- 20:14 17/07/2009
Russia supports continued dialogue to solve Lebanon's domestic disputes, taking into account the interests of all Lebanese people, Russia's special envoy to the Middle East said on Friday.
- 20:08 17/07/2009
Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov plans to sue the director of a human rights group that accused him of being behind the murder of activist Natalya Estemirova, the leader's spokesman said on Friday.
- 17:51 17/07/2009
Thousands of supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi demonstrated in Tehran on Friday after a powerful cleric delivered a sermon casting doubt on the recent election.
- 17:34 17/07/2009
A four-hectare floating island in a reservoir shared by Russia and Estonia was destroyed on Friday, after it approached high-voltage cables leading to a hydropower plant, a local power utility said.
- 16:44 17/07/2009
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has called allegations that he was responsible for the murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova "unethical."
- 16:05 17/07/2009
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two journalists who were killed when a motorboat sank in the Ob River in northwest Siberia in early July, a local emergencies spokesman said on Friday.
- 12:54 17/07/2009
Submersibles involved in research in Siberia's Lake Baikal have brought to the surface some 5 kilograms (11 lbs) of gas hydrates, a expedition participant told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 12:38 17/07/2009
Russia should continue test launches of the new Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile despite a series of failures, a defense industry source said on Friday.
- 12:37 17/07/2009
The head of Ingushetia's Security Council has told RIA Novosti media reports that either the republic's sports minister or his deputy were assassinated on Friday are false.
- 11:30 17/07/2009
The president of the south Russian republic of Ingushetia, who was seriously injured in an assassination attempt, will be able to return to his duties after his recovery, a doctor said on Friday.
- 10:34 17/07/2009
Three new swine flu cases have been confirmed in Russia, bringing the total number to seven, Russia's chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchenko said on Friday.
- 10:14 17/07/2009
An Ingush government spokeswoman refuted media reports on Friday that the Russian North Caucasus republic's sports and tourism minister had been killed in an attack.
- 09:31 17/07/2009
A police officer has been shot dead in the Chechen capital of Grozny, a police source told RIA Novosti on Friday.
