- 22:00 27/10/2008
Ukraine will receive over $20 billion in foreign loans by the end of 2008 to stabilize its economy amid the global financial crisis, the country's National Bank said Monday. 
- 21:48 27/10/2008
Moscow should pursue "a constructive dialogue" with Washington regardless of the outcome of the November 4 U.S. presidential elections, the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Monday.
- 21:37 27/10/2008
Abkhazia doubts the ability of EU observers in Georgia to play a constructive role in preventing further conflict, Abkhazia's foreign minister said in a letter to the UN Security Council president Monday.
- 20:52 27/10/2008
Russia has called UN Security Council consultations on the situation in the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zones, the UN said on Monday.
- 20:18 27/10/2008
The Amur shipyard in Russia's Far East said on Monday it had started sea trials of a newly built nuclear-powered attack submarine, which according to media reports may be leased to India.
- 20:11 27/10/2008
The quartet of mediators in the Middle East peace process will meet in November in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, president Hosni Mubarak's official spokesman said on Monday.
- 20:06 27/10/2008
Ukrainians are rapidly losing trust in their president, Viktor Yushchenko, according to an opinion poll carried out by the Public Opinion-Ukraine foundation and published on Monday.
- 20:04 27/10/2008
- 19:02 27/10/2008
Russia is greatly concerned over reports that U.S. forces carried out a strike within Syrian territory, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 18:57 27/10/2008
British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson on Monday played down the media storm over his meetings with Russia's richest man, saying the discussions had largely focused on Russia's WTO bid.
- 18:38 27/10/2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili proposed on Monday Grigol Mgaloblishvili, the Georgian ambassador to Turkey, for prime minister.
- 18:07 27/10/2008
- 17:53 27/10/2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke out on Monday against the "tempting" policies of "aggressive protectionism" and restricting the movement of capital during the ongoing financial crisis.
- 17:32 27/10/2008
The supervisory board of the Russian national development bank Vnesheconombank approved on Monday the purchase of 99% of shares in the struggling Globex bank.
- 17:11 27/10/2008
A Russian communist group has attacked the newest Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko, for her "moral and intellectual betrayal" in starring in a film about the "enemy of the Soviet people."
- 16:32 27/10/2008
Russia and Vietnam have signed 12 cooperation documents, including joint ventures for oil and gas exploration, a statement said on Monday.
- 16:30 27/10/2008
- 16:27 27/10/2008
Ukraine's prime minister said on Monday that a contract with Russia for natural gas supplies in 2009 could be signed in November.
- 16:09 27/10/2008
Vietnam is to invest $1.5 billion in the construction of an ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer plant in Kalmykia, a republic on Russia's Caspian coast, Kalmykia's President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said on Monday.
