- 20:55 29/09/2009
Nine pupils in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad were confirmed as suffering from swine flu on Tuesday.
- 19:50 29/09/2009
A PACE commission decided on Tuesday not to adopt a Georgian motion to strip Russia of its voting rights in the organization, the Russian delegation head said.
- 19:07 29/09/2009
A project to pump Russian gas to South Korea through a North Korean pipeline has been suspended due to the deterioration in inter-Korean relations, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.
- 18:15 29/09/2009
Up to five people could have been involved in the recent murder of a Dagestani district administrator in Moscow, a top special investigations committee official said on Tuesday.
- 17:36 29/09/2009
The Russian government could sell its stakes in some companies next year to replenish the budget and will offer large share packages of state corporations in the long term, the finance minister said Tuesday.
- 17:35 29/09/2009
The Soyuz rocket due to take Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte to the International Space Station has been brought to the launch pad at Russia's Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
- 17:11 29/09/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to pay a working visit to China on October 12-14, in response to an invitation from the Chinese president, the government press service reported on Tuesday.
- 16:55 29/09/2009
Russia's state-run civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom will by late 2010 dismantle 191 out of 198 nuclear submarines decommissioned from the Russian Navy, a company executive said on Tuesday.
- 16:25 29/09/2009
New NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will visit Moscow in December, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
- 16:20 29/09/2009
European security, Russia-EU relations, Iran's nuclear program and the Middle East will be discussed, when the foreign and defense ministers from France and Russia meet in Moscow on October 1, Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 16:19 29/09/2009
Iran's missile program cannot but cause Russia to be concerned against the backdrop of the Islamic Republic's unresolved nuclear issues, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
- 16:01 29/09/2009
Moscow believes it would be possible to establish a missile-defense system jointly with NATO, Russia's envoy to the military alliance said on Tuesday.
- 15:35 29/09/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Belarus on Tuesday to inspect the final stage of the Zapad 2009 joint military drills with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko.
- 15:24 29/09/2009
Human error was to blame for a midair collision of two Russian Air Force jets during aerobatic maneuvers near Moscow on August 16 that left two dead, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 15:22 29/09/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay an official visit to Abkhazia on October 2-3, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 15:01 29/09/2009
Moscow authorities are to discuss restricting the height of new buildings in the city center to a 50-meter maximum as part of new regulations on construction and land use, a RIA Novosti correspondent said on Tuesday.
- 14:13 29/09/2009
Russia's GDP is expected to decline around 8% in 2009 or even less, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
- 13:48 29/09/2009
Russia's Central Bank said on Tuesday it could continue its policy of interest rates cuts, following its decision to reduce a key interest rate by 0.5 percentage point.
- 13:41 29/09/2009
Bilateral trade between Russia and India could reach $10 billion in 2010, a Russian deputy prime minister said on Tuesday.
