- 21:52 15/10/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation on Thursday providing Pakistan with $7.5 billion in aid over the next five years, the White House said.
- 21:29 15/10/2009
The Iranian Embassy in Belarus denied on Thursday claims that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei had died.
- 21:19 15/10/2009
Finnish police have launched new criminal proceedings against a Russian woman convicted of kidnapping her own son, the woman's spokesman said on Thursday.
- 20:57 15/10/2009
Lithuania will not accept prisoners from Guantanamo Bay until allegations that it was involved in hosting secret CIA jails are disproven, the Baltic state's president said on Thursday.
- 19:47 15/10/2009
Russia is concerned by U.S. missile defense talks with countries outside NATO, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.
- 18:48 15/10/2009
Ukraine's policy should be more global, and not focus solely on the West, former president Leonid Kuchma said on Thursday.
- 18:18 15/10/2009
The speaker of Ukraine's parliament urged the ex-Soviet state on Thursday to resume talks with its neighbors on the establishment of a single economic space within the CIS.
- 18:09 15/10/2009
Russia's state-owned oil producer Rosneft plans to bid for 30 Arctic offshore oil deposits, Rosneft CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov said on Thursday.
- 17:20 15/10/2009
The possibility of a Ukrainian radar facility being used as part of a U.S. missile defense system is being considered, Ukraine's ambassador to the United States said on Thursday.
- 16:55 15/10/2009
The Nobel Committee deserve a special prize for surprising the world with their decision to award the Nobel Peace prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Thursday.
- 16:50 15/10/2009
The French oil company Total has received approval from a Russian regulator to purchase a 49% stake in the operator of a gas condensate field in northwest Russia, Total E&P Russia CEO Pierre Nerguararian said on Thursday.
- 16:16 15/10/2009
Russia is set to resume talks on a $150 million loan with Moldova's new government, the president's press secretary said on Thursday.
- 16:01 15/10/2009
Relations between Russia and NATO will be one of the main issues to be discussed at a security conference in the Slovakian capital Bratislava on October 21-22, a NATO spokesman told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 15:46 15/10/2009
Russia's natural gas production declined 18.6%, year-on-year, in January-September to 403 billion cubic meters, the country's top statistics body Rosstat said on Thursday.
- 15:00 15/10/2009
Russia will continue to support Armenia and Turkey's efforts to normalize their relations, Russia's envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Thursday.
- 14:53 15/10/2009
A man who threatened to set off a grenade in Moldova's capital a day after a blast at a concert injured dozens of people has surrendered to police, officials said.
- 14:37 15/10/2009
Russia's GDP may grow 3.1% year-on-year in 2010 as the economy picks up after the problems of 2009, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in an updated forecast on Thursday.
- 14:37 15/10/2009
Russia's president met on Thursday with the sultan of Brunei in Moscow for talks focusing on boosting bilateral trade.
- 14:04 15/10/2009
Russia and India are set to jointly develop helicopters, infantry fighting vehicles and a fifth-generation fighter, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
