- 23:44 15/10/2009
Almost 100 people have been confirmed as suffering from swine flu in Russia since October 11, the country's top doctor said on Thursday.
- 21:25 15/10/2009
Russian steelmaker Evraz Group said its production fell 13.2% in the third quarter of 2009 year-on-year to 4.2 million tons.
- 21:19 15/10/2009
Finnish police have launched new criminal proceedings against a Russian woman convicted of kidnapping her own son, the woman's spokesman said on Thursday.
- 20:02 15/10/2009
Two of the parties that walked out of Russia's lower house of parliament in protest against Sunday's regional election results have said they will return on Friday.
- 19:47 15/10/2009
Russia is concerned by U.S. missile defense talks with countries outside NATO, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.
- 19:06 15/10/2009
Russian Premier Vladimir Putin drew attention on Thursday to corruption within the country's regulatory bodies
- 18:27 15/10/2009
Clinical trials of a new swine flu vaccine on children, scheduled to start in Russia on October 15, has been postponed for several days, a spokesman for the research center involved in producing the vaccine said on Thursday.
- 18:18 15/10/2009
The speaker of Ukraine's parliament urged the ex-Soviet state on Thursday to resume talks with its neighbors on the establishment of a single economic space within the CIS.
- 18:09 15/10/2009
Russia's state-owned oil producer Rosneft plans to bid for 30 Arctic offshore oil deposits, Rosneft CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov said on Thursday.
- 17:38 15/10/2009
The city government of St. Petersburg has yet to decide on Gazprom's controversial project to build a skyscraper in the historic center, the governor said on Thursday.
- 16:50 15/10/2009
The French oil company Total has received approval from a Russian regulator to purchase a 49% stake in the operator of a gas condensate field in northwest Russia, Total E&P Russia CEO Pierre Nerguararian said on Thursday.
- 16:16 15/10/2009
Russia is set to resume talks on a $150 million loan with Moldova's new government, the president's press secretary said on Thursday.
- 16:01 15/10/2009
Relations between Russia and NATO will be one of the main issues to be discussed at a security conference in the Slovakian capital Bratislava on October 21-22, a NATO spokesman told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 15:46 15/10/2009
Russia's natural gas production declined 18.6%, year-on-year, in January-September to 403 billion cubic meters, the country's top statistics body Rosstat said on Thursday.
- 15:31 15/10/2009
Russian police have uncovered a criminal group that sold fake college diplomas, including from Harvard University in the United States, an Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
- 15:06 15/10/2009
A Moscow court on Thursday extended custody of two men charged with hijacking the Arctic Sea cargo ship in July, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom.
- 14:37 15/10/2009
Russia's GDP may grow 3.1% year-on-year in 2010 as the economy picks up after the problems of 2009, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in an updated forecast on Thursday.
- 14:37 15/10/2009
Russia's president met on Thursday with the sultan of Brunei in Moscow for talks focusing on boosting bilateral trade.
- 14:11 15/10/2009
The Russian Industry Ministry has reversed its position on a state rescue of carmaker AvtoVAZ since advising the government that a bailout would be useless, the prime minister's spokesman said on Thursday.
