- 22:00 02/06/2009
Russian diplomats were finally given access to Russian students, who have been held in custody in Egypt for almost a week, as Cairo authorities released 10 others on Tuesday, a Russian embassy official said.
- 20:48 02/06/2009
A UN investigative team began work in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to examine claims of human rights violations that are alleged to have occurred during a three-week military offensive by Israeli troops on Gaza in January.
- 20:12 02/06/2009
There is no possibility of cutoffs of natural gas supplies to Ukraine now that a 10-year supply contract has been signed, Gazprom's chief executive said on Tuesday.
- 19:33 02/06/2009
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday that he would attend a Moscow Middle East peace conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
- 19:30 02/06/2009
Brazil's Air Force said on Tuesday that it had found wreckage in the area that a missing Air France passenger plane last made contact.
- 18:29 02/06/2009
Belarus has asked Russia for a $9 billion loan for the construction of the ex-Soviet republic's first nuclear power plant, a Belarusian government official said on Tuesday.
- 18:02 02/06/2009
Brazil's Air Force said on Tuesday that it had found wreckage in the area that a missing Air France passenger plane last made contact.
- 17:08 02/06/2009
PGNiG has signed a contract to buy an extra $300 million of natural gas from an export arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, a spokeswoman for Poland's gas monopoly said on Tuesday.
- 16:57 02/06/2009
A meeting of foreign ministers from the Middle East Quartet could be held in June, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 16:43 02/06/2009
Novolipetsk Steel, one of Russia's largest steel companies, announced on Tuesday a US GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2009 of $193.8 million compared with a $617.7 million net profit a year earlier.
- 16:22 02/06/2009
- 16:06 02/06/2009
A new draft strategic arms reduction deal to replace the START 1 treaty may be ready before U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow on July 6-8, a Russian presidential spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
- 15:28 02/06/2009
A series of bomb explosions that ripped through a bank in the town of Melitopol in southeast Ukraine have left 25 people injured, the country's interior ministry said on Tuesday.
- 15:02 02/06/2009
Japan's Nissan Motor Company opened on Tuesday a car plant in St. Petersburg at a ceremony attended by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
- 14:52 02/06/2009
More than 700 people living in villages near an active volcano in eastern Indonesia are leaving their homes after warnings of a possible eruption, local media said on Tuesday.
- 14:32 02/06/2009
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, urged Iran on Tuesday to demonstrate to the international community that its nuclear program was peaceful.
- 14:29 02/06/2009
A family of six died, when a suspected roadside bomb exploded on Tuesday near the Bagram U.S. airbase, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Kabul, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said.
- 14:00 02/06/2009
A Brazilian man said his expired passport saved his life and the life of his friend as he was not allowed to board the missing Air France plane, Brazilian media reported on Tuesday.
- 12:46 02/06/2009
It used to be said that what was good for GM was good for the country, with the US now the majority shareholder, the tables have been turned.
