- 21:56 14/07/2009
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday Russia is refusing to hold talks with Kiev on the delimitation of the Kerch Strait.
- 21:25 14/07/2009
A fourth person infected with A/H1N1 has been diagnosed in Russia as the global number of swine flu cases surpassed 113,000 people, Russia's chief sanitary doctor said on Tuesday.
- 21:03 14/07/2009
Last August's war with Georgia over South Ossetia showed that Russia needs to hold more frequent military drills, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.
- 20:56 14/07/2009
Russia has test-launched a second Sineva intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine, the chief of the General Staff said on Tuesday.
- 20:24 14/07/2009
Russia is not planning to abandon its naval base in Sevastopol, Ukraine, but will nevertheless re-enforce Black Sea fleet facilities within Russia, the chief of General Staff said on Tuesday.
- 20:08 14/07/2009
Over 40 militants have been killed or detained in a special operation along the border between Russia's North Caucasus republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya, the Ingush interior minister said on Tuesday.
- 19:47 14/07/2009
About 3,000 troops, 300 armored vehicles and over 40 aircraft and helicopters have arrived for joint Russian-Chinese antiterrorism exercises, a spokesman for the Ground Force said on Tuesday.
- 19:21 14/07/2009
The oil company Slavneft, ranked among Russia's top ten crude producers, posted on Tuesday a 4.8% drop in oil output in the first half of 2009 to 9.4 million metric tons (69 mln bbl).
- 18:45 14/07/2009
The next round of talks between Russia and the United States on a new strategic arms reduction treaty will be held on July 22-24 in Geneva, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 18:35 14/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was shown around the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, at the southern port of Novorossiisk on Tuesday.
- 17:07 14/07/2009
Ukraine should build relations with Russia on principles of equality without sacrificing national interests, which would require a "resetting," the Ukrainian prime minister said on Tuesday.
- 16:42 14/07/2009
Drought has destroyed about 7% of crops in several major Russian grain-growing regions equal to an area of some 3.2 million hectares, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 16:39 14/07/2009
Moscow authorities are unlikely to reopen one of the city's largest markets, which was closed early in July over health and safety violations, a senior official at the consumer watchdog said on Tuesday.
- 15:29 14/07/2009
A roundtable has been held at the UN to pay tribute to ex-Soviet foreign minster Andrei Gromyko ahead of what would have been the 100th birthday of the man labeled "Mister No" in the West.
- 15:22 14/07/2009
Russian and foreign volunteers said on Tuesday they felt well after a 105-day experiment to simulate a flight to Mars at the Institute of Medical and Biological Studies in Moscow.
- 15:01 14/07/2009
The last living daughter of Feodor Chaliapin, Russia's most famous opera singer of the 20th century, has died in Rome at the age of 98, a spokeswoman for a Moscow museum said on Tuesday.
- 14:50 14/07/2009
Russia’s Kruzenshtern sailing ship has left the U.S. port of Boston and headed for Canada’s Halifax, taking part in the final stage of an international tall ships regatta
- 14:36 14/07/2009
Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who was badly injured in a recent assassination attempt, "is recovering," the republic's prime minister said on Tuesday.
- 13:43 14/07/2009
The legislature of the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, which is to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, unanimously approved on Tuesday the city's development plan despite objections from environmentalists.
