- 18:58 19/12/2009
Russia condemned on Saturday the demolition of a memorial to WWII heroes in Georgia as an act of barbarism and state vandalism.
- 18:01 19/12/2009
The UN climate conference in Copenhagen has produced little tangible results, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.
- 17:19 19/12/2009
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed Saturday to create a single economic space by January 1, 2012.
- 15:22 19/12/2009
Russia's best chess players will vie for a prize fund of 4.11 million rubles ($134,500) in a championship super final scheduled on Saturday in Moscow, the Russian Chess Federation's website reported.
- 14:45 19/12/2009
Josef Stalin's grandson has brought a legal suit against Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy, seeking 10 million rubles ($326,500) in damages, the radio station's website said on Saturday.
- 14:10 19/12/2009
A public viewing to pay last respects to the late Yegor Gaidar, one of the leading architects of free market reforms in post-Soviet Russia, may be prolonged due to the number of people wishing to say good-bye.
- 12:11 19/12/2009
A public viewing to pay last respects to the late Yegor Gaidar, one of the leading architects of free market reforms in post-Soviet Russia, has begun in Moscow.
- 10:21 19/12/2009
Russia's ambassador to Great Britain has refused to pay London some $4.6 million for diplomats driving into the city center because it violates the Vienna Convention on diplomatic privileges and immunity.
- 06:55 19/12/2009
Law enforcers killed a notorious militant leader, Aslan Izrailov, during a special operation in Chechnya, the president of the North Caucasus republic said on Saturday.
- 06:21 19/12/2009
China opened its Consulate-General in Russia's East Siberian city of Irkutsk on Friday to promote regional ties between two countries, Xinhua news agency reported.
- 04:54 19/12/2009
Heads of the pension funds of North Ossetia and Ingushetia were killed after their car crashed into a gas pipeline early on Saturday, an emergencies department spokeswoman said.
- 04:08 19/12/2009
Five people were killed in a traffic accident in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory on early Saturday.
- 03:02 19/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev begins his three-day visit to Kazakhstan on Saturday to discuss a customs union and a single economic space with presidents of Kazakhstan and Belarus.
- 00:00 19/12/2009
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