- 21:14 31/07/2009
A Norwegian-registered cargo ship with six Russian and Ukrainian crew sank in a heavy storm in the North Sea off Sweden on Friday.
- 21:09 31/07/2009
Police in central Moscow detained almost 50 protesters, including Eduard Limonov, a leader of the Other Russia opposition coalition, over an attempt to hold an unauthorized march on Friday.
- 20:23 31/07/2009
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, who is in Ukraine on a 10-day visit, has arrived in the Crimean city of Simferopol.
- 20:18 31/07/2009
Concert organizers are pulling out all the stops to ensure Madonna's one stop in Russia for her Sticky & Sweet tour goes off without a hitch, including taking steps to prevent rain falling on the day.
- 19:47 31/07/2009
Two suspected militants were killed in two separate police operations in the Chechen capital of Grozny on Friday, the Russian southern republic's interior minister said.
- 18:31 31/07/2009
The first graduates of a unique two-semester multimedia school of journalism in Moscow received their certificates on Friday.
- 17:23 31/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Friday in Kyrgyzstan for an informal regional security treaty organization summit.
- 15:50 31/07/2009
April is the cruellest month according to T.S. Eliot, but for modern Russia it is undoubtedly August, a time of catastrophe, crisis and political upheaval.
- 15:26 31/07/2009
The Russian and Tajik presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Emomali Rakhmon, led a ceremony on Friday to open a hydroelectric power plant built jointly by the two countries.
- 15:24 31/07/2009
Police have arrested a man in possession of 76 bear paws in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, East Siberia, the local Interior Affairs Department said on Friday.
- 14:59 31/07/2009
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday it would not abandon the development of the troubled Bulava ballistic missile, and that tests could resume in August.
- 14:40 31/07/2009
Russia's ban on kangaroo meat imports is likely to deal a heavy blow to certain rural communities in Australia, and could lead to a dangerous rise in kangaroo populations, a farming lobby group has warned.
- 14:25 31/07/2009
Russian steelmaker Severstal posted a net profit of 6.7 billion rubles ($213.8 million), calculated to Russian Accounting Standards, in the second quarter of the year compared with a net loss of 10.2 billion rubles ($325 million) in the first quarter.
- 14:11 31/07/2009
A Moscow Region court sanctioned the arrest of a man accused of attempting to murder Isa Yamadayev, whose two brothers were gunned down in Moscow and Dubai over a seven-month period, a court spokeswoman said on Friday.
- 13:12 31/07/2009
The president of the south Russian republic of Ingushetia, who survived an assassination attempt last month, could return to work in mid-August, the republic's acting leader said
- 11:46 31/07/2009
Moscow police are conducting a manhunt for the killer of a top manager at one of Russia's largest defense firms, Almaz-Antei, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 10:59 31/07/2009
Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Friday its net profits calculated under Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) decreased 40.8% year-on-year in January-June 2009 to 169 billion rubles ($5.3 billion).
- 10:28 31/07/2009
Russia's Norilsk Nickel announced on Friday a net profit of 52.1 billion rubles ($1.65 billion) according to Russian Accounting Standards for the second quarter of this year.
- 10:01 31/07/2009
Russia's energy minister Sergei Shmatko said on Friday he would pay a visit to Iraq in early August to discuss oil and energy cooperation.
