- 19:21 04/06/2009
Russia is counting on effective cooperation with the new U.S. administration in WTO accession talks, a first deputy prime minister said on Thursday.
- 18:31 04/06/2009
Russia's largest bank Sberbank will contribute 35% to the 500 million euro ($705 million) deal to purchase struggling German automaker Opel, Sberbank CEO German Gref said on Thursday.
- 17:25 04/06/2009
Moscow and the EU could complete WTO accession talks before the end of the year, the economic development minister said on Thursday.
- 17:16 04/06/2009
A mammoth skeleton, believed to be as much as a million years old, has been discovered near the eastern Serbian city of Kostolac, the B92 TV channel said on its website on Thursday.
- 16:47 04/06/2009
One Palestinian police officer and three Hamas militants were killed during a shootout in the West Bank, Fatah's news website reported on Thursday.
- 16:29 04/06/2009
A Russian deputy foreign minister called Thursday on Georgia's political elite to "moderate their geopolitical ambitions and start gradually normalizing relations with neighbors."
- 16:05 04/06/2009
The European Union has decided to send fact-finding missions to Moscow and Kiev to clear up the situation with natural gas supplies, a European Commission spokesman said on Thursday.
- 15:59 04/06/2009
Russia hopes military contacts with NATO will be restored after a Russia-NATO Council meeting later this month, Moscow's ambassador to the alliance said on Thursday.
- 15:28 04/06/2009
Five people have been killed in a helicopter crash in Venezuela, local media reported on Thursday.
- 15:15 04/06/2009
President Barack Obama called for a new beginning in relations between the United States and the Muslim world at a long-awaited speech in Egypt on Thursday.
- 14:56 04/06/2009
Russia and China have agreed to start preparations to create a cross-border nature reserve to protect endangered Siberian tigers and Far East leopards.
- 14:40 04/06/2009
The third round of comprehensive Russia-U.S. talks on a new strategic arms reduction pact will take place in late June in Geneva, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 14:16 04/06/2009
China issued an angry response on Thursday to U.S. comments on the 20th anniversary of the violent crackdown on Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests.
- 13:34 04/06/2009
The economic forum opening in St. Petersburg on Thursday is a good opportunity to discuss the global economic crisis, including its impact on former Soviet republics, a Kazakh analyst said
- 13:21 04/06/2009
Sixteen people died and three others were seriously injured when a bus collided with a truck in north-central Mexico, national media cited officials as saying
- 13:19 04/06/2009
South Korea accused North Korea on Thursday of violating the western sea border between the countries, Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported.
- 13:13 04/06/2009
The Russian president expects participants in the three-day International Economic Forum starting on Thursday in St. Petersburg to offer solutions for overcoming the economic crisis.
- 13:12 04/06/2009
Brazilian and French ships rush to pull out Air France plane wreckage as authoritites and families seek answers for the crash that took 228 lives.
- 13:12 04/06/2009
Interpol has issued warrants for the arrests of seven people in connection with the murder of Sulim Yamadayev, a Russian Interior Ministry spokesman said on
