- 22:39 20/01/2010
Police in Russia's Leningrad Region have detained a pregnant woman whose son died in hospital after she punished him for eating honey without permission, the local prosecutor's office said.
- 22:11 20/01/2010
An event to commemorate Holocaust victims will take place in a war-time Jewish ghetto southwest of Moscow on January 27, an international remembrance day, a Jewish charity in Russia said on Wednesday.
- 22:01 20/01/2010
New charges have been brought against a Russian police officer who posted video messages online urging a nationwide crackdown on corruption, a top investigator said on Wednesday.
- 19:52 20/01/2010
U.S. Patriot missiles will be stationed in northern Poland about 60 miles (100 km) from the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad rather than near Warsaw, the Polish defense minister said on Wednesday.
- 19:29 20/01/2010
A Russian journalist who spent almost two weeks in a coma after he was beaten and sexually assaulted at a sobering-up facility died on Wednesday, a doctor in the West Siberian city of Tomsk said.
- 18:26 20/01/2010
Thailand, a major chicken exporter in Southeast Asia, is prepared to supply poultry to Russia to compensate for U.S. imports that fail to comply with Russian standards, Russia's agricultural regulator said on Wednesday.
- 18:02 20/01/2010
RIA Novosti on Wednesday expressed its strong disagreement with the decision of a Moscow court, who found one of the agency's photojournalists guilty of taking part in an unsanctioned protest in Moscow.
- 16:45 20/01/2010
Ukraine's outgoing president, Viktor Yushchenko, said on Wednesday he will not leave politics despite finishing fifth in Sunday's presidential elections.
- 16:27 20/01/2010
Russia's Union of Journalists on Wednesday gave its support for a RIA Novosti photo correspondent fined by a court on the charges of participating in an unsanctioned opposition meeting.
- 16:10 20/01/2010
A new earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
- 15:15 20/01/2010
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov intends to create a large ski resort in the republic's southeastern Argun Gorge, which had been a militant stronghold for years, Russian media has said.
- 15:04 20/01/2010
The Nice Superior Court in France has declared Russia to be the rightful owner of St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral.
- 13:28 20/01/2010
A court in Moscow fined on Monday a RIA Novosti photo correspondent, charging him with participating in an unsanctioned opposition meeting.
- 12:14 20/01/2010
Russian and NATO Chiefs of Staffs will meet in Brussels on January 26 for the first time since the improvement in ties between Russia and the alliance, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Wednesday.
- 11:40 20/01/2010
Russian multi-billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov plans to launch mass production of inexpensive electric cars in Russia and has already received the backing of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a business daily reported on Wednesday.
- 10:06 20/01/2010
The Russian Coast Guard after hours of pursuit have detained a Cambodian-flagged vessel on suspicion of poaching crab in the Sea of Okhotsk, a spokesman for the regional Coast Guard said.
- 09:30 20/01/2010
The U.S. may be allowed to continue poultry exports to Russia, but will have to review its chlorine treatment technologies in two or three months, a respected Russian business daily said on Wednesday.
- 04:55 20/01/2010
Policemen killed four suspected militants in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan after they refused to surrender, a spokesman for the local security services said.
- 00:51 20/01/2010
Viktor Zubkov, Russia's first deputy premier, will pay on Wednesday a two-day official visit to Bahrain to discuss bilateral trade and economic relations, a spokesman for the Russian Cabinet said.
