| October 2009 |
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Russia and China have confirmed readiness to boost cooperation in energy industry, including gas and coal mining, a source in the Russian delegation said Sunday.
The Russian and Armenian presidents will discuss trade and military cooperation, prospects of energy projects and interaction in regional organizations in Moscow on Monday, a Kremlin source said Sunday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday identified priorities for the domestic economy's modernization, with energy efficiency, information technology, civilian nuclear energy and pharmaceuticals outlined as target areas.
Polls open on Sunday for about 30 million Russians to vote in regional elections. 
The launch of a Progress space freighter to the International Space Station planned for late 2009 has been postponed until 2010, the Russian rocket and space corporation Energia said on Sunday.
The number of people injured in a railway accident in western Russia has risen to 88 cases, the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft's reentry capsule with Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and space tourist Guy Laliberte aboard safely landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday.
Fifty three people were injured, eight of them seriously, when a diesel locomotive collided with a passenger train in Russia's west city of Tambov.
The Russian manned Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and space tourist Guy Laliberte undocked from the International Space Station in the early hours of Sunday and headed for Earth.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin will take part in the fifth round of Russian-Chinese energy talks in China's capital Beijing on Sunday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take part in a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of heads of government in China's capital, Beijing, on October 14.



