- 21:39 11/08/2009
Russia and Germany delivered on Tuesday two medical rescue helicopters to Afghanistan's Interior Ministry for the country's narcotics police.
- 20:28 11/08/2009
Belarus will sign a post-Soviet regional security deal if it believes there is any benefit in signing it, President Lukashenko said on Tuesday.
- 19:45 11/08/2009
- 19:25 11/08/2009
Russia's NATO envoy said on Tuesday the new secretary general of the alliance had reaffirmed his commitment to ending the "dark chapter" in the history of relations with Russia.
- 18:14 11/08/2009
Russia is ready to consider new military cooperation proposals from Venezuela, Prime Minister Putin said on Tuesday.
- 17:57 11/08/2009
Over 400 Russian companies will participate in the MAKS-2009 air show outside Moscow on August 18-23, the Federal Service on Military and Technical Cooperation said on Tuesday.
- 17:41 11/08/2009
A Russian woman upset by her failure to obtain French nationality threw a ceramic mug at the Mona Lisa, but did not damage the world's most famous work of art, a Louvre Museum spokesman said
- 17:25 11/08/2009
A Dutch correspondent has filed a lawsuit against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights over the war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported on Tuesday.
- 16:57 11/08/2009
Russia produced 18,349,000 carats of raw diamonds in January-June 2009 worth a total of $1.2 billion, a rise of 4.6% year-on-year, the Finance Ministry said
- 16:38 11/08/2009
Slovakian authorities announced on Tuesday a day of national mourning for 20 miners killed by a blast in a mine in Handlova, central Slovakia, national media reported.
- 16:18 11/08/2009
At least 87 people were injured when a powerful earthquake, measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, struck the Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, Japanese media reported on Tuesday.
- 15:49 11/08/2009
Russia has been shortlisted for a $700 million contract to deliver two submarines to Indonesia, the Indonesian Navy commander said on Tuesday.
- 14:59 11/08/2009
WHO officially confirmed a total of 1,668 deaths from the A/H1N1 virus worldwide and 208,058 confirmed infections, Russia's consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Tuesday.
- 14:09 11/08/2009
Typhoon Morakot has claimed at least six lives in mainland China, with at least three people still missing, the Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 14:09 11/08/2009
Russia may raise its oil export duty from the current $222 to $237-241 per metric ton from September 1, following trends on global oil markets, a senior Finance Ministry official said on Tuesday.
- 13:46 11/08/2009
A Bangkok court on Tuesday turned down a U.S. request for the extradition of Russian businessman Viktor Bout, wanted by Washington on suspicion of illegal arms trafficking.
- 13:26 11/08/2009
Russia's GDP increased 7.5% quarter-on-quarter in April-June 2009, but contracted 10.9% year-on-year, the country's top statistics body said on Tuesday.
- 12:37 11/08/2009
Russia's NATO envoy will hold his first meeting on Tuesday with the alliance's newly appointed secretary-general to discuss steps to normalize Russia-NATO relations.
- 12:20 11/08/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced on Tuesday he was holding off sending Russia's new ambassador to Ukraine over Kiev's anti-Russian policies.
