- 21:55 30/06/2009
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that Russia needs to introduce measures to fight widespread alcoholism and other addictions.
- 21:35 30/06/2009
Ingush President Yunus-bek Yevkurov is showing signs of improvement, but remains in a serious condition after surviving an assassination attempt, a senior Ingush official said on Tuesday.
- 21:26 30/06/2009
Russian political analysts are more skeptical than their U.S. counterparts that Russian-U.S. ties can be "reset" during President Barack Obama's July 6-8 visit to Moscow, a Russian analyst said on Tuesday.
- 19:16 30/06/2009
It is unrealistic to expect the U.S. to scrap its missile-defense plans for Europe, but this does not mean the end of a possible strategic arms reductions deal, a Russian arms expert said on Tuesday.
- 18:51 30/06/2009
A Russian soldier who deserted his unit in South Ossetia in late January and requested asylum in Georgia has been granted refugee status, the Georgian Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
- 17:26 30/06/2009
Russian pipeline operator Transneft said on Tuesday its net profit calculated to International Financial Reporting Standards increased 12%, year-on-year, in 2008 to 72.53 billion rubles ($2.3 billion).
- 16:08 30/06/2009
Russian troops participating in the joint Russian-Chinese antiterrorism exercises will arrive in the deployment area by July 14, the Ground Forces press service said on Tuesday.
- 16:03 30/06/2009
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of sweeping reforms in the late 1980s including measures to fight alcoholism, said Russia needs an extensive new campaign to cut drinking.
- 15:56 30/06/2009
Moscow hopes progress will be made during the U.S. president's visit on July 6-8 both on missile defense and strategic arms cuts, the Russian foreign minister has said.
- 15:18 30/06/2009
Most Russians welcome the relocation of all casinos to special gambling zones, but many will continue to gamble online, according to a survey by Profi Online Research published on Tuesday.
- 14:41 30/06/2009
A 70-meter statue of the apostle Saint Andrew could be erected on the seafront near St. Petersburg, the Kommersant business daily reported
- 14:39 30/06/2009
People in Russia are speaking worse Russian and literacy rates are deteriorating, the culture minister said on Tuesday, suggesting that immigration was partially to blame.
- 14:28 30/06/2009
A Moscow court sentenced a former high-profile investigator, Dmitry Dovgy, to nine years in prison for bribery and abuse of office
- 11:47 30/06/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed condolences in a telegram to his Italian counterpart following an explosion at a railway station
- 11:30 30/06/2009
Russia is ready to purchase Azerbaijani natural gas at a record price of $350 per 1,000 cu m to try and make a rival Western-backed gas pipeline project unfeasible, a business paper reported on Tuesday.
- 10:25 30/06/2009
A senior militant was killed during a special operation in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, the republic's interior minister said on Tuesday.
- 10:17 30/06/2009
A U.S. missile destroyer will arrive on July 1 in the port of Vladivostok in Russia's Far East on a goodwill visit, a U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.
- 09:56 30/06/2009
Coast guards in Sakhalin in Russia's Far East have stopped two foreign vessels on suspicion of poaching crab, a local border control spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 09:21 30/06/2009
A Proton-M rocket with a U.S. telecommunications satellite will be launched on Tuesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency said.
