- 21:32 24/03/2010
Russia could unite the Urals and Siberian time zones as part of a project to slash the time difference across the country's vast territory, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
- 21:04 24/03/2010
Russia expects that the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), a "gas equivalent" of the OPEC oil cartel, will become an effective tool for coordinating the international gas industry, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
- 20:57 24/03/2010
Moscow may have jumped the gun in announcing that a Russia-U.S. arms control pact was ready to be signed, a White House spokesman indicated on Wednesday.
- 20:33 24/03/2010
A synagogue with a dramatic history has been reopened in the Moscow Region town of Malakhovka five years after burning down, the chief rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, said on Wednesday.
- 20:04 24/03/2010
Russia and China have signed a framework contract for the construction of the second stage of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China, Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly Atomstroyexport said on Wednesday.
- 19:30 24/03/2010
The European public will be able to see ballets staged by Russia's Bolshoi Theatre on cinema screens in real time starting from March 31, the organizers of the project said on Wednesday.
- 19:16 24/03/2010
Two Russian Tu-95MS Bear strategic bombers have carried out a 15-hour routine patrol mission over the Pacific, including near the U.S. Aleutian Islands, an Air Force spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 19:03 24/03/2010
Russia and the United States have synchronized all the documents on a new strategic arms pact, which could be signed in Prague, a Kremlin source said on Wednesday.
- 18:24 24/03/2010
Russia will see a rise in accidents and disasters this year from 2009, an Emergency Ministry report published on Wednesday said.
- 18:08 24/03/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has awarded a Moscow firefighter who died on Saturday while trying to save victims of a fire the title "Hero of Russia", the president's spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 18:04 24/03/2010
Russia's largest private crude producer LUKoil said on Wednesday it hoped to return to its Iran project under more favorable economic conditions.
- 17:45 24/03/2010
Mirax Group will continue the construction of a Moscow skyscraper set to be one of the tallest buildings in Europe, an executive said on Wednesday.
- 17:28 24/03/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia and Qatar, two of the world's largest hydrocarbon producers, should coordinate their activity on global gas and oil markets.
- 17:08 24/03/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted to the lower house of Russia's parliament a draft law offering compensation to those who have suffered from red tape in the courts, local media reported.
- 16:43 24/03/2010
Russia's largest private crude producer LUKoil abandoned the Anaran oil project in Iran due to international sanctions, the company said on Wednesday.
- 16:07 24/03/2010
The growing number of convicts suffering from tuberculosis poses a danger of epidemics in Russian prisons and demands compulsory medical treatment, the head of the medical department of the federal prison service said on Wednesday.
- 15:28 24/03/2010
The coordinator of a project to build a high-tech research and production hub in Russia similar to the U.S. Silicon Valley could select a foreigner as manager, the media reported on Wednesday.
- 14:29 24/03/2010
The lower house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday passed a bill introducing price ceilings for basic pharmaceuticals.
- 14:18 24/03/2010
The lower house of the Russian parliament passed a bill on Wednesday to ban holding suspects of economic crimes in pretrial detention.
