- 22:44 02/12/2009
Moscow sees the basic points of the U.S. new strategy on Afghanistan outlined by President Barack Obama in his address to the nation on Tuesday night as being positive, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
- 22:07 02/12/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili insists that two Russian experts, who were refused entrance into Georgia on Tuesday, were closely working with the Russian special services.
- 21:38 02/12/2009
Events like the Dubai World debt crisis are likely to continue next year and possibly in 2011, the Russian finance minister said on Wednesday.
- 21:08 02/12/2009
Russia's GDP decrease in 2009 will exceed the forecasted earlier figure of 8.5%, the Russian finance minister said on Wednesday.
- 19:50 02/12/2009
A project co-founded by Russia's top courts and RIA Novosti news agency aims to raise the people's legal awareness and streamline the judicial system, the country's top judges said on Wednesday.
- 19:48 02/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday ordered action to prevent terror attacks on Russia's railways, in particular setting a tight deadline for investigating such accidents.
- 19:34 02/12/2009
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov is doubtful that a bomb attack, which derailed a Russian express train last week killing 26 people and injuring over 90, was carried out on orders from a wanted terrorist, Doka Umarov.
- 18:28 02/12/2009
A team of Russian and German doctors has said that injured Russian bobsleigher Irina Skvortsova, currently in an induced coma, must remain in a German hospital for further treatment.
- 18:23 02/12/2009
President Dmitry Medvedev approved on Wednesday the federal budget for 2010 and basic budget parameters through 2012.
- 17:54 02/12/2009
Dubai World's request for a delay in repayment of a huge bond issue is unlikely to cause a new crisis wave in Russia, a Kremlin economic aide said on Wednesday.
- 17:53 02/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss bilateral economic cooperation with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during his visit to Italy on December 3 and meet with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican, a Kremlin aide said on Wednesday.
- 17:45 02/12/2009
Bulgaria's concerns over the environmental impact of Russia-backed plans for an oil pipeline through its territory may pose problems for the project, Russia's energy minister said.
- 17:14 02/12/2009
A militant was killed on Wednesday in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan in a joint operation by police and security officers, a spokesman for the republic's interior ministry said.
- 16:48 02/12/2009
A senior Belarusian official invited the Russian Orthodox and Catholic Church leaders to have their first meeting in Belarus in efforts to end the 950-year schism.
- 16:31 02/12/2009
RusHydro, Russia's largest hydropower company, said on Wednesday its net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards increased 140%, year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to 17.9 billion rubles ($817 million).
- 15:36 02/12/2009
The North Korean leadership is not yet ready resume six-party talks on its nuclear program, the speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament said after his visit to the country.
- 15:27 02/12/2009
The Russia-NATO Council will go ahead with its ministerial-level meeting on December 4, the Russian foreign minister said on Wednesday.
- 14:53 02/12/2009
A temperature of 8.1 degrees Celsius (46.58 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded in Moscow on Wednesday, the highest for 111 years, the Meteonovosti website said
- 14:20 02/12/2009
Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz will pay about $770 million in December for Russian natural gas deliveries in November, acting Ukrainian Finance Minister Ihor Umanskiy said on Wednesday.
