- 21:29 21/09/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Switzerland on Monday to take a more active role in global efforts to tackle the ongoing economic slump.
- 20:50 21/09/2009
- 19:51 21/09/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his gratitude to Switzerland for its role in mediating between Moscow and Tbilisi on Monday during a two-day official visit to Bern.
- 18:31 21/09/2009
A senior Russian disarmament expert played down on Monday concerns that the U.S. leader's new missile defense initiative could prove more dangerous than the previous Central Europe missile shield plans.
- 17:57 21/09/2009
A missile defense system developed jointly by the world's leading powers could eliminate the global threat of nuclear strikes, a former top Russian military official said on Monday.
- 17:02 21/09/2009
An arbitration court has accepted a bankruptcy suit against the producer of Russia's famed Kalashnikov assault rifles, Russian media reported on Monday.
- 16:56 21/09/2009
Russian and Chinese warships have completed a joint anti-piracy exercise which involved escorting a convoy of 23 merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden, a Pacific Fleet official said on Monday.
- 16:49 21/09/2009
Russian border guards detained four Afghans, who were attempting to cross into Finland through an underground tunnel, a Federal Security Service (FSB) report released on Monday said.
- 16:38 21/09/2009
Russia's largest hydroelectric station, severely damaged in an accident last month, will partially resume work in 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 16:36 21/09/2009
Standard & Poor's has upgraded the long-term credit rating of Russia's third largest mobile firm MegaFon to BBB- from BB+ with a stable outlook, the international rating agency said on Monday.
- 16:02 21/09/2009
The Russian Navy's Iman tanker will deliver material evidence from the Arctic Sea vessel to the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk in October, a high-ranking military official said on Monday.
- 15:03 21/09/2009
Russia will not settle for any new missile defense system unless it has a role in it, the chief of the General Staff said on Monday.
- 14:47 21/09/2009
A Spanish criminal court has granted early release on parole to 15 Russian sailors arrested last year in Spain on drug trafficking charges, the sailors' Russian lawyers said on Monday.
- 14:27 21/09/2009
Russia's health ministry denied on Monday reports of Russia's first swine flu fatality, saying the cause of death was pneumonia.
- 14:05 21/09/2009
Russia and the United States could take up the issue of deploying a joint missile defense system in Europe if Iran develops long-range ballistic missiles, a former top Russian general said on Monday.
- 13:22 21/09/2009
Belarus plans to create its own space agency, and will consider specialists' proposals by the end of the year, Russia's space agency quoted a Belarusian official as saying.
- 13:17 21/09/2009
Unknown gunmen in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia opened fire on a car containing a police officer and two of his brothers, all of whom died at the scene, a police source said on Monday.
- 13:15 21/09/2009
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for his recent suggestion of a return to the presidency in 2012.
- 11:45 21/09/2009
Russia's unemployment rate calculated under International Labor Organization standards fell by 100,000 people to 6.2 million in August, a 1.6% decline month on month, the country's top statistics body said on Monday.
