- 23:38 24/11/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sacked on Tuesday a number of high-ranking officers after two explosions at an arms depot in the city of Ulyanovsk, in Russia's Volga region.
- 23:38 24/11/2009
Naval weapons depot in the Russian Volga city of Ulyanovsk burst into flames on Friday night.
- 22:51 24/11/2009
Russia's Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz agreed on Tuesday to reduce Russian national gas deliveries by 35% in 2010, from the previously contracted 52 billion cubic meters to 33.75 bcm.
- 22:39 24/11/2009
Rubin drew 0:0 with Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kiev in a snowy Kazan on Tuesday evening and now need to beat Inter Milan in Italy to make the knockout stages of the Champions League.
- 21:58 24/11/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry sent on Tuesday a note of protest to Japan over a document describing the Southern Kuril islands as "territory occupied by Russia."
- 21:28 24/11/2009
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday denied allegations he had "changed" his political "orientation" for the pro-Western, but said the International Monetary Fund is more generous than Russia.
- 20:35 24/11/2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the four men arrested over a drunken high-speed car race in Geneva, which left a Swiss man severely injured, are Russian citizens.
- 20:33 24/11/2009
After a one-day delay, Russia on Tuesday finally launched a Proton-M rocket carrying the European Eutelsat W7 satellite, the Federal Space Agency said.
- 20:30 24/11/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry has dismissed as groundless a recent claim by a U.S. nonproliferation expert that Moscow is helping Iran build nuclear weapons.
- 19:30 24/11/2009
A new test launch of Russia's troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) will be carried out by the end of 2009, a defense industry source said on Tuesday.
- 19:13 24/11/2009
Russia is preparing an answer to an interstate claim brought by Georgia to the Strasbourg Court against Russia's actions in South Ossetia last August, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 18:35 24/11/2009
Iran hopes that Russia will fulfill its contract for the supply of S-300 air defense missile systems, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
- 18:33 24/11/2009
Any further sanctions against Iran are unnecessary until Tehran has provided an official reply to the UN nuclear watchdog's fuel processing proposal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 18:22 24/11/2009
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said on Tuesday the transit fee for Russian natural gas must be increased much more than the earlier reached accords.
- 18:15 24/11/2009
In seeking to reduce Russia's greenhouse gas emissions, energy saving programs are more important than increased reliance on nuclear power, a World Wildlife Fund Russia official said on Tuesday.
- 17:58 24/11/2009
Police killed three militants in a special operation near the border of the Russian North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia on Tuesday, a Chechen representative in the Russian parliament said.
- 17:42 24/11/2009
The Russian and Azerbaijani presidents met in the Volga city of Ulyanovsk on Tuesday for talks expected to focus on bilateral trade and the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
- 17:22 24/11/2009
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will sign a deal on a Customs Union between the three ex-Soviet republics in Minsk on November 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 16:24 24/11/2009
The Japanese government's position on the South Kuril Islands is counterproductive to dialogue on the territorial issue, a senior Russian MP said on Tuesday.
