- 20:56 05/11/2009
VTB, Russia's second largest bank, announced on Thursday a net profit of 15.52 billion rubles ($533 million) in October, calculated to Russian accounting standards.
- 20:21 05/11/2009
Russia's prime minister thanked Sweden and Finland on Thursday for approving the construction of a Russian-German natural gas pipeline through their economic zones in the Baltic Sea.
- 18:02 05/11/2009
Russia has granted refugee status to a former Georgian officer, a Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) spokesman said on Thursday.
- 17:56 05/11/2009
Russia's prime minister thanked Sweden and Finland on Thursday for approving the construction of a Russian-German natural gas pipeline through their economic zones in the Baltic Sea.
- 17:31 05/11/2009
General Motors' decision not to sell Opel to a Canadian-Russian consortium will not affect Russia's car industry, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 17:20 05/11/2009
Net capital inflow into Russia hit an estimated $10 billion in October, Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukaev said on Thursday.
- 16:54 05/11/2009
Russia's ailing automaker AvtoVAZ requires an additional 5 billion rubles ($170 million) in investment to make competitive products, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 16:49 05/11/2009
One of two suspects detained on suspicion of involvement in the January murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and trainee journalist Anastasia Baburova has confessed, the head of Russia's FSB said on Thursday.
- 15:57 05/11/2009
Russian-Israeli businessman and women's basketball club owner Shabtai Kalmanovich, gunned down on Monday in Moscow, was buried on Thursday in Israel, local media reported.
- 15:34 05/11/2009
Russia will use its Armed Forces outside the country only in extreme circumstances to protect Russian nationals, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
- 15:27 05/11/2009
France's Mistral amphibious assault ship will arrive on an official visit to St. Petersburg on November 23, a senior Russian Navy official said on Thursday.
- 13:58 05/11/2009
A special cargo ship carrying parts of two Russian Soyuz-ST rockets will leave the port of St. Petersburg on November 7, heading to the Kourou space center, the Progress design bureau said Thursday.
- 13:49 05/11/2009
Coca-Cola Company said on Thursday it was delaying the launch of its factory in south Russia until 2010 over problems with the infrastructure and critical remarks from the country's construction supervisory authority.
- 13:15 05/11/2009
A 25-year-old man died of the A/H1N1 virus in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Urals Republic of Bashkortostan, a source from the regional sanitary watchdog said on Thursday
- 10:00 05/11/2009
Russia has reiterated its proposal to the United States to sign a bilateral extradition agreement, the Russian justice minister said.
- 07:42 05/11/2009
The Belarusian parliament is to consider next week the recognition of the two former Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- 06:49 05/11/2009
Police in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East have seized more than one metric tonne of poached red caviar and about 100 kg (220 pounds) of crab meat.
- 04:47 05/11/2009
Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj said the country is ready to cooperate with Russia in all spheres and called for Moscow to develop economic ties with Sarajevo.
- 03:51 05/11/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday, in order to discuss the Bosnian settlement and bilateral relations between Russia and the Balkan state with its top officials.
