- 21:25 21/10/2009
Russia's Communist Party will on Thursday hold rallies throughout Russia to protest recent regional elections, the party secretary said Wednesday.
- 20:41 21/10/2009
President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated on Wednesday the Israeli premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, on his 60th birthday, a Kremlin spokesman said.
- 20:06 21/10/2009
Ukraine expects to sign a long-term contract for Russian nuclear fuel supplies before the end of the year, the country's deputy energy minister said on Wednesday.
- 19:57 21/10/2009
Russian oil and petrochemical exporters posted a 45% decrease in revenue in the first nine months of 2009 to $129 billion, the finance minister told the lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
- 19:43 21/10/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Russian-Indian cooperation at a meeting with the country's foreign minister on Wednesday.
- 19:31 21/10/2009
Russia will sustain significant losses if it decides to tear up a contract to deliver S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, an unnamed defense industry official said on Wednesday.
- 18:21 21/10/2009
The lower house of Russia's parliament adopted on Wednesday in the first reading a draft federal budget for 2010 and key budget parameters for the period until 2012.
- 18:04 21/10/2009
Russia's Federal Customs Service said on Wednesday it was ready to sign a deal with the Bank of New York to settle its $22.5 billion money laundering suit against the U.S.-based banking giant.
- 17:43 21/10/2009
The number of people diagnosed with swine flu in Russia has risen to 956, a deputy health minister said on Wednesday.
- 17:19 21/10/2009
Jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky has dismissed President Dmitry Medvedev's modernization program as a farce and an attempt to preserve what he labeled 'tandemocracy.'
- 15:48 21/10/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that government corporations operating in competitive industries in Russia could be transformed into joint stock companies.
- 15:36 21/10/2009
Russia's president said on Wednesday he has no doubt his country will join the World Trade Organization despite delays due to the establishment of a customs union with two other ex-Soviet states.
- 15:11 21/10/2009
VTB Group, Russia's largest banking group, announced on Wednesday a net loss of 31.5 billion rubles ($1.07 billion) in January-June 2009.
- 15:05 21/10/2009
Russian champions Rubin will be greeted by a crowd of rapturous supporters when they arrive at their home city of Kazan on Wednesday night, after stunning the football world with a memorable victory over Barcelona.
- 13:17 21/10/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will host a meeting with Russian business leaders on Wednesday, to discuss a strategy to pull the economy out of the ongoing crisis, the business website BFM.ru reported.
- 12:12 21/10/2009
Russia's Communist Party, which earlier walked out of the lower house of parliament in protest against alleged election violations, demanded on Wednesday that the country's election chief resign.
- 11:54 21/10/2009
The Russian government may introduce measures to oblige companies to invest in energy efficiency and other technology projects, a Kremlin aide said on Wednesday.
- 11:25 21/10/2009
A court in Panama has ordered for a Russian-crewed cargo ship stranded off the country's coast since April to be impounded, an International Transport Workers' Federation official said on Wednesday.
- 10:53 21/10/2009
Two contract servicemen were injured in Chechnya when unidentified militants opened fire on their vehicles, a police source said.
