- 21:18 30/07/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Ukraine had not presented any evidence to back up its claims that Russian diplomats were involved in espionage.
- 21:03 30/07/2009
The Russian, Tajik, Afghan and Pakistani presidents called on the international community on Thursday to take additional steps to fight drug trafficking.
- 20:28 30/07/2009
Moscow dismissed on Thursday comments by a U.S. administration official suggesting that Russia could become a member of NATO.
- 18:44 30/07/2009
South Korea's economics minister along with oil and gas executives will visit Russia in August to discuss the possibility of laying a gas pipeline across North Korea, the Maeil business daily said on Thursday.
- 17:07 30/07/2009
The second stage of new sea trials of Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, will start on July 31, a subsidiary of the Amur shipyard said
- 16:56 30/07/2009
The Russian government has approved the main parameters of the federal budget for 2010-2012, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Thursday.
- 16:29 30/07/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will pay a visit to Turkey on August 6, the Russian government's press service said on Thursday.
- 16:25 30/07/2009
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has said military aircraft will continue to dominate the company's foreign sales in 2009, and will total about $2.6 billion.
- 15:44 30/07/2009
The president of the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoity, told RIA Novosti on Thursday he does not believe that Georgia will attack his country in the future.
- 15:03 30/07/2009
A total of 35 people have been diagnosed with the swine flu virus in Russia, the country's chief sanitary official told Ekho Moskvy radio on Thursday.
- 14:46 30/07/2009
Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov is preparing to return to work a little over a month after surviving an assassination attempt.
- 14:43 30/07/2009
Russian oil company Surgutneftegaz said on Thursday its net profit calculated to Russian Accounting Standards decreased 80% year-on-year in April-June 2009 to 8.47 billion rubles ($266 million).
- 13:53 30/07/2009
A new task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet has arrived in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy off the Somali coast, a fleet spokesman said
- 13:03 30/07/2009
Russia's international reserves, largely holding gold and foreign exchange, increased by $4.3 billion to $402.4 billion in the week of July 17-24, the Central Bank of Russia said on Thursday.
- 12:58 30/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Dushanbe on a two-day working visit on Thursday to meet with his counterparts from Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- 12:46 30/07/2009
A U.S. delegation headed by the coordinator for enforcement of UN sanctions against North Korea, Philip Goldberg, will arrive in Moscow on Monday to discuss measures against the reclusive state.
- 11:05 30/07/2009
Russian pipeline operator Transneft said on Thursday its net profit calculated to Russian Accounting Standards decreased 3.4% , year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to 2.21 billion rubles ($69 million).
- 10:34 30/07/2009
Tajikistan wants Russia to start paying to use a military base on its territory and also wants Russian border guards deployed in the country to leave, a leading business daily reported on Thursday.
