- 18:40 18/01/2010
Russia will launch two international satellites as well as a freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) next month from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency said Monday.
- 17:23 18/01/2010
The Russian Armed Forces will be fully equipped with a new-generation mobile command-and-control system by 2012, an industry expert said Monday.
- 16:22 18/01/2010
Fugitive Russian businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev, the former head of mid-sized oil firm RussNeft, has been reelected to the company's board of directors.
- 16:03 18/01/2010
Tens of thousands of Russians in and around Moscow will dive into ice holes on Tuesday, when the Orthodox Church celebrates the baptism of Christ, with temperatures in forecast to plunge below minus 20 Celsius.
- 15:16 18/01/2010
Russia and India are poised to sign a $1.2 billion contract for another 29 MiG-29K fighter jets for the Indian Navy, an Indian daily reported on Monday.
- 15:07 18/01/2010
The Russian government is set to return for the first time during the crisis period a major bank it has rescued from bankruptcy, a business daily reported on Monday.
- 13:02 18/01/2010
Fugitive Russian businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev, the former head of mid-sized oil firm RussNeft, is regaining control of the company in an apparent bid to rescue it from a heavy debt burden, a business daily reported on Monday.
- 12:39 18/01/2010
Joseph Stalin's grandson has called on Ukraine to investigate the officials behind a court case in which the Soviet dictator was found guilty over the Holodomor famine, a Ukrainian daily said on Monday.
- 11:31 18/01/2010
Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and current Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are heading for a runoff on February 7 in Ukraine's presidential vote set to decide the future of a country torn between traditional ties with Russia and a post-Soviet drive westward.
- 01:04 18/01/2010
Some 107,000 people were left without gas due to a blast which occurred at a gas pipeline in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia.
- 00:16 18/01/2010
A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
