- 21:53 03/06/2009
A Moscow court rejected on Wednesday an appeal from Norway's Telenor to suspend an order to pay $1.728 billion to Russia's second largest mobile phone operator VimpelCom, in which it holds 29.9%.
- 21:43 03/06/2009
Participants in the project to lay the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea are ready to alter the route in line with Finland's environmental concerns, the Russian prime minister said on Wednesday.
- 21:33 03/06/2009
A 30-year-old unemployed mortgage advisor from Maidstone in the U.K. has auctioned himself on eBay in an attempt to find a new job, local media said on Wednesday.
- 21:24 03/06/2009
Russia's prime minister warned on Wednesday that natural gas pumped via Ukraine to Europe could be cut off by early July if Ukraine fails to pay for its gas, and urged the EU to intervene.
- 20:12 03/06/2009
The first Brazilian Navy vessel has reached the area of the Atlantic where debris has been found from an Air France plane that went missing earlier this week, a Navy spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 19:33 03/06/2009
A final decision on conflicting territorial claims on the Arctic seabed must be made by the United Nations, the Russian foreign minister said on Wednesday.
- 19:30 03/06/2009
A new UN Security Council resolution on North Korea will include additional sanctions against the communist regime but will not introduce an economic embargo, Russia's UN envoy said on Wednesday.
- 19:16 03/06/2009
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has accused U.S. President Barack Obama of inflaming hatred towards the U.S. in the Muslim world in a recent video tape aired by the Al Jazeera TV channel on Wednesday.
- 18:59 03/06/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed on Wednesday that a meeting of the Russia-NATO council at the level of foreign ministers will be held on June 27 on the Greek island of Corfu.
- 18:13 03/06/2009
A UN-sponsored conference on the global financial crisis will be held on June 24-26, Russia's envoy to the United Nations said on Wednesday.
- 17:42 03/06/2009
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will conduct joint military exercises in August-September in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, the Belarusian defense minister said on Wednesday.
- 17:19 03/06/2009
Iran has proposed buying all of the natural gas produced at an Azerbaijani gas field in the Caspian Sea, the South Caucasus republic's energy and fuel minister said on Wednesday.
- 17:08 03/06/2009
Russian uranium trader Tekhsnabexport and U.S. firm Exelon have signed a contract to supply enriched uranium covering 2014-2020, a spokesman for Russian nuclear holding Atomenergoprom said on Wednesday.
- 17:07 03/06/2009
A meeting of the Russia-NATO council at the level of foreign ministers could be held on June 27 on the Greek island of Corfu, Russia's envoy to the military alliance said on Wednesday.
- 16:43 03/06/2009
Brazil's president believes it will be technically possible to find the wreckage of the Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic earlier this week, and salvage the black box.
- 15:59 03/06/2009
An Italian member of the European Parliament who was an official observer during South Ossetia's parliamentary elections on May 31 said on Wednesday the vote should serve as an example of democracy.
- 15:17 03/06/2009
Israel has no plans to launch a missile attack on Iran despite the global threat of Tehran's nuclear program, the foreign minister said on Wednesday.
- 15:04 03/06/2009
The U.S. government has admitted to accidentally publishing "highly confidential" information on hundreds of civilian nuclear sites, including detailed maps showing fuel stockpiles, on the internet.
- 14:43 03/06/2009
A Manchurian tiger, kept in the world's largest tiger breeding center in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang, has given birth to six cubs, Xinhua said
