- 20:57 22/05/2009
A man said earlier on Friday to be the first person in Russia to contract the swine flu virus has told RIA Novosti that he "feels fine."
- 20:03 22/05/2009
A man who was injured when an off-duty police officer opened fire at random in a supermarket in the Russian capital is to sue Moscow authorities for damages, his lawyer said on Friday.
- 20:00 22/05/2009
Russia's Health Ministry said on Friday that the first case of human swine flu infection has been diagnosed in Moscow.
- 19:51 22/05/2009
Metals magnate Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia's richest man, has registered in a Siberian gold mining village, a move that will see his tax contribution go to the local budget, regional authorities said.
- 19:35 22/05/2009
A Russian soldier who deserted from his unit in South Ossetia in late January and requested asylum in Georgia has not yet received refugee status, the Georgian Interior Ministry said on Friday.
- 18:41 22/05/2009
At least one security guard has been killed during an armed robbery on cash couriers in downtown Moscow, Russian investigators said on Friday.
- 18:33 22/05/2009
Speaking after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko, Putin said: "We propose advance payment for transit of our gas to European consumers."
- 17:47 22/05/2009
Russian banks could see around 20% of their debt portfolios running overdue by the end of the year, forcing them to reduce their capital, the head of the Deposit Insurance Agency said on Friday.
- 17:14 22/05/2009
An Italian automobile club's fund, dedicated to 'high ethical and moral values,' held a ceremony on Friday morning at which Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan were honored for ending the Cold War.
- 17:12 22/05/2009
Gazprom and Slovenia have agreed on a deal extending Russian natural gas supplies for another 15 years, the Russian communications and media minister said on Friday.
- 17:05 22/05/2009
The lower house of Russia's parliament has adopted in its third reading a bill to give the upper house the right to directly appoint the head of the Constitutional Court, who will be nominated by the president.
- 16:13 22/05/2009
MTS, Russia's largest mobile phone operator, has reported a US GAAP net loss of $57.7 million.
- 16:09 22/05/2009
Irina Belenkaya, the Russian woman involved in a custody battle with her estranged French husband over their daughter, will be extradited from Hungary to France on May 27, her lawyer said on Friday.
- 16:06 22/05/2009
New figures released on Friday showed Russian unemployment continued to rise in April, increasing by 200,000 to 7.7 million, with 2.3 million officially registered as out of work, the Federal Statistics Service said.
- 15:47 22/05/2009
Members of the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) plan to speed up the setting up of a customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, a Russian deputy economics minister said Friday.
- 15:33 22/05/2009
- 13:16 22/05/2009
Bolivia may order weaponry worth several million dollars from Russia in the near future, a deputy foreign minister said on Friday.
- 11:32 22/05/2009
"We have reaffirmed that we are not going to ratify the Energy Charter, and we are not implementing the Energy Charter Treaty, either," Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said at a news conference after the summit.
- 10:38 22/05/2009
Russia's president said on Friday the EU should consider giving Kiev a loan to ensure that natural gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine are uninterrupted.
