- 14:35 16/10/2008
A man who threatened to blow up a plane flying from Turkey to Russia on October 15 was described as a "temperamental poet" by Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda on Thursday. 
- 14:31 16/10/2008
Abkhazian parliamentarians took part as observers during a session of the parliamentary assembly of the Russia-Belarus Union State of Russia in Moscow on Thursday, a parliamentary source said.
- 14:27 16/10/2008
- 13:36 16/10/2008
Kazakhstan and Russia will soon conduct joint missile defense exercises involving elements of Russia's Space Forces, a senior Kazakh military official said on Thursday.
- 13:11 16/10/2008
- 13:00 16/10/2008
The board of the Chita District Court in East Siberia rejected Thursday an appeal against a lower court decision to deny parole to Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
- 12:55 16/10/2008
North Korea threatened on Thursday to sever all relations with the South unless President Lee Myung-bak ends his "confrontational" policies.
- 12:36 16/10/2008
Russia welcomes the establishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
- 12:26 16/10/2008
Britain is still insisting that Russia hand over Andrei Lugovoi, accused by London of murdering intelligence defector Alexander Litvinenko in London in late 2006, the new U.K. ambassador to Russia said on Thursday.
- 12:05 16/10/2008
The incumbent Azerbaijani president, Ilham Aliyev, has gained 89.04% of the vote in presidential elections, with some 70% of ballots counted, the South Caucasus country's top election official said on Thursday.
- 11:11 16/10/2008
Russian private power companies have applied to the Russian government for $50 billion in loans, a business daily reported on Thursday.
- 10:34 16/10/2008
The leaders of the EU's 27 member states have supported plans for an international summit on the global financial crisis, current EU president Nicolas Sarkozy told journalists in Brussels.
- 10:28 16/10/2008
Russian police are preparing to thwart plans by Georgian terrorists to unleash attacks in major Russian cities in retaliation against Moscow's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a Russian daily said on Thursday.
