- 22:04 24/10/2008
Russia's foreign minister said on Friday that the sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia's state-run arms exporter contravene international law, and will harm ties with Washington.
- 21:53 24/10/2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has proposed building a new Russian church in Caracas, the chief spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church said Friday.
- 21:38 24/10/2008
- 20:22 24/10/2008
Daylight saving time ends in Russia in the early hours of Sunday, when the country will put clocks back one hour, giving people extra hour in bed.
- 19:37 24/10/2008
Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport on Friday linked the sanctions imposed by the United States on the company with a growth of Russian arms exports.
- 19:02 24/10/2008
- 18:34 24/10/2008
Russia's president appointed on Friday ambassadors to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, cementing support for the Georgian separatist regions Moscow recognized as independent states after the August conflict.
- 18:14 24/10/2008
U.S. sanctions against Russia's state-run arms exporter are retaliation for Moscow's completely legitimate military-technical cooperation with Iran, a Russian MP said on Friday.
- 17:59 24/10/2008
Ukraine has accused Russia of supplying arms to both Abkhazia and Georgia before a five-day conflict over South Ossetia in August, a spokesman for the Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Friday.
- 17:23 24/10/2008
- 17:05 24/10/2008
Russia should start preparing to withdraw its Black Sea Fleet from bases in the Crimea now, because the process could take up to six years, a Ukrainian diplomat said on Friday.
- 16:08 24/10/2008
- 16:02 24/10/2008
Chinese leader Hu Jintao urged European and Asian leaders on Friday to take coordinated efforts to tackle the global credit crisis.
- 15:59 24/10/2008
An opinion poll said on Friday that over 30% of Russians believe that the results of U.S. presidential elections slated for November will make no difference to "tense" Russia-U.S. relations.
- 15:31 24/10/2008
China's first museum of sex education for women, enlightening visitors on human reproduction and male sexual psychology, has opened in the southern city of Guangzhou, the China Daily reported on Friday.
- 15:30 24/10/2008
Ilham Aliyev was inaugurated for his second term as Azerbaijan's president on Friday, just over a week after his re-election in a poll boycotted by some opposition parties.
- 15:04 24/10/2008
Ministers of the 13 OPEC member states, who gathered in the Austrian capital Vienna earlier on Friday, announced oil production cuts of 1.5 million barrels per day amid a global financial crisis and falling oil prices.
- 14:52 24/10/2008
The sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia's state-run arms exporter contravene international law and will affect ties with Washington, Russia's foreign minister said Friday.
- 14:18 24/10/2008
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah denied on Friday rumors that its leader Hassan Nasrallah was poisoned.
