- 20:42 24/12/2008
Iranian students are making arrangements to hold a shoe-throwing competition in honor of the journalist who threw his footwear at the U.S. president, local media said on Wednesday. 
- 20:23 24/12/2008
- 19:49 24/12/2008
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday Ukraine must pay its natural gas debt to Russia in full or otherwise Kiev could face disruptions in supplies.
- 19:27 24/12/2008
Gazprom is interested in developing Iran's oil and gas deposits, the Russian energy giant said on Wednesday.
- 19:22 24/12/2008
Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz are unlikely to agree a new gas contract before January 1, but Russian gas supplies to Europe will be unaffected, a spokesman for the Russian gas giant said Wednesday.
- 19:12 24/12/2008
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev is disappointed by the slow pace in decision-making by his Western colleagues amid the global financial crisis, the president said in an interview with leading Russian TV stations.
- 18:33 24/12/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko plans to declare a state of emergency in the country and cancel all elections, the country's prime minister said on Wednesday.
- 18:03 24/12/2008
Russia and Serbia signed on Wednesday an oil and gas agreement during an official visit by Serbian President Boris Tadic to Moscow.
- 17:51 24/12/2008
Ukraine's prime minister and the leader of the opposition pro-Russian Party of Regions have an equal chance of winning next years' presidential elections, according to a poll published on Wednesday.
- 16:59 24/12/2008
The press office at the U.S. embassy in Russia dismissed Russian claims on Wednesday that American mercenaries fought alongside Georgian troops in August during the military conflict in South Ossetia.
- 16:27 24/12/2008
Russia's Air Force has completed the deployment of personnel and hardware of a Russian helicopter group to Chad, an Air Force spokesman said Wednesday.
- 16:17 24/12/2008
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- 15:21 24/12/2008
The next summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) postponed in December amid national anti-government protests in Thailand will be held on February 13-15, a deputy interior minister said.
- 15:13 24/12/2008
- 15:00 24/12/2008
Former U.S. world champion Evander Holyfield filed an appeal on Wednesday with the World Boxing Association protesting his points defeat to Russia's WBA Heavyweight World Champion Nikolai Valuev.
- 13:57 24/12/2008
- 13:34 24/12/2008
Russia is facing its first budget deficit for a decade in 2009, but will make up the shortfall with money from the Reserve Fund, a Kremlin aide announced on Wednesday.
- 13:19 24/12/2008
