- 22:05 15/06/2009
Russia will do everything possible for a modern political system to take root in Afghanistan, President Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai.
- 22:00 15/06/2009
Russia's chief doctor Gennady Onishchenko said on Monday that the return of the Belarusian dairy products to the Russian market will take a significant amount of time.
- 21:12 15/06/2009
Russian soprano Yekaterina Shcherbachenko has been named the BBC Singer of the World 2009 after winning the world's most prestigious operatic competition in Cardiff, the broadcaster said.
- 20:07 15/06/2009
The volume of Russian arms exports in 2009 will exceed $8 billion, the head of Russia's delegation to the International Paris Air Show said Monday.
- 18:34 15/06/2009
A Russian lesbian couple filed on Monday a lawsuit with a Tver court protesting the decision by a local registry office to reject their application to marry.
- 18:04 15/06/2009
Russia would like to expand sales of such warplanes as the Su-34 throughout the world, President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Chinese TV released on Monday.
- 17:47 15/06/2009
The creation of the Russian Arctic nature reserve could compensate for the damage to the dwindling polar bear population from global warming, the director of WWF-Russia said on Monday.
- 17:28 15/06/2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will arrive in Russia on Tuesday for a regional summit that began on Monday, a source at Iran's embassy in Moscow said.
- 17:05 15/06/2009
Russia moved on Monday to heal a trade rift with Belarus, with the Foreign Ministry reaffirming its commitment to stronger ties and premier warning officials against harsh statements directed at Minsk.
- 16:50 15/06/2009
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich has bought the world's largest privately owned yacht for 300 million euros ($420 million), the Bild newspaper said.
- 16:29 15/06/2009
The BRIC format of the world's four leading emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China - should be expanded to include Indonesia, Morgan Stanley analysts said in a report on Monday.
- 16:20 15/06/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview released on Monday that governing in partnership with his predecessor, current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has proved effective.
- 15:31 15/06/2009
Sea trials of the Nerpa nuclear-propelled submarine, which was damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, will resume in late June, the director of the Amur shipyard in Russia's Far East said on Monday.
- 15:26 15/06/2009
Russia has no plans to hold dialogue with Georgia's current regime, but would be ready to resume talks with a new leadership after elections, the Russian president said.
- 14:26 15/06/2009
The TNK-BP board of directors has approved a $377 million increase in organic investment in 2009, the Russian-British joint oil venture said on Monday.
- 13:54 15/06/2009
Russia is in talks with France on a joint project to develop a heavy-lift helicopter and sell advanced artillery ammunition, the head of Russia's Federal Service for Military Cooperation said on Monday.
- 13:19 15/06/2009
Pakistan wants to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the country's president told a Russian business daily ahead of the group's summit in Russia's Urals.
- 12:39 15/06/2009
The global economic crisis has not been resolved, but it has prompted Russia to work harder to diversify its economy to avoid similar developments in the future, the Russian president said.
- 12:20 15/06/2009
A Russian diplomat gave a cautious reaction on Monday to the Israeli premier's speech conceding the possibility of a Palestinian state, saying the conditions he had laid out would not help resolve the conflict.
