- 20:52 31/01/2010
Moscow police detained some 100 people, including several prominent opposition leaders, after an unsanctioned rally in downtown of the Russian capital, a police official said.
- 19:05 31/01/2010
Russia's Deputy Premier Igor Sechin and Venezuelan Oil and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez discussed issues of oil cooperation and export of Russian cars to Venezuela.
- 17:29 31/01/2010
Rescuers saved 28 fishermen as they were carried away on ice floes in the Gulf of Finland near Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg, a spokesman for the local emergencies department said.
- 16:18 31/01/2010
Japan's Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a protest after Russian border guards opened fire at two Japanese fishing vessels off the disputed South Kuril islands.
- 15:28 31/01/2010
Russia will send two more planes with 40 metric tons of humanitarian aid to quake-devastated Haiti, the emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
- 14:50 31/01/2010
Russia's largest independent crude producer LUKoil signed on Sunday a 20-year contract to develop Iraq's massive West Qurna-2 oil field.
- 09:59 31/01/2010
Over 200 children, most of them younger than three years, have been hospitalized with acute intestinal infection in the Magadan Region in the Russian Far East, Rossiya TV channel reported on Sunday.
- 08:09 31/01/2010
A plane carrying Russian doctors who treated residents of quake-hit Haiti took off Saturday and is expected to land Sunday morning at Ramenskoye airport near Moscow, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
- 06:55 31/01/2010
The speaker of the legislature in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar died in a car accident Saturday.
- 06:16 31/01/2010
Some 10,000 residents of Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad took part in a protest rally in downtown Kaliningrad Saturday.
- 00:00 31/01/2010
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