- 21:34 04/09/2008
Russia's foreign minister urged Thursday the deployment of "unbiased" observers in South Ossetia. 
- 20:45 04/09/2008
- 20:37 04/09/2008
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will receive Liberty Medal Award in 2008 for his role in ending the Cold War, the U.S. National Constitution Center said.
- 20:30 04/09/2008
The leaders of the Caspian countries will gather for their third summit in Azerbaijan in October or November, Iran's deputy foreign minister said Thursday.
- 19:57 04/09/2008
Serbian President Boris Tadic will meet with Kosovo leader Fatmir Sejdiu only for talks on the region's future status, the Serbian president's press service said Thursday.
- 19:27 04/09/2008
- 18:23 04/09/2008
Japan's accumulated investment in Russia has reached $4-6 billion, a senior Russian economics ministry official said on Thursday.
- 16:56 04/09/2008
Chinese vets have put an Asian elephant who was fed with drugged bananas by animal smugglers through a detox program to cure the animal of his addiction, the Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.
- 16:38 04/09/2008
Ukraine is planning to conduct large-scale air defense exercises with live firing on the Crimean peninsula at the end of September, a Ukrainian navy source said on Thursday.
- 15:16 04/09/2008
The Ukrainian parliamentary speaker said on Thursday the Our Ukraine party, headed by the country's president was pulling out of the pro-western ruling coalition after just nine months in power.
- 15:03 04/09/2008
- 14:59 04/09/2008
- 14:51 04/09/2008
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney urged the "free world" on Thursday to rally with Georgia against what he called Russia's invasion, and pledged to bring Georgia into NATO.
- 14:36 04/09/2008
BP and Russian shareholders at TNK-BP approved a deal Thursday to end their protracted dispute over the joint oil venture's management, including agreeing to remove the CEO and appoint independent executives.
- 14:28 04/09/2008
- 14:20 04/09/2008
Israel imposed an embargo on arms supplies to Tbilisi a week before Georgia attacked its breakaway region of South Ossetia, the Israeli ambassador to Russia said on Thursday.
- 13:51 04/09/2008
NLMK, one of Russia's largest steel producers, said on Thursday it will acquire the U.S. hot-rolled steel producer Beta Steel from a group of private shareholders for an all-cash payment of $400 million.
- 13:21 04/09/2008
- 13:15 04/09/2008
Vanity Fair magazine has ranked Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the world's most influential person in its 'New Establishment' top-100 to be published in the next issue, the magazine said in a statement.
