- 21:56 27/07/2009
Russia is concerned about tensions rising in southern Lebanon, Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said on Monday during a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East.
- 21:25 27/07/2009
Arab countries see no reason to start normalizing relations with Israel while it continues to build illegal settlements on occupied land, Arab League head Amr Moussa said on Monday.
- 20:11 27/07/2009
Fans of the late pop star Michael Jackson have launched an internet campaign to have their idol nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 20:01 27/07/2009
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin arrived in Venezuela's capital on Monday to discuss plans for a high-level bilateral commission and President Hugo Chavez's visit to Russia.
- 18:37 27/07/2009
Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been awarded the Ambassador of Conscience Award, Amnesty International's highest award, the human rights watchdog announced on its website.
- 18:11 27/07/2009
Russia's largest privately owned oil producer LUKoil said on Monday its net profit calculated under Russian Accounting Standards had declined 27%, year-on-year, in January-June to 37.5 billion rubles ($1.2 billion).
- 17:25 27/07/2009
Gazprom Neft, the oil producing arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, said on Monday its net profit calculated under Russian Accounting Standards decreased 56.5% year-on-year in January-June 2009 to 26.359 billion rubles ($850 million).
- 16:31 27/07/2009
The first batch of vaccine against the A/H1N1 swine flu will be ready by October 1, a prominent Russian researcher said on Monday.
- 16:30 27/07/2009
The fatal crash of an Il-62 airliner in Iran last week occurred because the plane was traveling too fast when it touched down, Kazakhstan's Transportation Ministry said on Monday.
- 16:20 27/07/2009
Russia will be forced to look for new markets for its grain this year amid declining demand in countries that are traditional buyers, the president of Russia's Grain Union said on Monday.
- 16:01 27/07/2009
Vladimir Nabokov's final unfinished novel will be published in Russia after it hits the shelves in the United States and Britain in November, a Russian publisher said on Monday.
- 15:39 27/07/2009
The U.S. administration hopes Iran will respond by fall to offers for diplomacy to solve the dispute surrounding its nuclear program, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday.
- 15:30 27/07/2009
North Korea on Monday said it was ready for bilateral talks with the U.S. but repeated it would not rejoin the six-party talks over its nuclear program, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
- 15:10 27/07/2009
Georgia's Foreign Ministry has expressed the hope that the European Union will extend the mandate of its monitoring mission in the country during Monday's Council of Ministers's meeting in Brussels.
- 14:24 27/07/2009
Russia may provide a $150 million loan to Cuba to finance deliveries of Russian construction and agricultural machinery, following a resolution signed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday.
- 14:22 27/07/2009
Russia will demand that Japanese authorities tighten security around Russian diplomatic facilities following an attempt to break down the embassy gates in Tokyo, a diplomat said on Monday.
- 14:03 27/07/2009
The number of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank has risen 2.3% since the start of the year to 304,569, Israel's Haaretz daily said on Monday, citing a military report.
- 13:25 27/07/2009
The new president of Russia's largest diamond producer, Alrosa, confirmed on Monday the company plans to sell diamonds worth a total of $2 billion in 2009.
- 11:58 27/07/2009
Gold output in Russia grew 24.6%, year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to 77.3 metric tons (2.5 million troy ounces), the Union of Russian Gold Miners said on Monday.
