- 21:03 28/12/2009
Russia's triumphant Team Kamaz expects to win the Dakar Rally again next year, adding to seven winning titles from the legendary off-road race, one of the team's drivers said on Monday.
- 20:47 28/12/2009
Gazprom signed a contract on Monday to increase natural gas purchases from Uzbekistan by 4.25 billion to 15.5 billion cubic meters in 2010, the Russian state-controlled energy giant said.
- 19:36 28/12/2009
Russia is concerned by the recent clashes between demonstrators and police in Tehran, and calls for restraint and conciliation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 19:16 28/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday the latest parliamentary election showed that the country needs tighter supervision to ensure fair voting.
- 18:38 28/12/2009
Talks on an international climate deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which failed in December, will resume after New Year holidays, Russia's WWF chief said on Monday.
- 18:31 28/12/2009
Gazprom Export, the export arm of energy giant Gazprom, and PetroChina, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), have agreed the basic terms of Russian natural gas supplies to China, Gazprom said Monday.
- 17:28 28/12/2009
Round-the-clock TV news network Russia Today (RT) launched its Spanish channel on Monday, to add to its English and Arabic channels.
- 17:16 28/12/2009
Police have released 15 Kyrgyz minors who had been used as slave laborers at a factory in Noginsk near Moscow, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
- 16:49 28/12/2009
Serbia's state-run gas company Srbijagas and Russian energy giant Gazprom have signed a contract on the supply of up to 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Serbia in 2010, Srbijagas said.
- 16:00 28/12/2009
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month-by-month review of 2009 continues, with September
- 15:58 28/12/2009
Russian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant on charges of office abuse for a police officer, who was fired after posting a video on the web asking Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to launch a nationwide corruption probe.
- 15:57 28/12/2009
New An-124 Ruslan (Condor) heavy-lift transport aircraft could start being delivered to the Russian Air Force in 2014, the contractor said on Monday.
- 15:22 28/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday though the global economic crisis still persists, his country had successfully passed the worst stage of it.
- 15:04 28/12/2009
Germany issued permission on Monday for the construction of Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline in its exclusive economic zone.
- 12:47 28/12/2009
The program of civilian shipbuilding development in the Russian Far East stipulates financing estimated at $5 billion, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 12:46 28/12/2009
Russia is seeking to establish a constructive partnership with Japan, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at talks with his Japanese counterpart on Monday.
- 11:19 28/12/2009
Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, damaged in a fatal accident during tests in November last year, has entered service with the Russian Navy after successfully passing final trials, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said Monday.
- 10:48 28/12/2009
Unidentified assailants have beaten two women to death in southeast Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee website reported on Monday.
- 10:34 28/12/2009
Three thieves have stolen 250 boxes of chewing gum estimated at over 1.7 million rubles ($57,500) from a truck in southern Russia's Stavropol Territory, a police source said on Monday.
