- 18:31 11/12/2009
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov marked the 15th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War by calling for the Russian North Caucasus republic to continue to move forward.
- 18:12 11/12/2009
The Bulava (SS-NX-30) submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) carries up to 10 MIRV warheads and has a range of over 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles). The three-stage ballistic missile is designed for deployment on new Borey class nuclear-powered strategic submarines
- 16:59 11/12/2009
The ruling United Russia Party has accused an opposition party of holding a luxury banquet during the nationwide day of mourning over the deadly nightclub blaze, which left 141 people dead.
- 15:39 11/12/2009
Russia currently has no plans to sell its greenhouse gas emission quotas, the Kremlin climate change adviser told reporters on Friday.
- 13:30 11/12/2009
A court in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia sentenced a police officer on Friday to two years in prison for killing a journalist in 2008.
- 13:29 11/12/2009
Russia's GDP fell 8.9% in the third quarter year-on-year and grew 13.8% on the second quarter, the Federal Statistics Agency said on Friday.
- 13:08 11/12/2009
Two more victims of a Russian nightclub fire died on Friday bringing the death toll to 141 people, a spokesman for the governor of the Urals Perm region where the tragedy happened said.
- 12:46 11/12/2009
Washington's point man on the North Korean nuclear issue will visit Moscow next week for talks with Russian diplomats, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 11:53 11/12/2009
Russia and the United States will continue talks on a new nuclear arms reduction deal to replace the expired START 1 treaty in Geneva next week, a Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.
- 11:50 11/12/2009
Russia could slightly reduce oil export duty on its Urals blend from the current $271 to $266-268 per metric ton starting in January, a Finance Ministry official said.
- 10:58 11/12/2009
Countries taking part in a UN climate change conference in Denmark are looking to a meeting of leaders later this month to advance a solution to cuts in carbon emissions, a senior Russian delegate said.
- 10:00 11/12/2009
Police officers have shot dead two suspected militants in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a local police spokesman said on Friday.
- 08:42 11/12/2009
A letter addressed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to the Communist leader of the Mongolian People's Republic has been put up for auction at Sotheby's, the auction house said on its website.
- 08:37 11/12/2009
A group of youths have attacked the Moscow office of the popular Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda with smoke bombs and firecrackers, the paper said on its website.
- 07:42 11/12/2009
Russia's Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said inspectors had for years turned a blind eye to breaches of fire safety in a Perm nightclub, where a fire claimed 139 lives last week, a Russian daily said on Friday.
- 06:38 11/12/2009
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko will discuss with his Bulgarian colleagues the implementation of Russian-Bulgarian joint energy projects during his visit to Sophia on Friday, the ministry's press service said.
- 04:10 11/12/2009
Moldova will seek to develop cooperation with Russia and ask the Russian authorities to provide it with a loan, the Moldovan vice premier said ahead of his visit to Moscow on Friday.
- 02:22 11/12/2009
The Commonwealth of Independent States' Economic Council will discuss trade relations between CIS member countries during a meeting due in Moscow on Friday, the CIS executive secretary said.
- 01:30 11/12/2009
Wreckage recently discovered in the Tatar Strait belonged to the Russian military Tu-142 plane that crashed in the area in early November, a search team member has said.
