- 22:14 04/09/2009
Finance ministers comprising the BRIC union - Brazil, Russia, India and China - urged the international community on Friday not to curb anti-crisis strategies amid the unstable global economic situation.
- 21:04 04/09/2009
Two Moscow-based co-founders of a yacht importing company have been formally charged with large-scale smuggling, their defense lawyer said on Friday.
- 20:32 04/09/2009
A Georgian journalist and his family, who earlier criticized Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's political regime, have requested political asylum in South Ossetia, the foreign minister said on Friday.
- 20:09 04/09/2009
Georgia officially opened a check point located on its border with Russia on Friday.
- 19:44 04/09/2009
More than 3,200 people have died from swine flu worldwide, with the total number of officially confirmed cases reaching 271,000, Russia's consumer watchdog said on Friday citing a World Health Organization report.
- 18:43 04/09/2009
Thousands of Kaliningrad residents welcomed on Friday the Kruzenshtern sailing ship, which returned to her home port in Russia’s exclave on the Baltic Sea, a spokeswoman said.
- 17:03 04/09/2009
Gazprom confirmed on Friday that Ukraine had paid for Russian natural gas deliveries to the country for August.
- 16:49 04/09/2009
A senior legislator said on Friday that Russia may be forced to "take a break" from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe if a Georgian proposal to deprive Moscow of its voting rights goes ahead.
- 14:57 04/09/2009
A crew of Indian submariners will take part in sea trials of a Russian nuclear submarine in mid-September.
- 12:54 04/09/2009
Russia's energy ministry has requested 9.6 billion rubles ($303 million) from the 2010 budget to repair a South Siberian hydropower plant hit by a deadly accident on August 17
- 00:04 04/09/2009
