- 21:08 20/02/2009
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer reiterated on Friday that the alliance would keep its doors open to Georgia and Ukraine, but both countries still had much work ahead of them. 
- 19:09 20/02/2009
- 19:01 20/02/2009
The debris from a recent collision involving two communications satellites could pose a serious threat for future launches of spacecraft into a geostationary orbit, a Russian scientist said on Friday.
- 18:17 20/02/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will make a state visit to Spain on March 1-3 at the invitation of King Juan Carlos I, the Kremlin said Friday.
- 18:14 20/02/2009
Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Salah will make an official visit to Russia on February 24-26, the Kremlin announced on Friday.
- 18:03 20/02/2009
Latvian President Valdis Zatlers said on Friday he had accepted the resignation of the country's prime minister, Ivars Godmanis, amid the ongoing economic crisis in the Baltic state.
- 17:30 20/02/2009
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized the initiatives of Russia's pro-Kremlin United Russia party during a meeting with students at a Moscow university on Friday.
- 16:41 20/02/2009
Italy could temporarily increase its military contingent in Afghanistan during August presidential elections in the war-torn Central Asian country, the Italian defense minister said on Friday.
- 16:14 20/02/2009
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed on Friday a decree to close a U.S. airbase used since 2001 to support NATO operations in nearby Afghanistan, his press service said.
- 15:36 20/02/2009
A Ukrainian An-12 cargo plane burst into flames on Friday as it tried to take off in south Egypt killing five crew members, the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority head was quoted as saying by the MENA news agency.
- 15:23 20/02/2009
The Moscow Military District Court acquitted on Friday three men of involvement in the 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
- 14:37 20/02/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed on Friday a claim by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci that Moscow was getting ready to recognize the province as an independent state.
- 14:06 20/02/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic signed in Moscow on Friday a deal on mutual visa-free travel for citizens of the two countries.
- 13:44 20/02/2009
Washington may look at setting up a military base in the Black Sea city of Trabzon in Turkey as an alternative to the Kyrgyz base which is due to close later this year, a Turkish newspaper said on Friday.
- 13:12 20/02/2009
Russian rescuers have called a halt to the search for eight crewmembers from a Chinese cargo ship which sank off Russia's Pacific Coast, a spokesman for the Vladivostok rescue center said on Friday.
- 12:59 20/02/2009
TEHRAN, February 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian-Iranian trade turnover rose to $3.7 billion last year, Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Friday.
- 11:53 20/02/2009
Russia's consul in North Korea has been denied permission to board a Russian vessel earlier seized by border guards off the coast of the secretive communist state, the ship's owner said on Friday.
- 11:44 20/02/2009
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed on Friday a decree to close a U.S. airbase used since 2001 to support NATO operations in nearby Afghanistan, his press service said.
- 11:40 20/02/2009
A Ukrainian An-12 cargo plane burst into flames on Friday as it tried to take off in south Egypt killing five crew members, the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority head was quoted as saying by the MENA news agency.
