- 19:04 28/05/2009
Russian state uranium trader Techsnabexport said on Thursday it would sign several contracts on low-enriched uranium supplies with major U.S. energy companies before the end of the year.
- 18:06 28/05/2009
Belarus has turned down a new loan tranche from Russia worth $500 million, insisting that it be denominated in dollars rather than Russian rubles, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Thursday.
- 17:17 28/05/2009
Russia will not object to a new UN resolution on North Korea over the communist state's recent nuclear test, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 16:29 28/05/2009
Nissan will officially open a car factory in St. Petersburg on June 2, the Japanese car giant said
- 16:26 28/05/2009
Extremist groups in Russia including neo-Nazis are actively using the Internet to spread propaganda and recruit new members, contributing to the current rise in racist violence, a state prosecutor said.
- 15:35 28/05/2009
Russia's second largest mobile phone operator VimpelCom announced on Thursday a net loss of 8.5 billion rubles ($271.5 million) in January-March against a profit of 14.59 billion rubles ($466 million) a year ago.
- 14:52 28/05/2009
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has raised its long-term corporate credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on TNK-BP International Ltd. to BB+ from BB, with stable outlook, the international rating agency said on Thursday.
- 14:44 28/05/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama face demanding and complicated games of political chess as he tries to advance Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, a senior Russian senator told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 13:40 28/05/2009
Barcelona star Lionel Messi has been included in an Argentine squad for a match against Russia in Moscow on August 12, Russian football authorities said on Thursday.
- 13:27 28/05/2009
The first Russian-made A-50 Mainstay AWACS aircraft developed on the basis of Il-76MD military transport plane officially entered service on Thursday with the Indian Air Force (IAF).
- 13:06 28/05/2009
Russia's international reserves, which include foreign exchange and gold, have grown to $402 billion as of May 25, the Central Bank chief said on Thursday.
- 12:52 28/05/2009
Thirty-five miners in southern Siberia went on strike on Thursday to demand the payment of some $657,000 in wage arrears, a local trade union head said.
- 12:28 28/05/2009
Russia will increase oil export duty from the current $137.7 to $152.8 per metric ton from June 1, following trends on global oil markets, an official government newspaper said on Thursday.
- 12:03 28/05/2009
Manchester United were lucky to only lose 2-0 to Barcelona in Wednesday's Champions League final in Rome, Tottenham Hotspur's Russian international striker said on Thursday.
- 11:58 28/05/2009
Doctors believe that the girl who was 'raised' by dogs and cats in chilling squalor in the East Siberian city of Chita could soon adapt to a normal life, a psychiatrist said on Thursday.
- 11:38 28/05/2009
X5 Retail Group, Russia's largest food retailer, posted on Thursday a net loss under International Financial Reporting Standards of $82.1 million in January-March against a net profit of $83.3 million a year ago.
- 10:33 28/05/2009
Four militants, holed up in an apartment, were killed during a special operation in Nalchik, capital of Russia's southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, on Thursday, a police official said citing preliminary reports.
- 09:46 28/05/2009
Russia's Irina Belenkaya, embroiled in a high-profile custody battle for her daughter with her estranged French husband, has been released from custody by prosecutors in France and can return to Russia until her trial.
- 09:30 28/05/2009
Police in Nalchik, capital of Russia's southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria are conducting an operation to try and flush out up to four militants, who have barricaded themselves inside an apartment, a police source said on Thursday.
