- 23:08 02/10/2009
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko hit out on Friday at what he said was Russia's policy of excluding it from projects to develop its oil and natural gas resources.
- 22:35 02/10/2009
India wants to buy another 50 Sukhoi-30MKI multi-role fighters, an Indian daily reported on Friday.
- 21:50 02/10/2009
Moscow is cautiously optimistic about the results of Geneva talks on Iran's nuclear program, Russia's foreign minister said on Friday.
- 21:27 02/10/2009
Members of the Iran Six group of international negotiators prefer dialogue to threats in talks on Iran's nuclear program, a senior Russian parliamentarian said on Friday.
- 21:22 02/10/2009
Russia could monitor and escort ships in neutral waters heading to Abkhazia to protect them from possible Georgian provocations, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
- 20:18 02/10/2009
A police officer and three militants were killed in a special operation in the Russian North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on Friday, a spokesman for Russia's top investigation body said.
- 19:18 02/10/2009
Russia has decided to extend a moratorium on human cloning that expired two years ago by five years, the health and social development minister said on Friday.
- 19:14 02/10/2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will make her first trip to Russia during a European tour on October 9-15, the U.S. State Department said in a press release on Friday.
- 18:30 02/10/2009
Russia will resist any attempt by Washington to prevent the recognition of Abkhazia by third countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 17:27 02/10/2009
Russia's state-run corporation Rosatom has signed contracts worth $3 billion in total to supply low-enriched uranium to Japan and France, Russian civil nuclear power corporation Atomenergoprom said on Friday.
- 17:24 02/10/2009
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that Belarus did not recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia following the August 2008 conflict in the Caucasus due to the actions of certain forces.
- 17:03 02/10/2009
The U.S. firm Space Adventures said on Friday it will be able to send two space tourists into orbit on Soyuz spacecraft from 2012 onwards.
- 16:47 02/10/2009
A Moscow court rejected on Friday a claim filed by gay activists against the capital's mayor, Yury Luzhkov, for using what they say is an offensive word during a televised program.
- 16:30 02/10/2009
In an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev published in the Vedomosti daily on Friday, the scientists highlighted "the catastrophic state of theoretical science" and put forward proposals to ensure the country's scientific and technological development.
- 15:25 02/10/2009
Belarus has completed the procedures necessary to sign documents on joining a post-Soviet regional security bloc's rapid reaction force, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday.
- 15:24 02/10/2009
Two militants were killed in a special operation in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan on Friday, a spokesman for the region's FSB department said.
- 15:13 02/10/2009
Moscow will host an international conference on Sudan on October 6-7, bringing together politicians, scientists and legal experts to discuss ways to resolve the situation in Darfur.
- 14:52 02/10/2009
A police officer was killed and four injured in a shootout with suspected militants in the Russian North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on Friday, a top Russian investigator said.
- 14:18 02/10/2009
Former Russian deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov said on Friday he is "pleased" to be sued by Yelena Baturina, the wife of Moscow's mayor and the richest woman in Russia.
