- 21:06 13/07/2009
The Russian government approved on Monday three economic development scenarios for 2010-12, accepting the moderate scenario as the basis for budget forecasts for the next three years.
- 19:52 13/07/2009
Israelis and Palestinians do not need any outside help to end their conflict, which will be resolved only if the two sides are left alone, a Russian expert on the Middle East said on Monday.
- 18:59 13/07/2009
Gazprom has adjusted its investment program for this year to 775 billion rubles ($23.5 billion), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 18:49 13/07/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called on Monday his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev's visit to South Ossetia "immoral" and "despicable."
- 16:57 13/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in South Ossetia on Monday on his first visit to the former Georgian republic, recognized as independent by Russia last August.
- 16:50 13/07/2009
Russia will rotate its peacekeeping battalion in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdnestr between July 17 and 25, Commander Col. Anatoly Zverev said on Monday.
- 16:34 13/07/2009
Media reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is seriously ill and will soon cede power to his son should be treated with caution, a Russian expert on North Korea said Monday.
- 16:33 13/07/2009
Gazprom's adjusted investment program for 2009 is worth 775 billion rubles ($23.5 billion), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 15:39 13/07/2009
Five of the six parties to the Nabucco gas pipeline project signed on Monday an intergovernmental agreement on the transit of Caspian gas to Europe, skirting Russia.
- 15:20 13/07/2009
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights will consider a complaint from jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the fall this year, the Russian justice minister said on Monday.
- 15:08 13/07/2009
Emergency workers have localized an oil spill in Russia's Volga River using floating barriers, a local emergencies ministry spokesman said on Monday.
- 15:01 13/07/2009
Congo authorities want Russian mini-subs involved in deep-water research into Siberia's Lake Baikal to assist in a study of Lake Tanganyika, a senior official for Russia's Metropol investment company in Congo said.
- 13:15 13/07/2009
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited Russia and Iran on Monday to join the Western-backed Nabucco gas pipeline project intended to pump natural gas to Europe.
- 11:50 13/07/2009
Ford Russia resumed production on Monday at the Vsevolozhsk plant in the country's northwest, while workers at General Motors started their summer holidays.
- 11:36 13/07/2009
Bulgaria has put two major energy projects with Russia on hold until the country's new prime minister-designate Boiko Borisov has carried out a review of outstanding projects, a business daily said on Monday.
- 10:48 13/07/2009
Five militants have been killed in the last 24 hours in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry said on Monday.
- 09:50 13/07/2009
Two police officers are in hospital following an explosion in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a law enforcement source said on Monday.
