- 21:11 05/01/2009
The Harju district court in Estonia acquitted on Monday activists charged with organizing mass riots during the dismantling of a Soviet-era statue in the capital Tallinn in April 2007. 
- 21:10 05/01/2009
Gazprom will reduce its delivery of gas to Ukraine by 65.3 million cubic meters - the volume that has been stolen, the Russian energy giant's CEO said on Monday.
- 20:15 05/01/2009
- 19:53 05/01/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, with both leaders stressing the need for an immediate ceasefire, the Kremlin said.
- 18:30 05/01/2009
A transport plane working with an international expedition has crashed in the Antarctic, although all four people on board survived, a Russian polar explorer said on Monday.
- 17:38 05/01/2009
Russian gas supplies to the Czech Republic, earlier affected by the Russian-Ukraine gas dispute, are back to normal, Martin Chalupsky, RWE Transgas spokesman, said on Monday.
- 16:46 05/01/2009
Stores in Belarus have been hit by crowds of shoppers buying up foreign goods leaving shelves empty after the country devalued its currency by 20% against the U.S. dollar on January 2.
- 15:40 05/01/2009
Ukraine's Naftogaz refused a request by Gazprom to pump an additional 15 million cubic meters of Russian gas to European consumers, the Russian energy giant's press service said on Monday.
- 14:53 05/01/2009
A naval task force from Russia's Northern Fleet began on Monday an informal visit to Turkey, a Navy spokesman said.
- 13:52 05/01/2009
Georgia will sign a strategic partnership treaty with the United States on January 9, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 13:27 05/01/2009
The EU urged both Moscow and Kiev to fulfill their commitments on gas supplies and transit to Europe ahead of an extraordinary meeting of EU envoys on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine gas dispute in Brussels on Monday.
- 11:58 05/01/2009
Russia's special envoy to the Middle East met with the Israeli foreign minister in Jerusalem to urge an end to the violence in the Gaza Strip, where the death toll has increased to over 500, the foreign ministry said.
