- 21:53 03/07/2009
Russia and the U.S. will both benefit from a new strategic arms reduction agreement, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Friday.
- 21:08 03/07/2009
VTB, Russia's second-largest bank, reported a net loss of 26.45 billion rubles ($846 mln) in the first six months of the year, the bank's press service said on Friday.
- 21:06 03/07/2009
Russia's foreign debt fell by $8.4 billion to $475.1 billion in the first six months of 2009, the Central Bank said on Friday.
- 20:40 03/07/2009
Russia is ready for effective cooperation with the new U.S. administration led by President Barack Obama, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 18:59 03/07/2009
An Arab mercenary and terrorist named Mukhanad with ties to al-Qaeda was behind a plot to assassinate Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, the North Caucasus republic's interior minister said on Friday.
- 18:55 03/07/2009
A new law passed by Japan's parliament calling the south Kuril islands a part of Japan is merely a propaganda move, as Russia has no plans to hand the islands over, a Russian expert on the issue said on Friday.
- 17:42 03/07/2009
Russia will work to boost the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and hopes the election of a new director general will advance joint projects, Russia's state nuclear corporation said on Friday.
- 17:34 03/07/2009
St. Petersburg politicians want to take legal action against pop star Madonna after she swore in a taped promo message for her upcoming concert, a government newspaper reported Friday.
- 17:10 03/07/2009
The Kremlin confirmed on Friday that the Russian and U.S. presidents would sign a key framework arms control agreement during President Barack Obama's visit next week.
- 16:44 03/07/2009
Russia and the U.S. will sign deals expanding bilateral military ties and on transit of military supplies via Russia to U.S. troops in Afghanistan during the U.S. president's visit to Moscow, a Kremlin aide said.
- 16:37 03/07/2009
Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who was badly injured in a roadside bomb on June 22, has regained consciousness, a spokesman for Ingushetia's representative in Moscow said on Friday.
- 15:31 03/07/2009
Only 5% of Russians polled in a recent survey believe U.S.-Russian relations are friendly, a pollster said on Friday.
- 15:21 03/07/2009
The investigation in the 2004 murder of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, which was suspended earlier in the year, has been resumed, a top Russian investigator said on Friday.
- 15:19 03/07/2009
Georgia's parliament could introduce a ban on all foreign movies being dubbed into Russian, Azerbaijan's Trend News agency reported on Friday citing a top Georgian lawmaker.
- 15:02 03/07/2009
Russia is setting up a permanent investigation mission in the Gulf of Aden to participate in international efforts to fight piracy at sea off Somalia, the chief investigator said on Friday.
- 14:42 03/07/2009
Russia's security agencies and police are taking heightened security measures ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's first visit to Moscow next week, a security official said on Friday.
- 13:25 03/07/2009
Russian users of social networking sites spent a monthly average of 6.6 hours on the sites in May, more than users in any other country, a Russian business daily said on Friday citing a recent study.
- 12:49 03/07/2009
Russian investigations into Georgia's attack on South Ossetia last August have found that the onslaught killed, injured or damaged the homes of a total of 5,315 people, Russia's chief investigator said on Friday.
- 11:10 03/07/2009
Two troops have been killed and another five wounded by explosions in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, while three police were injured by a roadside bomb in Daghestan, police sources said on Friday.
