- 20:13 21/05/2009
- 19:44 21/05/2009
Russia and Kazakhstan signed on Thursday a memorandum on establishing a customs union during bilateral negotiations in Astana.
- 18:51 21/05/2009
Russian energy giant Gazprom has paid Ukraine in advance for gas transit to Europe for the rest of 2009, a source in a Russian business delegation on a visit to Kazakhstan said on Thursday.
- 17:32 21/05/2009
Moscow lamented on Thursday remarks by the Japanese prime minister on the "ongoing occupation" of the Southern Kuril islands by Russia.
- 17:18 21/05/2009
The production of a new Russian Mi-38 transport helicopter has been delayed until 2014 due to the expected withdrawal of a Canadian engine maker from the project, the project director said on Thursday.
- 16:58 21/05/2009
Russia hopes artificial obstacles for the work of the Russia-NATO Council will be removed soon, but further steps depend on the other side, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
- 15:41 21/05/2009
Russia's foreign defense orders total $35 billion, a federal official said on Thursday.
- 14:38 21/05/2009
The Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP said on Thursday its US GAAP net profit had dropped 58% year-on-year in January-March 2009 to $747 million.
- 14:30 21/05/2009
Russia's chief investigator urged on Thursday tighter controls for foreigners traveling to the country.
- 14:13 21/05/2009
Eleven women formerly employed as stewardesses with the bankrupt Siberian airline KrasAir have been on a hunger strike for a week in protest at overdue wages, one of the women told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 13:43 21/05/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend an Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting during his Middle East tour on May 23-25, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 10:55 21/05/2009
Despite recent difficulties in relations, the European Union favors "dialogue and engagement" with Moscow, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told RIA Novosti ahead of an EU-Russia summit.
- 10:37 21/05/2009
A senior investigator in the capital of the volatile southern Russian republic of Daghestan was fatally shot on Thursday morning, a local Interior Ministry official said.
- 09:49 21/05/2009
President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk on Thursday for a Russia-EU summit set to focus on natural gas supplies and problems over relations with Georgia.
- 09:21 21/05/2009
A senior investigator in the capital of the volatile southern Russian republic of Daghestan was fatally shot on Thursday morning, a local Interior Ministry official said.
