- 20:55 05/10/2009
Greece's president asked George Papandreou to form a government on Monday after his Socialist party won a decisive victory over the ruling conservatives in early elections, state television reported.
- 20:52 05/10/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged on Monday to save the country's largest carmaker AvtoVAZ from closure.
- 19:03 05/10/2009
Moscow authorities have resolved to build the city's first garbage reprocessing facilities instead of opening more incineration plants, a deputy mayor said on Monday.
- 17:59 05/10/2009
The leader of Russia's volatile southern republic of Ingushetia dismissed the government on Monday, citing its failure to tackle socio-economic problems and corruption.
- 17:47 05/10/2009
Norway's Telenor and Russia's Alfa Group said on Monday they were ending their long-running legal dispute and combining their mobile phone holdings in Russia and Ukraine into a single company.
- 17:32 05/10/2009
Russia's Sevmash shipyard will start the construction of the fourth Borey class (Project 955) strategic submarine on December 22, a Sevmash press secretary said Monday.
- 17:18 05/10/2009
The leader of Russia's volatile southern republic of Ingushetia dismissed the government on Monday, citing its failure to tackle socio-economic problems and corruption.
- 15:58 05/10/2009
Russian coastguard patrol boats and Black Sea Fleet warships will escort freight vessels carrying supplies to Abkhazia, a source in Russia's security services said on Monday.
- 15:39 05/10/2009
Alrosa, Russia's largest diamond miner, said on Monday it sold diamonds worth $1.34 billion in January-September 2009, including sales to Russia's State Depository for Precious Metals.
- 15:22 05/10/2009
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Monday against pitting Russia's president against the prime minister.
- 14:29 05/10/2009
Power Machines, Russia's leading energy equipment producer, said on Monday its net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards increased 240% year-on-year in January-June to $53.1 million.
- 14:21 05/10/2009
A U.S.-based subsidiary of Yukos, declared bankrupt in 2006, intends to sue the Russian government for a record $100 billion in the Strasbourg Court, the Yukos former finance director said on Monday.
- 13:16 05/10/2009
Russia is ready to extend a loan to Serbia and is considering the possibility of granting a loan to Bulgaria, the Russian finance minister said on Monday.
- 12:36 05/10/2009
Russia will not disburse the last $500 million tranche of a $2 billion stabilization loan to Belarus and will not grant a $5 billion loan to Ukraine, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday.
- 12:26 05/10/2009
A "special form" of relations with Russia is anticipated when Austria chairs the UN Security Council in November, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said on Monday.
- 11:35 05/10/2009
Net capital outflow from Russia came in at less than $10 billion in the third quarter of the current year, the first deputy head of the Central Bank said on Monday.
- 11:28 05/10/2009
Russia's largest truck maker, KamAZ, restarted its main assembly line on Monday after a freeze since September 29, the company's PR department said.
- 10:59 05/10/2009
Belgrade anticipates financial aid from Moscow, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said in an interview with a Russian daily ahead of his Moscow visit.
- 10:28 05/10/2009
Authorities from the former Georgian republic of Abkhazia will order passports in Russia giving its citizens the ability to travel abroad, a Russian daily reported on Monday.
