- 20:50 22/12/2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Monday that his country would become a strong state after it signed a framework agreement on a strategic partnership with the United States. 
- 20:39 22/12/2008
- 20:01 22/12/2008
The Paris Club of creditor nations on Monday canceled half of Iraq's $15.6 billion debt in the final stage of a four-year debt reduction program.
- 18:16 22/12/2008
- 18:12 22/12/2008
Russia is not selling S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, the Russian federal service for military cooperation said in a statement on Monday.
- 17:45 22/12/2008
- 17:24 22/12/2008
Russia and Serbia will sign an oil and gas deal this week allowing Russia's Gazprom Neft to buy a controlling stake in Serbia's NIS, Serbian Deputy Energy Minister Dusan Mrakic said on Monday.
- 17:16 22/12/2008
A Thai court heard testimony from Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout on Monday, and hearings will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday, a Russian Embassy official said.
- 16:58 22/12/2008
- 16:24 22/12/2008
A Russian sailor taken hostage in Nigeria has been released, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Monday.
- 16:00 22/12/2008
- 15:57 22/12/2008
India has not ruled out military operations against terrorists in Pakistan if Islamabad does not deal with terrorists based on its own soil, India's foreign minister told journalists on Monday.
- 15:55 22/12/2008
Belarus has turned to Russia for a 100 billion-ruble ($3.5 billion) loan in exchange for payment in rubles in bilateral trade, a Russian deputy finance minister said on Monday.
- 15:38 22/12/2008
Russia said it is against extending the mandate for the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe mission in Georgia, which expires on December 31, Russia's OSCE envoy said on Monday.
- 15:18 22/12/2008
Russia only sells defensive weapons to Iran, in strict compliance with the international nonproliferation regime, Russia's state-run arms exporter said on Monday.
- 15:08 22/12/2008
- 14:52 22/12/2008
- 14:45 22/12/2008
If Ukraine doesn't pay off some of its debt for Russian-supplied gas it will owe $3.2 billion by the end of the year, a co-owner of the Swiss gas trading firm RosUkrEnergo has warned.
- 14:27 22/12/2008
The completion of the $1 billion Bushehr nuclear power plant, being built by Russia in southern Iran, could be subject to delays, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
