- 21:58 07/11/2008
The Abkhaz prime minister announced on Friday that the separatist republic was planning to reinforce its border with Georgia, saying that the current situation was similar to the period leading up to the August attack on South Ossetia.
- 21:56 07/11/2008
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the Obama administration in the United States needs far-reaching 'perestroika' reforms to overcome the financial crisis and restore balance in the world.
- 21:24 07/11/2008
- 20:36 07/11/2008
Lithuania's president said on Friday that EU-Russia talks on a new strategic partnership deal cannot resume as Russia has failed to fulfill its obligations under an EU-brokered peace deal with Georgia.
- 20:18 07/11/2008
- 20:05 07/11/2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia was ready to provide economic and political assistance to help Lebanon overcome long-running factional violence.
- 19:29 07/11/2008
Global car making giant General Motors opened an automobile factory in St. Petersburg on Friday, the press service of the northwest Russian city's economic development committee said.
- 18:41 07/11/2008
A task force from Russia's Northern Fleet led by the Pyotr Veliky missile cruiser will visit Venezuela on November 24-30, a spokesman for the Venezuelan Defense Ministry announced Friday.
- 18:32 07/11/2008
Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis will pay a one-day visit to Moscow on November 12 to discuss the aftermath of the August Georgia-Russia conflict, his spokesman said on Friday.
- 18:19 07/11/2008
- 18:04 07/11/2008
Lithuania's president said on Friday that EU-Russia talks on a new strategic partnership deal cannot resume as Russia has failed to fulfill its obligations under an EU-brokered peace deal with Georgia.
- 17:48 07/11/2008
Russian-Indian trade increased 41.6% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2008 to $3.8 billion, a Russian economics ministry spokesperson said on Friday.
- 17:24 07/11/2008
- 17:21 07/11/2008
Russia will open military bases in two Georgian breakaway republics, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in 2009, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
- 17:17 07/11/2008
The announcement by President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia's plans to deploy Iskander missile systems near Poland harms European security, France said on Friday in its role as EU president.
- 17:08 07/11/2008
At least five missile brigades deployed on Russia's western border will be equipped with new Iskander-M short-range missile systems by 2015, a Defense Ministry source said on Friday.
- 16:31 07/11/2008
- 16:10 07/11/2008
A senior North Korean diplomat said the country is ready for dialogue with the U.S., in Pyongyang's first official reaction to the election of Barack Obama.
- 15:56 07/11/2008
