- 22:56 15/12/2009
Chechnya's parliament has voted to establish an Akhmad Kadyrov International Peace Award to commemorate the first Chechen president's peace efforts, the parliamentary press service said on Tuesday.
- 22:38 15/12/2009
The head of Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that Russia expects no problems with Ukraine's payment for Russian natural gas in December.
- 20:54 15/12/2009
Vietnam has signed a deal with Russia to buy submarines, aircraft and other military hardware, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on Tuesday.
- 19:49 15/12/2009
NATO's chief will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday to discuss the situations in Afghanistan and Iran, a European security treaty and a host of other issues, a Kremlin source said.
- 19:06 15/12/2009
The start of construction of Russia's fourth Borey-class nuclear-powered submarine has been postponed from December to the first quarter of next year, a Defense Ministry official said on Tuesday.
- 17:56 15/12/2009
Russian energy giant Gazprom and Vietnam's oil and gas group Petrovietnam signed on Tuesday an agreement on establishing a joint venture.
- 17:19 15/12/2009
Russian scientists believe that the ongoing UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will produce no tangible results, a leading Russian expert said on Tuesday.
- 16:54 15/12/2009
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's visit to Moscow may improve ties between the alliance and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the post-Soviet security group's head believes.
- 16:08 15/12/2009
Tatneft, one of Russia's top 10 crude producers, said on Tuesday its U.S. GAAP net profit increased 55%, year-on-year, in January-September 2009 to 47.15 billion rubles ($1.6 billion).
- 16:05 15/12/2009
Around 30 kilograms of heroin have been seized in an operation in Moscow Region, local drug police said on Tuesday.
- 15:40 15/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received on Tuesday Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and said he was seeking to cooperate on several large projects with the socialist republic.
- 14:30 15/12/2009
A vicious frost held Moscow in its grip on Tuesday as record warm weather at the start of December gave way to temperatures of minus 25 degrees Celsius (-13 degrees Fahrenheit).
- 14:22 15/12/2009
A blacklist of 80 Moscow clubs in violation of fire safety regulations was published on Tuesday by Russia's emergencies ministry, with eight of the venues already closed by court orders.
- 13:52 15/12/2009
Three people are missing in Sochi after a powerful winter storm swept in off the Black Sea and severely damaged a port under construction in Russia's Olympic city.
- 13:31 15/12/2009
A forum of natural gas exporting countries will be fully operational in 2010, Russia's energy minister said on Tuesday.
- 12:10 15/12/2009
The imam of a mosque in the southern republic of Dagestan has been wounded in a drive-by shooting in the city of Khasavurt, a local police spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 11:22 15/12/2009
More than 11 kilograms of heroin have been seized from five people in an operation in Russia's Urals, local drug police said on Tuesday.
- 11:00 15/12/2009
Gazprom has resumed gas supplies to Armenia and Russia's North Caucasus republics of North Ossetia and Ingushetia following a bomb scare, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday.
- 09:46 15/12/2009
The next test launch of Russia's troubled Bulava intercontinental missile could take place in January, an unidentified Defense Ministry official said on Friday.
