 18:30 18/05/2009
Russia must strengthen its competitive positions on the global commercial space launch market by expanding its launch facilities and developing new types of carrier rockets, the prime minister said on Monday.
- 18:17 18/05/2009
Russia is ready to participate in and partially finance the modernization of Ukraine's natural gas pipeline system, the Russian energy minister said on Monday.
- 17:50 18/05/2009
- 17:16 18/05/2009
Europe will need not just one but several new gas pipelines, Russia's EU envoy Vladimir Chizhov said on Monday ahead of a Russia-EU summit, but questioned the objectivity of the EU's Eastern Partnership project.
- 16:54 18/05/2009
- 16:46 18/05/2009
The second stage of an expedition to explore the bottom of East Siberia's Lake Baikal will begin on June 15, a Russian government official said on Monday.
- 16:02 18/05/2009
- 15:25 18/05/2009
CSKA Moscow scored a late penalty to beat Zenit St. Petersburg 2-1 on Sunday and take over at the top of the Russian Premier League from Rubin, who scrambled to a 2-2 draw against Amkar in the Urals.
- 15:15 18/05/2009
Russian Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina will meet with EU trade commissioner Catherine Ashton on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg forum in early June, Russia's EU envoy said on Monday.
- 15:13 18/05/2009
The global financial crisis as well as European energy and security issues will be the focus of the upcoming Russia-EU summit, Russia's EU envoy Vladimir Chizhov said on Monday.
- 15:09 18/05/2009
Russian citizen Irina Belenkaya has lost her appeal in a Hungarian court against being extradited to France to stand trial for kidnapping her daughter, her lawyer said on Monday.
- 14:33 18/05/2009
Georgia has said it will protest against a visit by a delegation of Russian lawmakers to Abkhazia, aimed at strengthening ties between Moscow and the republic.
