- 17:59 14/06/2009
Belarus, which pulled out of Sunday's summit of the post-Soviet CSTO security bloc in Moscow, has said the agreements reached at the meeting are illegitimate.
- 16:51 14/06/2009
Iran's newly re-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dismissed on Sunday allegations of election fraud, and called his victory a blow to the "oppressive system" ruling the world.
- 16:43 14/06/2009
A commission of the customs union being set up between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will negotiate on behalf of the countries in their joint accession to the World Trade Organization, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Sunday.
- 16:17 14/06/2009
A summit of the post-Soviet CSTO security bloc leaders opened in Moscow on Sunday in the absence of the Belarusian president, who pulled out of the meeting in protest against Russia's trade restrictions.
- 15:20 14/06/2009
Belarus, which has pulled out of Sunday's summit of the post-Soviet CSTO security bloc in protest against trade restrictions, has said no summit decisions will be valid without its involvement.
- 14:48 14/06/2009
Russia's president called for stronger trade ties with Kyrgyzstan at a meeting on Sunday with the country's leader, ahead of a summit of the post-Soviet CSTO security bloc.
- 14:44 14/06/2009
An international press center for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), scheduled to be held on June 15-16 in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, started its work on Sunday.
- 14:34 14/06/2009
Three Palestinians have been injured in Israeli air strikes on tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, a Palestinian security source told RIA Novosti on Sunday.
- 14:04 14/06/2009
Two policemen have been killed in a shootout with militants in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, a source in the republic's interior ministry said on Saturday.
- 13:57 14/06/2009
Thousands of demonstrators clashed with police in Iran's capital overnight, amid protests over the incumbent president's landslide election victory.
- 13:52 14/06/2009
A summit of the post-Soviet CSTO security bloc will go ahead in Moscow on Sunday as planned, despite Belarus's withdrawal in protest against Russia's ban on its dairy products, the Kremlin said.
- 13:17 14/06/2009
Foreign ministers from member states of the CSTO, a post-Soviet security bloc, prepared at their meeting on Sunday documents for creating a joint rapid-reaction force.
- 12:06 14/06/2009
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko will not attend a summit of the post-Soviet security bloc in Moscow on Sunday in protest to Russia's ban on Belarusian dairy product imports, Belarus' Foreign Ministry said.
