- 21:11 07/07/2009
Items from the art collection of Russia's Romanov royal family are to go under the hammer at Sotheby's in November, the auction house said on Tuesday.
- 21:05 07/07/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama met with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday during his visit to Moscow, the head of the Gorbachev Foundation press service said.
- 20:47 07/07/2009
Moscow will have the right to inspect U.S. military planes flying over its territory under a deal with Washington on transit to Afghanistan, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 20:34 07/07/2009
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office said Tuesday it had agreed on closer cooperation with the U.S. Justice Department on a probe into the 2004 murder of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov.
- 20:13 07/07/2009
Moscow hopes that Washington will realize the 'counter productivity' of its plan to deploy elements of U.S. missile shield in central Europe, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 19:54 07/07/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama urged Moscow and Washington on Tuesday to enhance transparency in order to boost investment and bilateral trade for a "better future."
- 19:28 07/07/2009
The daughters of U.S. President Barack Obama visited a Moscow museum complex on Tuesday where they were taught to bake Russian ginger and honey cookies, called pryaniki.
- 18:53 07/07/2009
Moscow will seek WTO membership, but it does not want to lose anything in the process, the Russian president said on Tuesday.
- 18:25 07/07/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared on Tuesday his support for the efforts of U.S. aircraft giant Boeing to develop cooperation with Russian partners.
- 18:04 07/07/2009
A group of South Ossetian women have sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama asking him to help find their children, who they say were abducted by Georgian agents, an official said on Tuesday.
- 17:25 07/07/2009
Western "regret" over the withdrawal of the UN and OSCE missions from the Caucasus is "a hypocritical attempt" to evade responsibility, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 17:19 07/07/2009
Russia expects U.S. President Barack Obama, currently visiting Moscow, to abolish the Soviet-era Jackson-Vanik amendment, which continues to restrict trade between the countries, the foreign minister said.
- 17:10 07/07/2009
LUKoil estimates the oil reserves of the Junin-3 block in Venezuela at 600 million tons, the president of Russia's largest private oil producer said on Tuesday.
- 17:02 07/07/2009
Robert McNamara, who was U.S. defense secretary during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, played an important role as a reformer of the U.S. Armed Forces, a Russian analyst said on Tuesday.
- 17:01 07/07/2009
An infrastructure investment fund which Russia plans to establish with the participation of international financial institutions and Kazakhstan will accumulate up to $1 billion, the Vnesheconombank CEO said on Tuesday.
- 16:50 07/07/2009
Russia's president will put forward Russia's views on the North Korean nuclear dispute, Mideast conflicts, and the economic crisis at the G8 summit later this week, his aide said on Tuesday.
- 16:32 07/07/2009
Russia's largest privately-owned oil producer LUKoil denied on Tuesday media reports that it was planning to purchase or build an oil refinery in the United States.
- 16:16 07/07/2009
Michelle Obama has received a matryoshka, or Russian nesting dolls, as a present from Moscow nuns.
- 15:45 07/07/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Tuesday to consider Russia's concerns on missile defense and to respect Moscow's interests in the post-Soviet space, a senior Russian government official said.
