- 21:57 27/06/2008
- 21:30 27/06/2008
- 21:04 27/06/2008
Relations between Venezuela and Russia have developed into a strategic partnership, the country's vice president said Friday.
- 20:12 27/06/2008
None of the current European organizations, including the OSCE, the EU and NATO, is capable of solving Europe's security problems, the Russian president said Friday.
- 18:06 27/06/2008
Moscow has denied discussing with Tbilisi the division of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia into Russian and Georgian spheres of influence, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
- 17:55 27/06/2008
The Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services (ILS) has started preparations for the first launch of a Proton-M rocket since one partially failed in March, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said Friday.
- 17:03 27/06/2008
Russia and the European Union outlined areas of cooperation at a summit in West Siberia on Friday, including human rights, energy, and regional conflicts.
- 16:06 27/06/2008
Fears of major flooding have prompted the evacuation of some 20,000 people from southwest China's Sichuan province, which was hit by a powerful earthquake in May, the Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
- 16:01 27/06/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry welcomed on Friday the demolition of a cooling tower in North Korea's main nuclear reactor complex at Yongbyon.
- 15:55 27/06/2008
Russia and the European Union have announced in a joint statement the start of talks on a new cooperation agreement as an EU-Russia summit ended in Western Siberia.
- 14:46 27/06/2008
Abkhazia's leadership considers Tbilisi's proposed plan to divide the unrecognized republic into zones of Russian and Georgian influence to be "insane," the republic's foreign minister said on Friday.
- 13:55 27/06/2008
Bill Gates, the world's third richest man, officially stepped down Friday as head of the $40-billion Microsoft empire to concentrate on his charitable foundation.
- 13:01 27/06/2008
Turkmenistan plans to start exporting natural gas to China in 2009, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said on Friday.
- 12:27 27/06/2008
Gazprom is proposing opening a chain of filling stations using natural gas as an alternative car fuel across Europe, the chief of the Russian energy giant said on Friday.
- 12:18 27/06/2008
Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis will pay a visit to Russia on July 1, a source in the organization said on Friday.
- 11:18 27/06/2008
- 10:12 27/06/2008
Japan's foreign minister cautioned that it could be problematic verifying that North Korea has declared all its nuclear programs and is in fact ready to comply with the six-nation denuclearization demands.
- 10:02 27/06/2008
