| December 2009 |
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Russia condemned on Saturday the demolition of a memorial to WWII heroes in Georgia as an act of barbarism and state vandalism.
The UN climate conference in Copenhagen has produced little tangible results, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed Saturday to create a single economic space by January 1, 2012. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Five people were killed in a traffic accident in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory on early Saturday.
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.



