- 15:04 09/02/2009
The signing of a deal between Belarus and Russia on an integrated regional air defense network is not a response to U.S. plans for a missile shield in Europe, the Belarus foreign minister said on Monday. 
- 14:51 09/02/2009
Measures to adapt the world economy to new challenges amid the global financial crisis could be prepared before the G20 summit in April, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday.
- 14:29 09/02/2009
The Ukrainian cargo ship released by Somali pirates last week will arrive in the Kenyan port of Mombasa on February 11, a Russian maritime news website editor said during a radio interview on Monday.
- 14:17 09/02/2009
The Kyrgyz parliamentary defense and security committee approved on Monday the closure of a U.S. military airbase.
- 13:19 09/02/2009
Russia's Sukhoi aircraft maker opened on Monday a representative office in the capital of India, New Delhi, the company's press service said in a statement.
- 13:11 09/02/2009
The Ukrainian cargo ship released by Somali pirates last week will arrive in the Kenyan port of Mombasa on February 11, a Russian maritime news website editor said during a radio interview on Monday.
- 12:43 09/02/2009
The death toll from unprecedented bushfires that have been raging in southern Australia over the past two weeks has risen to 131 people, the media said on Monday referring to local authorities.
- 12:35 09/02/2009
Russia's leading carmaker AvtoVAZ on Monday restarted its production lines, which were halted on Friday over problems with suppliers, the plant's spokesperson said.
- 12:33 09/02/2009
- 12:09 09/02/2009
Nissan Motor Company, one of the world's leading carmakers, announced on Monday it would slash 20,000 jobs or about 8.5% of its workforce worldwide to weather the global economic crisis.
- 12:07 09/02/2009
Kyrgyz parliament's committees began on Monday debates on the closure of a U.S. military airbase, a deputy head of the parliament's committee on international affairs said.
- 10:30 09/02/2009
Cuban lawmakers are planning to visit Russia in summer to meet with their Russian counterparts, a senior Cuban official told RIA Novosti on Monday.
- 10:24 09/02/2009
The first rail shipment of high-quality Russian flour has arrived in the Afghan city of Hairaton, an economic and trade advisor to the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan said on Monday.
- 09:26 09/02/2009
Japanese police arrested on Monday a Pakistani man in connection with the killing of a Russian woman on Japan's largest island of Honshu, local media said.
- 09:22 09/02/2009
A foreign vessel flying a Cambodian flag has been detained on suspicion of poaching of crab in the Pacific Ocean, near Russia's largest island of Sakhalin, a regional coast guard spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
