- 22:59 25/12/2009
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on Friday highly assessed agreements reached during his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev's visit, Turkmen TV said.
- 21:37 25/12/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described Friday as satisfactory the work to build facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the southern Russian resort city of Sochi despite it progressing ahead of schedule.
- 19:33 25/12/2009
Ukraine has consumed much less natural gas since mid-December, which may mean Kiev is experiencing difficulty in paying for Russian gas supplies, the CEO of Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Friday.
- 18:46 25/12/2009
Georgian airline Airzena announced on Friday it has canceled its proposed charter flights to Moscow on December 26-27.
- 18:39 25/12/2009
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has congratulated Pope Benedict XVI and all those who celebrate Christmas on December 25 in line with the Gregorian calendar.
- 17:49 25/12/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed on Friday a resolution allotting rail monopoly RZD 1 billion rubles ($34 mln) in subsidies for extra security measures.
- 17:03 25/12/2009
The Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow's Alexander Garden to honor the dead of the Great Patriotic War will be temporarily relocated due to repairs, a Kremlin official said Friday.
- 16:00 25/12/2009
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month-by-month review of 2009 continues, with June.
- 15:25 25/12/2009
Russian state-run businesses plan to inject over 2 trillion rubles (about $68 bln) into investment programs in 2010, the same amount as in 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
- 15:12 25/12/2009
The Russian Air Force will start receiving Il-476 heavy transport planes in 2012, the commander of the Russian Air Force's military transport aviation said on Friday.
- 15:02 25/12/2009
More military transport aviation will be used in a large-scale exercises next year than this year, a top Air Force commander said on Friday.
- 14:48 25/12/2009
A lawyer for the grandson of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin said he would appeal a Moscow court decision that rejected a libel suit filed against a newspaper.
- 13:12 25/12/2009
A new U.S.-Russian strategic arms reduction treaty should be signed in the very near future, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 12:55 25/12/2009
A senior Russian Air Force official said he hoped the country's military will begin receiving new An-124 Ruslan (Condor) heavy-lift transport aircraft by 2020.
- 12:26 25/12/2009
The swine flu has stabilized in Russia with the number of people suffering from the A/H1N1 virus declining, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said.
- 12:20 25/12/2009
The implementation of a project to develop a vast gas field in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea is being delayed further, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said Friday.
- 11:32 25/12/2009
The Russian coast guard has detained a Cambodian-flagged vessel with 25 metric tons of live crab on board in the Sea of Okhotsk, a spokesman for the regional Coast Guard said on Friday.
- 11:29 25/12/2009
Two people were wounded after an explosive device went off in an elevator of a residential building in the city of Ulyanovsk, in Russia's Volga Region, an emergencies ministry source said.
- 11:09 25/12/2009
Two Russian Defense Ministry servicemen were injured when a bomb went off near Chechnya's capital of Grozny, a law enforcement source said on Friday.
