- 21:46 21/01/2009
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Wednesday that Russia and Ukraine would not seek compensation from one another for losses caused by the recent gas dispute.
- 20:56 21/01/2009
Latvia was saved from bankruptcy by international financial assistance that started to arrive in December, President Valdis Zatlers said on Wednesday.
- 19:30 21/01/2009
The guided missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, will make an unofficial visit to the port of Messina in Sicily on January 27-30, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 18:44 21/01/2009
Russian missile destroyer Admiral Chabanenko left a naval shipyard in the country's Kaliningrad exclave on an urgent mission after having hurried repair work carried out, a shipyard spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 18:17 21/01/2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is to start his own newspaper column to drum up support for a February 15 referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, Latin American media reported on Wednesday.
- 18:10 21/01/2009
Russia will be able to build a nuclear power plant in Belarus without a tender once the two ex-Soviet republics sign an inter-governmental agreement on civilian nuclear power use, Russia's Rosatom said Wednesday.
- 17:57 21/01/2009
Russian Tu-160 Blackjack and Tu-95MS Bear strategic bombers carried out on Wednesday regular patrols over the Arctic Ocean, a Russian Air Force spokesman said.
- 17:40 21/01/2009
- 17:38 21/01/2009
The Iranian foreign minister on Wednesday accused Israel's leadership of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
- 17:29 21/01/2009
The third round of negotiations on a new Russia-EU cooperation agreement will take place in Brussels on February 13, Russia's EU envoy said on Wednesday.
- 16:41 21/01/2009
Hamas officials in Gaza were ordered to return to work on Wednesday after the end of a three-week Israeli military operation that left almost 1,300 dead in the enclave, a spokesman for the movement said.
- 16:30 21/01/2009
- 16:02 21/01/2009
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has called the creation of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) "completely unacceptable," a Belgrade radio station reported on Wednesday.
- 15:49 21/01/2009
- 15:45 21/01/2009
The International Space Station (ISS) will be off limits to space tourists after 2009 as its crew grows from three to six, the Russian space agency head said on Wednesday.
- 15:41 21/01/2009
Members of Al-Qaeda are active in Russia's North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Daghestan, a deputy interior minister said on Wednesday.
- 15:26 21/01/2009
Russian gas transited via Ukraine continued flowing into Eastern Europe on Wednesday.
- 15:04 21/01/2009
A summit of countries interested in the construction of a gas pipeline from Central Asia to Europe will be held on January 27 in Budapest, a diplomatic source in Brussels said on Wednesday.
- 13:33 21/01/2009
The Turkish government is likely to cancel a tender for the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant by rejecting a bid from a Russian reactor builder, a Turkish paper said on Wednesday.
