- 22:04 23/01/2009
Cuban leader Raul Castro will visit Moscow later this month, with the official part of his visit scheduled for January 30, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin announced on Friday. 
- 21:36 23/01/2009
Russia plans to increase its participation in UN-led peacekeeping operations, Russia's envoy to the UN said on Friday.
- 20:35 23/01/2009
A Russian national oil consortium created to run oil projects in Venezuela will also cooperate with Cuba's state-run oil company Cubapetroleo, a memorandum signed between the two companies stated on Friday.
- 20:34 23/01/2009
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Friday he did not consider the Russian people enemies of Georgia.
- 20:03 23/01/2009
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will convene an international conference on Afghanistan in late March, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 19:24 23/01/2009
Bulgaria estimates its losses from recent cuts in Russian gas supplies at about $320 million and is demanding compensation from Russia's Gazprom, the country's economy and energy ministry said on Friday.
- 19:06 23/01/2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday Georgia's expanding military presence on the borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia continued to be a matter for grave concern.
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Gazprom plans to sell $9.5 billion worth of gas to Ukraine in 2009, a senior official at the Russian gas monopoly said on Friday.
- 16:54 23/01/2009
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Moscow was ready to cooperate with NATO over Afghanistan.
- 16:16 23/01/2009
Ukraine and Russia will hold a further round of talks on demarcating maritime boundaries between the two countries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in Moscow in June, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 16:02 23/01/2009
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The Russian Navy has rejected media reports that the Baltic Fleet's Neustrashimy missile frigate is in an unsatisfactory technical condition, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.
- 15:04 23/01/2009
- 14:39 23/01/2009
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met with Chinese communist party official Wang Jiarui in the capital Pyongyang, China's Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
- 14:35 23/01/2009
Uzbekistan is ready to sell Russia up to 31 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year, the country's president said on Friday.
