- 23:03 12/12/2009
The number of people killed by a household gas explosion in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Region has reached six, emergencies services said Saturday.
- 21:32 12/12/2009
The Moscow fire safety watchdog has asked courts to close 54 night clubs, discos, cafes and restaurants following joint checks on December 7-11 with police and prosecutors, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Saturday.
- 17:57 12/12/2009
The death toll in last week's deadly blaze at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm has risen to 145 as another young girl died in a hospital, health and emergencies authorities said Saturday.
- 15:36 12/12/2009
Five people including a child died on Saturday in a fire in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Region believed to have been caused by a household gas explosion, local rescuers said.
- 15:26 12/12/2009
Russia's largest independent oil producer LUKoil won an auction on Saturday for a contract to develop one of Iraq's largest oil fields.
- 14:53 12/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet in Moscow with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on December 15, the Kremlin announced on Saturday.
- 14:11 12/12/2009
Prosecutors investigating the causes of last week's deadly fire in a Russian nightclub have said officials at a state inventory service could face charges for failing to check the venue.
- 12:56 12/12/2009
Hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide are expected to tune in to the Miss World final to be held in South Africa on Saturday night, with beauties from over 100 countries competing.
- 09:25 12/12/2009
Another victim of last week's fire in a Russian nightclub has died, bringing the death toll to 143, emergency services in the city of Perm where the tragedy occurred said.
- 05:55 12/12/2009
A typed letter, signed by Soviet leader Josef Stalin and head of government Vyacheslav Molotov, has been sold for $12,500 at an auction in New York.
- 02:35 12/12/2009
Two Russian patrol boats have arrived in Abkhazia to help the former Georgian republic guard its maritime border in the Black Sea.
- 01:28 12/12/2009
Russia marks the 16th anniversary of its Constitution on Saturday although it is not celebrated as a public holiday.
- 00:41 12/12/2009
The Zvezdochka shipyard in northern Russia said on Friday that a recent minor radioactive leak at its storage facility posed no threat to people or environment.
- 00:00 12/12/2009
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