- 22:07 13/01/2009
- 21:53 13/01/2009
The president of the European Parliament urged on Tuesday Moscow and Kiev to uphold an agreement on international monitoring of gas transit from Russia to Europe via Ukraine, signed on Monday.
- 21:11 13/01/2009
Russian gas has been stolen after being pumped into Ukraine's gas transportation system, an official spokesman for Russian energy giant Gazprom said.
- 20:54 13/01/2009
Russia will prioritize gas supplies to countries that have been the worst affected by the ongoing dispute with Ukraine, the Russian prime minister said on Tuesday.
- 20:44 13/01/2009
A planned Moscow conference on the Middle East could be held after February 10, the Palestinian ambassador to Russia said Tuesday.
- 19:57 13/01/2009
- 19:11 13/01/2009
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) resumed talks on its observer missions in Georgia and the breakaway republic of South Ossetia on Tuesday, Russia's OSCE envoy said.
- 18:00 13/01/2009
The Ukrainian president denied on Tuesday that Kiev was blocking Russian gas transit to Europe or stealing gas, following a failure by Russia to make a test delivery through Ukraine.
- 17:57 13/01/2009
Hamas is holding civilians hostage and using them as human shields during Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip, Israel's ambassador to Russia said on Tuesday.
- 17:08 13/01/2009
A member of Georgia's opposition Labor Party on Tuesday accused the family of President Mikheil Saakashvili of embezzling some $90 million from the state budget.
- 16:49 13/01/2009
Russia has received export orders for the delivery of Ka-52 Hokum-B combat helicopters from three countries, the manufacturer said on Tuesday.
- 16:45 13/01/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin informed European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso on Tuesday that Ukraine was blocking the transit of Russian natural gas to Europe.
- 16:44 13/01/2009
The UN has given shelter to tens of thousands of Palestinians in its schools in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 16:13 13/01/2009
Uzbekistan's export operator the Navoiisky mining and smelting plant (NGMK) plans to put into operation seven new uranium deposits, the NGMK general director said Tuesday.
- 15:43 13/01/2009
North Korea in an official statement pledged on Tuesday to discontinue its nuclear ambitions only if the United States stopped its threatening and "unfriendly" policies towards the communist nation.
- 15:38 13/01/2009
- 15:06 13/01/2009
- 14:23 13/01/2009
Ukraine's biggest opposition faction started on Tuesday procedures to impeach President Viktor Yushchenko, and also called for the dismissal of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's government.
- 14:21 13/01/2009
The first leg of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline will come on stream on December 25, 2009, the head of the Transneft pipeline operator announced on Tuesday.
