- 21:13 26/06/2009
Russian investigators have charged a Chechen woman with involvement in the high-profile kidnapping of the son of an executive at Russian oil giant Rosneft.
- 21:04 26/06/2009
Total and Shell have made it onto the shortlist of participants in the Yamal liquefied gas project in northwest Siberia, a Gazprom deputy CEO said on Friday.
- 20:58 26/06/2009
The quartet of Middle East peace negotiators on Friday confirmed its support for a Moscow peace conference later this year.
- 20:55 26/06/2009
Russia plans to increase investment in mining, construction and space communications projects in Angola, a joint statement by the two countries' presidents said following talks.
- 20:35 26/06/2009
Police in the west Urals are searching for a security guard who stole 250 million rubles ($8 million), a local police spokesman said on Friday.
- 19:43 26/06/2009
Gazprom has sent Belarus a letter demanding it pay $244 million in gas debts, and warning that supplies could be cut if the sum is not cleared, the Russian energy giant's CEO said on Friday.
- 18:41 26/06/2009
Ukraine in June bought just a third of the gas stipulated in contracts - 1.1 billion cubic meters instead of 3.4 billion - but will face no penalties, the Gazprom CEO said on Friday.
- 18:22 26/06/2009
Jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said that he took an enormous risk acquiring the oil firm in the turbulent 1990s, but never regretted the move, he told Gazeta.ru in an interview published on Friday.
- 17:22 26/06/2009
A Moscow Region court sentenced in absentia fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky to 13 years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling 58 million rubles ($1.9 million at current rates) in 1994.
- 17:02 26/06/2009
The world's largest Typhoon-class submarines will remain in service with the Russian Navy, the Navy commander said on Friday.
- 17:00 26/06/2009
Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrial countries meeting in Italy on Friday expressed concern about Iran's nuclear program and stressed the need to continue dialogue.
- 16:25 26/06/2009
Gas contracts with Ukraine will not be revised, despite the Ukrainian president's demands, the head of Russian energy giant Gazprom said at an annual meeting of shareholders on Friday.
- 15:22 26/06/2009
The Russian Imperial House wants to return to Russia to promote civil society and the development of legal bodies, a representative said on Friday in Moscow.
- 15:00 26/06/2009
A Russian-U.S. military cooperation agreement will be signed during President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow in early July, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff said on Friday.
- 14:28 26/06/2009
Russia will fulfill its obligations on schedule to supply three Project 11356 frigates to India by 2012, a shipbuilding industry official said on Friday.
- 14:11 26/06/2009
Gazprom plans to occupy 10% of the British energy market by 2011, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Friday at the Russian energy giant's annual shareholders' meeting.
- 13:41 26/06/2009
Russia will participate in an expected tender to supply diesel-electric submarines to the Indian navy, the Russian state arms exporter said on Friday.
- 13:36 26/06/2009
The South Stream gas pipeline will account for 35% of Russian gas supplies to Europe by 2015, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Friday.
- 12:32 26/06/2009
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport and France's Thales Group agreed on Friday to market jointly-developed naval equipment internationally.
