- 21:45 21/07/2009
UN rights experts have offered Russia help in conducting an investigation into the murder of activist Natalya Estemirova, the UN press service said on Tuesday.
- 19:48 21/07/2009
Nuclear cooperation between Russia and Myanmar is not in conflict with the Nonproliferation Treaty or IAEA requirements, and will move ahead, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 17:25 21/07/2009
Russia is against any arms race in the Arctic, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 17:18 21/07/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet on Wednesday in Thailand on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting, a ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 16:46 21/07/2009
As from Tuesday, Russian law enforcement agencies have the right to inspect all private letters, parcels and other personal postal deliveries.
- 16:26 21/07/2009
The U.S. vice president tours Ukraine and Georgia this week to persuade the two former Soviet states' embattled presidents not to cling on to power, a leading Russian daily said on Tuesday.
- 16:13 21/07/2009
About 320,000 young men are to be drafted into the Russian Armed Forces in the fall of 2009, a deputy chief of the General Staff said on Tuesday.
- 12:57 21/07/2009
Russia's largest truck producer KamAZ announced on Tuesday net profits under Russian Accounting Standards of 54.96 million rubles ($1.8 million) in April-June 2009.
- 11:25 21/07/2009
Police in Russia's Far East have arrested two drug couriers in possession of 10.6 kilograms (23 lbs) of heroin, a spokesman for the Primorye Territory's drug control service said on Tuesday.
- 10:27 21/07/2009
A Russian carrier rocket has successfully put one military and one civilian satellite into orbit, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
- 09:53 21/07/2009
The driver of a bus that crashed in West Siberia's Novosibirsk Region killing eight people has been taken into custody but has refused to answer investigators' questions, police said on Tuesday.
- 09:48 21/07/2009
A traffic police officer was shot dead in the south Russian republic of Daghestan in the early hours of Tuesday, a local police source said.
- 09:07 21/07/2009
A Russian rocket carrying one military and one civilian satellite lifted off on Tuesday from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia, a spokesman for Space Forces said.
