- 19:54 16/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday described as a mistake the attempts to detect "foul play" in Russia's proposals for a new European security treaty.
- 19:47 16/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed as "primitive" a theory implicating Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in the murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova.
- 18:59 16/07/2009
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Russia to pay 50,000 euros ($70,200) in compensation to the relatives of a Chechen who was abducted in 2003.
- 18:36 16/07/2009
The Chisinau Chamber of Appeals on Thursday cleared a former Moldovan defense minister, Valery Pasat, of the unlawful sales of Russian-made warplanes and rocket launchers, his lawyer said.
- 18:26 16/07/2009
Russia is not jealous of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project, President Dmitry Medvedev said at a joint news conference after talks with the German leader on Thursday.
- 17:56 16/07/2009
Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Gholam Reza Aghazadeh has resigned, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported on Thursday.
- 17:52 16/07/2009
Iran has the capacity to build a nuclear bomb and conduct a nuclear test similar to North Korea's by the end of this year, a popular German magazine has said.
- 17:05 16/07/2009
Azerbaijan has conducted a planned rotation of its peacekeeping contingent in Afghanistan, replacing 43 peacekeepers, the country's Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
- 16:53 16/07/2009
Pakistan promised India on Thursday to take all necessary measures to bring those behind last November's attack on the Indian city of Mumbai to justice.
- 15:59 16/07/2009
Relief workers at the crash site of an airliner in Iran said on Thursday the force of the impact and subsequent fire meant there was no way to identify the victims, the Fars news agency reported.
- 15:55 16/07/2009
Egyptian border guards have blown up several tunnels under the border with Gaza, destroying several houses in the process, eyewitnesses told RIA Novosti.
- 15:41 16/07/2009
The Volga-Dnepr Group, Russia's largest heavy air freight carrier, is planning to take part in the transit of U.S. military supplies to Afghanistan, the company said on Thursday.
- 14:44 16/07/2009
India's first domestically built nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine will be launched on July 26, India Today reported on Thursday.
- 14:01 16/07/2009
North Korea is currently filming the first biopic about leader Kim Jong Il, amid South Korean reports that his health is failing, the country's state media reported on Thursday.
- 12:53 16/07/2009
A humanitarian aid convoy led by British MP George Galloway has arrived in the Gaza Strip, regional media said on Thursday.
- 12:49 16/07/2009
The danger of the Taliban seizing control of Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal has been overstated in the West, a leading South Asia analyst has told RIA Novosti.
- 12:39 16/07/2009
troytransgaz, a major Russian engineering company, is holding talks with Rosneft on selling its 50% stake in a joint venture developing oil and gas fields in Algeria, a business paper reported on Thursday.
- 12:10 16/07/2009
Russian Far East border guards have detained two Cambodian-registered vessels with Russian crews illegally carrying several tons of crab and fish, the local border guard service said on Thursday.
- 11:48 16/07/2009
Russia and Germany will sign a credit agreement worth 500 million euros ($706 mln) to finance joint projects after talks between the countries' leaders on Thursday, a Kremlin aide said.
