- 12:47 25/02/2009
Russia has completed the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr and is launching start-up operations, the head of Russia's nuclear power corporation said on Wednesday. 
- 12:36 25/02/2009
- 12:19 25/02/2009
Ukraine's first president Leonid Kravchuk has urged the current president, Viktor Yushchenko, to step down as head of the country on Ukrainian television.
- 11:59 25/02/2009
Kazakhstan has launched its second nationwide population census since the Central Asian country gained independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
- 11:01 25/02/2009
Russia's state-controlled retail savings bank Sberbank will sponsor the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, a business paper reported on Wednesday.
- 10:50 25/02/2009
Russia's two main stock exchanges, MICEX and the RTS, opened on Wednesday with their key indexes going up after comments by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
- 10:33 25/02/2009
- 10:29 25/02/2009
Poland is sticking to its commitments on the deployment of U.S. missile shield elements on its territory, but the U.S. administration has to decide on the timeframe, a senior Polish military official said on Wednesday.
- 10:18 25/02/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Yemeni counterpart Ali Abdallah Salah will discuss military and trade cooperation, as well as tackling piracy and terrorism at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday.
- 10:00 25/02/2009
A bus carrying dozens of passengers plunged into a river in India's state of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday morning killing at least 33 people, a local police chief said.
- 09:12 25/02/2009
The head of Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom is due to discuss the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran on Wednesday.
