- 21:02 02/07/2009
Prominent U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz on Thursday called the terms demanded of Russia to join the World Trade Organization "outrageous" and praised Russia for standing up to the global trade body.
- 20:52 02/07/2009
Moscow will discuss a new arms reduction deal with Washington only in connection with U.S. plans for a missile shield in central Europe, the Russian prime minister's spokesman said on Thursday.
- 20:30 02/07/2009
Vladimir Putin will meet with President Barack Obama, who arrives in Moscow on his first visit next week, for talks set to focus on persisting trade hurdles, the Russian premier's spokesman said on Thursday.
- 19:49 02/07/2009
Police and security forces have prevented assassination of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, the North Caucasus republic's interior minister told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 19:43 02/07/2009
Georgia's authorities will take the decision on granting refugee status to a Russian deserter within four months, the Georgian ministry responsible said on Thursday.
- 18:51 02/07/2009
The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia on Thursday pay 39,757 euros in compensation to a Chechen woman whose husband went missing in 2001.
- 18:36 02/07/2009
Russia's natural gas production declined 20.8%, year-on-year, in January-June 2008 to 274.275 billion cubic meters while exports declined 54.55% to 45.523 billion cubic meters, the Energy Ministry said on Thursday.
- 18:02 02/07/2009
Russia is opposed to sanctions against Iran over the recent crackdown on protest rallies following the disputed presidential election, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 17:22 02/07/2009
Police in Russia's Far East said that they have found another child that has been raised by dogs, Ren TV reported on Thursday.
- 16:52 02/07/2009
Russia's Defense Ministry said on Thursday they were holding talks with Georgia on the return of a soldier who requested political asylum in Georgia after leaving his post at a Russian base in South Ossetia.
- 16:48 02/07/2009
Communists in St Petersburg are asking for donations from party members toward the repair of a Lenin statue that was damaged in the city in an explosion in April.
- 16:45 02/07/2009
A respected Russian business daily claimed on Thursday that two drug officers, whose bodies were discovered in the sauna of their Moscow work place, died from a suspected drug overdose.
- 15:46 02/07/2009
The Russian president said on Thursday that modernization of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier should be completed as soon as possible so that it can be delivered to India in 2012.
- 15:36 02/07/2009
The Russian Anti-Monopoly Service said on Thursday it would apply to the Higher Arbitration Tribunal to recover several hundred million U.S. dollars from major Russian oil companies due to price-fixing policies.
- 14:48 02/07/2009
- 14:30 02/07/2009
- 12:07 02/07/2009
An arm injury has forced U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to cancel her visit to Moscow, where she was due to accompany President Barack Obama next week, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said on Thursday.
- 09:49 02/07/2009
Two militants were killed and two police officers injured in a shootout in south Russia's republic of Ingushetia early on Thursday, a local security service spokesman said.
- 09:31 02/07/2009
A traffic police officer who was shot in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan died in hospital early on Thursday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
