- 23:03 18/09/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev supports the solving of complex international issues on a multi-party level but does not believe the G20 format is universal.
- 21:47 18/09/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a televised interview on Friday that the human rights situation in the country was "far from perfect."
- 21:30 18/09/2009
Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is being blocked by a number of countries, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday in an interview with Swiss media ahead of his visit to Bern.
- 21:27 18/09/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the popular portrayal of him and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin a "young liberal lawyer" and KGB "spy" is incorrect as they both have a lot in common in reality.
- 21:15 18/09/2009
More than 4,000 people have died from swine flu worldwide, with the total number of officially confirmed cases reaching 295,000, Russia's consumer watchdog said citing a World Health Organization report
- 21:07 18/09/2009
In its perception of Russia, the West has yet to completely get rid of its "Cold War" stereotypes, the Russian president said on Friday.
- 20:56 18/09/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated Russia's northwest city of Veliky Novgorod with its 1,150th anniversary.
- 20:32 18/09/2009
Linking the U.S., NATO and Russia missile-defense systems is a feasible proposal, Russia's envoy to the North Atlantic alliance said on Friday.
- 20:01 18/09/2009
LUKoil is ready to hand over its assets in Venezuela to a Russian oil consortium provided the company receives compensation for its outlay, the head of Russia's largest independent oil producer said on Friday.
- 19:03 18/09/2009
The total number of registered HIV cases in Russia since 1987 has reached half a million, Russia's chief sanitary official said on Friday.
- 18:30 18/09/2009
The creation of several global reserve currencies would not harm the interests of the United States.
- 18:04 18/09/2009
Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program may be resumed but with only four parties, excluding Russia and Japan, a leading Russian expert on Korea told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 17:43 18/09/2009
The president of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya issued a statement on the government website pledging that militant leaders operating in the republic would be eliminated within a year or "starve to death."
- 17:26 18/09/2009
A hotel that will be constructed on an artificial island in the Black Sea near Sochi must be better than the Burj Al Arab hotel in the United Arab Emirates, the Russian premier said on Friday.
- 16:56 18/09/2009
Russia's prime minister on Friday welcomed the $17 billion in direct foreign investment that came into Russia in the first half of 2009, and vowed that the country would continue to attract investors.
- 16:45 18/09/2009
Russia's next national census, originally scheduled for October 2010, has been postponed to 2013 due to the economic crisis, a spokesman for Russian statistics service Rosstat said on Friday.
- 16:23 18/09/2009
Russia and NATO should pool their expertise and work together on missile defense, the secretary general of the North Atlantic alliance said on Friday.
- 16:15 18/09/2009
The first phase of joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises began on Friday with the involvement of some 100 aircraft and 12,600 military personnel, the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced.
- 15:40 18/09/2009
Russia's prime minister said on Friday he expects the United States to back a joint bid by Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to join the WTO after its "brave" decision to scrap missile defense plans for Europe.
