- 21:37 20/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved amendments to a law on non-governmental organizations simplifying registration and other procedures for them, the Kremlin said on Monday.
- 20:15 20/07/2009
A lawyer for Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has begun legal action against the head of a human-rights group, Oleg Orlov, for slander, a presidential spokesman said on Monday.
- 20:00 20/07/2009
Russia's volatile southern republic of Chechnya has opened its first studio to produce animated movies in the Chechen language on religious and cultural themes.
- 16:42 20/07/2009
Staff at Russian human-rights group Memorial will remain in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, but operations have been suspended following the killing of one its activists, the group's chairman said on Monday.
- 14:33 20/07/2009
An accident on Russia's Volga River is estimated to have dumped over 9 tons of oil into its waters instead of the earlier reported two tons, a regional spokeswoman told RIA Novosti on Monday.
- 14:28 20/07/2009
Russia's general prosecutor and emergencies and interior ministers will visit South Ossetia on Tuesday, the South Ossetian press and media ministry said on Monday.
- 14:15 20/07/2009
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov praised on Monday the U.S.-U.S.S.R. race to the Moon in the 1960s as the "best competition ever in space."
- 13:43 20/07/2009
The official dollar rate set by the Russian Central Bank for July 21 is 31.3733 rubles, down 41 kopeks from Friday, the Central Bank said.
- 13:40 20/07/2009
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus could reopen World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations in September, the Kremlin's WTO point man said on Monday.
- 11:21 20/07/2009
Russia's largest gold mining company, Polyus Gold, does not rule out forming an alliance with a major global gold miner, the CEO of one of the company's major shareholders said on Monday.
- 09:13 20/07/2009
At least 8 people died and 38 were injured in a bus accident in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia early on Monday, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti.
