- 19:40 24/07/2009
Russian military ships will not be involved in anti-piracy operations under the command of NATO or the European Union, Russia's permanent envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
- 19:05 24/07/2009
Russia's government defense contracts will grow somewhat in 2010 compared with this year, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday.
- 18:33 24/07/2009
Georgia's entry to NATO is impossible as long as its new borders have not been defined, the Russian envoy to NATO said on Friday dismissing U.S. pledges on the ex-Soviet state's ambition.
- 18:17 24/07/2009
Beijing supports Russia's anti-smuggling operation at Moscow's notorious Cherkizovsky market, where many Chinese traders were employed, the Russian investigation committee cited a Chinese delegation head as saying on Friday.
- 16:33 24/07/2009
Consultations with Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev are scheduled to continue in a week or two in London, the speaker of Chechnya's parliament said on Friday after talks in Oslo.
- 16:18 24/07/2009
Construction of a second Project 885 Yasen (Graney) class nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine started on Friday at the Sevmash shipyard in northern Russia, the company said.
- 14:15 24/07/2009
A court in the Eastern Siberian city of Chita took away the parental rights of the mother and father of a girl who was "raised" by dogs and cats, an aide to the local prosecutor said on Friday.
- 14:06 24/07/2009
Russia will respond harshly to any actions by foreign countries that threaten the interests of its citizens, the Russian president said on Friday.
- 12:58 24/07/2009
Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, who lives in self-imposed exile in Britain, could announce on Friday his voluntary return to Russia, a Russian business daily said.
- 12:04 24/07/2009
The three remaining bodies were removed on Friday from the rubble of a collapsed residential building in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan, a local emergencies spokesperson said.
- 11:41 24/07/2009
The Thai authorities have promised to handle the extradition case of arms dealer Viktor Bout objectively and without politicizing the situation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 11:14 24/07/2009
A dummy rocket launched from a Russian combat ship in the Far East landed in the courtyard of a nine-story apartment building in Vladivostok, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Friday.
- 10:41 24/07/2009
Russia's 2010 federal budget deficit could be 3 trillion rubles (96 billion), one third of which is to be bridged by borrowing, a source close to the Finance Ministry said on Friday.
- 10:02 24/07/2009
Final sea trials of Russia's Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine, which was damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, are continuing on schedule, a shipyard official said on Friday.
- 09:47 24/07/2009
A Russian Soyuz-U carrier rocket will lift off on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan with the Progress M-67 space freighter for the International Space Station (ISS).
- 09:29 24/07/2009
