- 22:08 19/10/2009
- 21:39 19/10/2009
Three Russian oil companies signed an agreement on Monday with Turkey's Calik Enerji and Italy's Eni on a pipeline project to pump Caspian oil to the Mediterranean via Turkey.
- 21:11 19/10/2009
Serbia is close to signing a deal for a $1.5-billion Russian loan, the Balkan country's first deputy prime minister Bozidar Djelic said on Monday.
- 19:23 19/10/2009
The oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom has obtained a medium-term unsecured $500 million loan from a syndicate of banks, Gazprom Neft said in a statement on Monday.
- 19:01 19/10/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a resolution to allocate 4 billion rubles ($136 million) to buy swine flu vaccines.
- 19:01 19/10/2009
Russia's largest car producer, AvtoVAZ, said on Monday it may have to file for bankruptcy due to losses and spiraling debts, but that production will not be halted.
- 18:58 19/10/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that a Japanese minister's recent statement on the territorial dispute over the Kuril islands was out of line with the Japanese leadership's aim of improving dialogue.
- 18:11 19/10/2009
Russia and the EU have started negotiations on the wording of a new partnership and cooperation agreement, the Russian foreign minister said on Monday.
- 18:05 19/10/2009
The Russian branches of seven multinational food and soft drink companies signed a deal on Monday to restrict advertising aimed at children under 12 from 2010.
- 17:42 19/10/2009
Russia guarantees uninterrupted natural gas supplies to Europe, and will solve gas transit problems taking into account the interests of all parties, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 16:51 19/10/2009
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon will pay a state visit to Russia on October 21-23 to discuss bilateral ties, the Central Asian country's presidential administration said on Monday.
- 16:05 19/10/2009
Russia's agricultural watchdog said on Monday it was putting temporary limitations on the import of German and Dutch poultry and Moldovan dry milk containing prohibited and harmful substances.
- 15:31 19/10/2009
Azerbaijan's trade with Russia in the first nine months of the current year rose 28.5% year-on-year to $1.345 billion, Azerbaijan's State Customs Committee said on Monday.
- 15:30 19/10/2009
French retailer Carrefour, which announced plans last week to pull out of the Russian market, said on Monday it would still keep its hypermarket chain in Russia.
- 15:23 19/10/2009
Russia's gross domestic product resumed month-on-month growth in September after a stutter in August, a deputy economics minister said on Monday.
- 14:59 19/10/2009
The number of people confirmed as having the H1N1 virus in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk has grown up to 53, Russian consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Monday.
- 14:20 19/10/2009
A Russian analyst said on Monday further suicide bomb attacks could not be ruled out in Iran as radical groups intensify their activities.
- 12:46 19/10/2009
The arrest of the top law-enforcement official in an east Siberian region could be linked to a smuggling investigation against a Russian jewelry firm, a business paper reported on Monday.
- 12:34 19/10/2009
Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel said on Monday its net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards declined 84%, year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to $439 million.
