- 21:34 28/03/2006
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- 20:52 28/03/2006
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the March 25 events in the Belarusian capital of Minsk were a failed attempt to repeat the tactics used by opposition forces in several other former Soviet republics to protest election results.
- 20:28 28/03/2006
Mikhail Fradkov spoke to journalists after visiting the plant that will process gas from the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea: "Russia and Norway maintain cooperation in many spheres, oil and gas being the most interesting of them to us as partners."
- 19:50 28/03/2006
The creditor banks of embattled oil giant Yukos have asked to replace a claimant in the company's bankruptcy case, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom Tuesday.
- 19:44 28/03/2006
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday he would attend the upcoming European Union meeting on the Iranian nuclear issue in Berlin.
- 19:18 28/03/2006
A subsidiary of Russia's top civilian nuclear power company said Tuesday it would ensure stable nuclear fuel supplies to South Korea.
- 18:48 28/03/2006
- 18:40 28/03/2006
The Syrdarya station is the country's biggest hydro-electric power plant, at 3,000 megawatts, generating one third of the country's electrical power. It is being privatized under a government program, adopted in 2001, alongside three other major thermal power plants, one of which is near the capital, Tashkent.
- 18:15 28/03/2006
- 17:57 28/03/2006
Ukraine has no outstanding debt on natural gas from its main supplier, the central Asian republic of Turkmenistan, the Ukrainian fuel and energy minister said Tuesday.
- 17:39 28/03/2006
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- 17:16 28/03/2006
The Georgian president said Tuesday that traitors who gave themselves up by May 1 would be exempt from punishment in the wake of a scandal within the ranks of his administration.
- 16:52 28/03/2006
- 16:52 28/03/2006
Ukraine's incumbent leader met with his former bitter rival in the 2004 presidential race Tuesday to discuss the country's parliamentary elections at the weekend, but avoided talking about a possible coalition, an aide to the latter said.
- 16:06 28/03/2006
- 15:46 28/03/2006
"In seeking to build a system of inter-state relations based on principles of equality, friendship, pragmatism, and mutually beneficial cooperation, Russia looks forward to an intensive dialogue with the Ukrainian president, new Cabinet and new Supreme Rada [parliament]," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
- 15:38 28/03/2006
"[The stories] are complete nonsense," Sergei Ivanov told a news conference, referring to a Pentagon report based on what it said are captured Iraqi documents that show Moscow passed intelligence information on U.S. troop movements to Saddam.
