- 21:14 22/07/2009
Washington has little cause for concern over a possible nuclear link between two rogue states in southeast Asia, a Russian expert on arms control said on Wednesday.
- 20:06 22/07/2009
The Belarusian section of a diesel pipeline from Russia to Latvia is expected to resume operation on August 5 following regular maintenance procedures, the Russian government's press service said on Wednesday.
- 18:57 22/07/2009
Russia's Security Council will discuss a series of projects on the development of supercomputers to test the effectiveness of the country's nuclear deterrent, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
- 18:27 22/07/2009
Russia will allocate over 120 billion rubles ($3.8 billion) for a federal program to develop new generation nuclear energy technology in 2010-2012, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
- 18:02 22/07/2009
The Russian government's foreign debt, including liabilities of the former Soviet Union, fell by 3.6% in the first half of 2009 to $39.1 billion, the Finance Ministry said
- 16:42 22/07/2009
A 37-year-old man from Guinea-Bissau is bidding to become Russia's first black elected official, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
- 16:23 22/07/2009
The construction of sports facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will cost Russia 195.3 billion rubles ($6.25 billion), Vice-Premier Dmitry Kozak said on Wednesday.
- 15:58 22/07/2009
Two people are known to be trapped and seven more are unaccounted for after a residential building collapsed in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan earlier on Wednesday, emergencies officials said.
- 15:34 22/07/2009
The head of the research institute that designed the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile resigned after a series of unsuccessful test launches, a defense industry official said on Wednesday.
- 15:23 22/07/2009
Georgia accused Russia on Wednesday of seeking to further destabilize the situation in the Caucasus after a visit by Russia's top security officials to the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia.
- 15:11 22/07/2009
Belarus on Wednesday denied any link between the suspension of the Belarusian section of a petroleum pipeline from Russia to Latvia and Russia's ban on meat imports from Belarus.
- 14:27 22/07/2009
Nine people are still unaccounted for after a residential building collapsed in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan earlier on Wednesday, Russia's top investigative body said.
- 14:03 22/07/2009
A new trial of defendants in the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya will begin on August 5, a lawyer acting for the victim's family said on Wednesday.
- 12:09 22/07/2009
Onexim investment group owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov reached an agreement with RBC Information Systems to buy a controlling stake in the troubled media group for $80 million, Onexim said on Wednesday.
- 11:42 22/07/2009
Six out of eight people on board a Mi-8 helicopter that crashed in southern Russia on Wednesday morning have died, a Russian air navigation service source said.
- 11:33 22/07/2009
Six sailors including two Russians, abducted from a chemical tanker on July 4 in Nigeria and freed on July 21, are in good health, the Russian ambassador to Nigeria, Alexander Polyakov said on Wednesday.
- 10:57 22/07/2009
Kazakhstan has extradited a suspect wanted in Russia in connection with the slaying of a French wine trader and his family in Moscow in April, Russian investigators said on Wednesday.
- 10:02 22/07/2009
The number of Russians who have contracted swine flu has risen to 12, Russia's top sanitary official, Gennady Onishchenko told RIA Novosti.
- 09:02 22/07/2009
Nigerian militants have freed two Russians, abducted from a chemical tanker on July 4, the ambassador to Nigeria said on Wednesday.
