- 23:11 13/12/2009
Russia's chief rabbi and the Moscow mayor kindled the lights of a giant menorah in the center of the capital on Sunday to mark Hanukkah.
- 21:38 13/12/2009
Gas supplies to Russia's North Ossetia were cut off until next morning on Sunday as security forces have been working to defuse an explosive devise planted on the pipeline in nearby Ingushetia, a police official said.
- 20:13 13/12/2009
Challengers to Abkhazia's incumbent president who won Saturday's vote highlighted on Sunday widespread violations and vowed to appeal the results.
- 18:00 13/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold an informal meeting with his visiting Croatian counterpart, Stjepan Mesic, on Monday, the Kremlin said.
- 15:04 13/12/2009
Over 2,000 people gathered in Moscow on Sunday for a jubilee congress of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), which was celebrating the 20th anniversary of its creation.
- 13:59 13/12/2009
Russia hailed on Sunday the results of the presidential elections in the former Georgian republic of Abkhazia, which re-elected incumbent President Sergei Bagapsh.
- 12:07 13/12/2009
A private plane crashed in the Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals, killing all eight people on its board, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday.
- 11:28 13/12/2009
Robbers have seized 3 million rubles ($100,000) from a businessman in east Moscow, police said on Sunday.
- 09:38 13/12/2009
The death toll from last week's nightclub fire in a Russian Urals city has risen to 146, after one more person died in hospital, the Perm administration said on Sunday.
- 04:46 13/12/2009
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic arrives in Moscow on Sunday for a two-day working visit.
- 00:47 13/12/2009
A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
- 00:33 13/12/2009
A RIA Novosti photo correspondent, Andrei Stenin, was detained for a few hours by law enforcers on Saturday when filming an unauthorized opposition rally near the presidential administration building.
