- 21:00 10/07/2009
Russia will lift its veto on the extension of the UN mission in the Caucasus region if its partners adopt a more pragmatic approach, the Russian president said on Friday.
- 20:29 10/07/2009
Mikhail Gorbachev's Independent Democratic Party of Russia will hold its founding congress in early September, the party's executive secretary said on Friday.
- 19:41 10/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday the most realistic option for Russia to join the World Trade Organization was to do so separately, but to agree on common positions with Belarus and Kazakhstan.
- 19:21 10/07/2009
More than 120 tourists set sail Friday on an Arctic cruise on board the world's largest nuclear-powered icebreaker, a spokesman for Russia's Atomflot company said.
- 19:05 10/07/2009
Russia could still deploy tactical missiles in its westernmost exclave if the U.S. goes ahead with its plans for a missile shield in Central Europe, the Russian president said on Friday.
- 19:03 10/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he found it easier to hold discussions with U.S. President Barack Obama than with his predecessor George Bush.
- 19:01 10/07/2009
Drug police in Russia have seized 16 tons of various drugs since the beginning of the year, the head of Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
- 18:23 10/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Japan on Friday to refrain from politicizing the two countries' territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands.
- 18:10 10/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he had been given an example coin of a possible global currency at the G8 summit in Italy, adding that all aspects of reserve currencies were under discussion.
- 17:10 10/07/2009
Russia pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050 on 1990 levels, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday.
- 16:47 10/07/2009
Russia's newest Borey class strategic nuclear submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, has completed the first round of sea trials and is returning to a shipyard in northern Russia, the Sevmash plant said on Friday.
- 16:36 10/07/2009
Russia, the U.S., and France said on Friday they would submit a revised set of proposals on the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh to Armenia and Azerbaijan.
- 16:14 10/07/2009
More than 100,000 people have been left without work by the closure of one of Moscow's largest markets, the head of the Federation of Russian Immigrants said on Friday.
- 15:22 10/07/2009
Russia could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20-30% by 2020-2030, if the political will is there, the head of the economics and environment center of Russia's Higher School of Economics said Friday.
- 14:48 10/07/2009
Local prosecutors have called a mini-skirt ban, introduced at a teacher's college in the southwestern Siberian city of Kemerovo, a violation of students' constitutional rights.
- 14:18 10/07/2009
Russia's Finance Ministry estimated on Friday that the country's budget deficit had increased to 753.6 billion rubles ($23.6 bln) in June from 510.7 billion rubles ($16 bln) in January.
- 13:14 10/07/2009
About 750 residents of the Far Eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk protested on Friday against Japan's claim to four disputed Pacific islands.
- 11:38 10/07/2009
Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin forecast on Friday that capital outflow from Russia will slow next year and 2011 could see capital inflow starting again.
- 10:53 10/07/2009
Russian submersibles involved in deep-water research in Siberia's Lake Baikal could join an international expedition to search for the ancient mythical island of Atlantis, a local environmental official said on Friday.
