- 22:14 29/09/2009
Ukraine's gas monopoly Naftogaz could receive a 350-400 million euro ($450-500 mln) loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the acting finance minister said on Tuesday.
- 21:23 29/09/2009
A Ukrainian company that won a tender for the Odessa chemical plant but whose bid was then invalidated is determined to go to court, a company spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 21:13 29/09/2009
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana criticized on Tuesday a violent crackdown on protests by authorities in Guinea that left 157 people dead.
- 20:55 29/09/2009
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected former Norwegian premier Thorbjorn Jagland new general secretary of the Council of Europe on Tuesday.
- 19:51 29/09/2009
Tehran will pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if talks with the "Iran Six" on its nuclear program are fruitless, a senior Iranian MP said on Tuesday.
- 19:50 29/09/2009
A PACE commission decided on Tuesday not to adopt a Georgian motion to strip Russia of its voting rights in the organization, the Russian delegation head said.
- 19:07 29/09/2009
A project to pump Russian gas to South Korea through a North Korean pipeline has been suspended due to the deterioration in inter-Korean relations, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.
- 18:28 29/09/2009
The Ukrainian government auctioned off a strategic Black Sea chemical plant on Tuesday, but invalidated the $634 mln offer just minutes later, claiming a bidders' plot to bring prices down.
- 18:28 29/09/2009
The Ukrainian government auctioned off a strategic Black Sea chemical plant on Tuesday
- 17:36 29/09/2009
The Russian government could sell its stakes in some companies next year to replenish the budget and will offer large share packages of state corporations in the long term, the finance minister said Tuesday.
- 17:35 29/09/2009
The Soyuz rocket due to take Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte to the International Space Station has been brought to the launch pad at Russia's Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
- 17:23 29/09/2009
The death toll from Tuesday's roadside blast in the southern Afghan Kandahar province has risen to 30, with 39 people injured, local police said in a statement.
- 17:11 29/09/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to pay a working visit to China on October 12-14, in response to an invitation from the Chinese president, the government press service reported on Tuesday.
- 16:55 29/09/2009
Russia's state-run civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom will by late 2010 dismantle 191 out of 198 nuclear submarines decommissioned from the Russian Navy, a company executive said on Tuesday.
- 16:25 29/09/2009
New NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will visit Moscow in December, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
- 16:20 29/09/2009
European security, Russia-EU relations, Iran's nuclear program and the Middle East will be discussed, when the foreign and defense ministers from France and Russia meet in Moscow on October 1, Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 16:19 29/09/2009
Iran's missile program cannot but cause Russia to be concerned against the backdrop of the Islamic Republic's unresolved nuclear issues, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
- 16:01 29/09/2009
Moscow believes it would be possible to establish a missile-defense system jointly with NATO, Russia's envoy to the military alliance said on Tuesday.
- 14:52 29/09/2009
Twelve people died and 15 were wounded when a bus hit a roadside device in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the Kandahar provincial council said in a statement.
