- 21:41 26/09/2008
- 21:05 26/09/2008
Venezuela plans to use most of the $1 bln loan granted by Russia to buy air-defense systems, a Russian military analyst said on Friday.
- 20:52 26/09/2008
A Ukrainian ship seized by pirates off the Somali coast on Thursday contained 33 T-72 tanks along with other armaments that were on their way to Kenya under a contract, Ukraine's defense minister said Friday.
- 20:35 26/09/2008
- 19:59 26/09/2008
The six countries negotiating the Iranian nuclear problem agreed on Friday on a draft UN Security Council resolution on Iran containing no new sanctions, the Russian foreign minister said.
- 19:01 26/09/2008
Venezuela's state oil and natural gas company PDVSA will hold a controlling stake in an oil and gas consortium to be set up with Russia, Russia's energy minister said on Friday.
- 18:59 26/09/2008
Moscow and Kiev did not discuss the Russian Navy leaving the Sevastopol base it rents from Ukraine in 2017 during talks on the Black Sea Fleet that finished Friday, a Russian official said.
- 18:46 26/09/2008
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Russia's Navy has sent a missile frigate to waters off the Somali coast to fight piracy in the region, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.
- 17:02 26/09/2008
Venezuela's state oil and natural gas company PDVSA will hold a controlling stake in an oil and gas consortium to be set up with Russia, Russia's energy minister said on Friday.
- 16:19 26/09/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has failed to learn lessons from the conflict over South Ossetia and still poses a threat to stability in the Caucasus.
- 16:04 26/09/2008
Turkmenistan's new constitution, which was approved on Friday, abolishes the top legislative body, the People's Council, set up by the Central Asian state's previous ruler.
- 15:45 26/09/2008
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- 14:55 26/09/2008
Russia and Venezuela signed Friday two documents on energy cooperation following a meeting of the countries' presidents.
- 14:49 26/09/2008
Kidney stones, apparently caused by melamine-tainted Chinese milk, have been detected in three Taiwanese children, a Hong Kong radio station reported on Friday.
