- 22:18 16/02/2010
The natural decline of Russia's population in 2009 went down by almost a third, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
- 20:56 16/02/2010
The Russian government is planning to increase tenfold fines for firms manufacturing substandard products, a first deputy prime minister said Tuesday.
- 18:20 16/02/2010
Moscow authorities have allocated a plot of land on Poklonnaya Hill, a WWII memorial in the Russian capital's west for a Buddhist temple, a deputy Moscow mayor said Tuesday.
- 18:09 16/02/2010
Outgoing Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said on Tuesday he was leaving office happy after serving his country's independence, but was ready to return as premier in a new government.
- 17:43 16/02/2010
Russian parliamentarians and U.S. congressmen will discuss plans to deploy elements of a U.S. missile defense system in Romania and Bulgaria, a senior Russian MP said Tuesday.
- 16:50 16/02/2010
Russia does not rule out new sanctions against Iran, the Kremlin spokeswoman said Tuesday amid mounting Western pressure for fresh sanctions against the Islamic state.
- 15:35 16/02/2010
Gazprom and Bulgaria are set to sign an agreement on a joint venture that will clear the way for the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline across the southeast European state, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday.
- 15:10 16/02/2010
Russian prosecutors demanded a life sentence for a former senior police officer who killed two and injured seven in a drunk shooting spree in Moscow last year, a RIA correspondent reported from the courtroom on Tuesday.
- 14:35 16/02/2010
President Dmitry Medvedev does not rule out new sanctions against Iran, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
- 13:56 16/02/2010
Construction work for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games is not harming the environment, state building corporation Olympstroy said on Tuesday
- 13:54 16/02/2010
The Russian government intends to hold auctions in the coming months to offer stakes in state companies as part of a program to privatize government shareholdings, a Kremlin economic aide said on Tuesday.
- 13:47 16/02/2010
Several countries are considering creating their national anti-aircraft defense systems using solely Russian weapons, a spokesman for Russia's leading interceptor missile producer said on Tuesday.
- 12:37 16/02/2010
Two police officials in a city just outside Moscow are under investigation on suspicion of drug dealing, investigators said on Monday adding to a string of recent scandals over police abuses.
- 12:29 16/02/2010
The Russian government intends to hold auctions in the coming months to offer stakes in state companies as part of a program to privatize government corporations, a Kremlin economic aide said on Tuesday.
- 12:16 16/02/2010
Russia's envoy to NATO has poured cold water on an offer by Moldova's unrecognized republic of Transdnestr to deploy Russian missile defense elements.
- 10:55 16/02/2010
Over 50,000 people in Russia's Perm Region are without water for a second day on Tuesday after a tributary of the Volga was contaminated with an unidentified substance.
- 10:14 16/02/2010
Russia's police force is holding talks with France's Panhard General Defense on the purchase of VBL light armored vehicles, a Russian business daily reported Tuesday.
- 09:06 16/02/2010
Police in south Russian have detained the hacker responsible for the broadcast of a hardcore porn clip on a central Moscow advertising screen last month, a paper said on Tuesday.
