- 21:59 24/06/2009
The head of a Moscow factory caused alarm among local residents when he switched on an air raid alert in order to force a motorist to remove her improperly parked car, Russian media said on Wednesday.
- 21:37 24/06/2009
The issue of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a trilateral customs union member alongside Belarus and Kazakhstan remains unclear, the WTO head said on Wednesday.
- 20:31 24/06/2009
The authorities of Ingushetia and Chechnya will conduct their own joint probe into Monday's assassination attempt on the Ingush president, the Chechen president said on Wednesday.
- 20:23 24/06/2009
Two militants were killed by Russian security forces on Wednesday in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, where a third has taken cover in a house, a spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry said.
- 20:19 24/06/2009
Russia's lower house of parliament adopted a statement on Wednesday declaring peace treaty talks with Japan pointless unless Tokyo cancels amendments to a law on the disputed Kuril Islands.
- 19:50 24/06/2009
The authorities of Ingushetia and Chechnya will conduct their own joint probe into Monday's assassination attempt on the Ingush president, the Chechen president said on Wednesday.
- 18:37 24/06/2009
Mass protests in Iran over alleged electoral fraud will not affect Russia's work on the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, a source in Rosatom said on Wednesday.
- 18:37 24/06/2009
Russia could sell up to 40 fourth-generation diesel-electric submarines to foreign customers by 2015, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
- 18:01 24/06/2009
Russia's lower house of parliament confirmed on Wednesday Sergei Ignatyev as chairman of the Central Bank for a new four-year term.
- 17:29 24/06/2009
The struggle to tackle militant attacks in the Russian Caucuses regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia is continuing to plan, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
- 17:09 24/06/2009
French Total and Russian independent gas producer Novatek are expected to implement a $1 billion project to develop a gas condensate project in northwest Siberia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
- 16:36 24/06/2009
The construction of a second Admiral Gorshkov class frigate will begin this year in St. Petersburg, Russian Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said
- 15:47 24/06/2009
Authorities in the Russian city of Voronezh are trying to establish whether ten billboards displaying Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, violate advertising laws, a popular Russian daily said
- 14:37 24/06/2009
Russia's unmanned Progress M-02M cargo spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on June 30 and later be dropped into the Pacific, mission control said
- 13:12 24/06/2009
Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Wednesday there were no grounds for reviewing natural gas supply and transit contracts with Ukraine.
- 13:04 24/06/2009
Russia's former health and welfare minister, Mikhail Zurabov, who gained notoriety at home for his controversial reforms of benefits for the elderly, has been nominated as ambassador to Ukraine.
- 12:38 24/06/2009
Volcano watchers will get the opportunity to observe Russia's Far East volcanoes in action online from September, the head of a local station said on Wednesday.
- 10:48 24/06/2009
Two people have been killed and six injured in two separate explosions in the southeast of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya in the past 24 hours, a police official said on Wednesday.
- 09:42 24/06/2009
Russia and Nigeria are expected to sign several bilateral energy and legal deals during President Dmitry Medvedev's visit on Wednesday, a Kremlin aide said.
