- 23:14 19/10/2009
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said that Monday's talks between Iran and world powers on a new uranium enrichment deal have started positively.
- 21:39 19/10/2009
Three Russian oil companies signed an agreement on Monday with Turkey's Calik Enerji and Italy's Eni on a pipeline project to pump Caspian oil to the Mediterranean via Turkey.
- 21:11 19/10/2009
Serbia is close to signing a deal for a $1.5-billion Russian loan, the Balkan country's first deputy prime minister Bozidar Djelic said on Monday.
- 20:08 19/10/2009
- 19:23 19/10/2009
The oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom has obtained a medium-term unsecured $500 million loan from a syndicate of banks, Gazprom Neft said in a statement on Monday.
- 19:01 19/10/2009
Russia's largest car producer, AvtoVAZ, said on Monday it may have to file for bankruptcy due to losses and spiraling debts, but that production will not be halted.
- 18:58 19/10/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that a Japanese minister's recent statement on the territorial dispute over the Kuril islands was out of line with the Japanese leadership's aim of improving dialogue.
- 18:11 19/10/2009
Russia and the EU have started negotiations on the wording of a new partnership and cooperation agreement, the Russian foreign minister said on Monday.
- 18:05 19/10/2009
The Russian branches of seven multinational food and soft drink companies signed a deal on Monday to restrict advertising aimed at children under 12 from 2010.
- 17:42 19/10/2009
Russia guarantees uninterrupted natural gas supplies to Europe, and will solve gas transit problems taking into account the interests of all parties, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 16:05 19/10/2009
Russia's agricultural watchdog said on Monday it was putting temporary limitations on the import of German and Dutch poultry and Moldovan dry milk containing prohibited and harmful substances.
- 15:41 19/10/2009
A 36-hour strike by French railway workers beginning on Monday is expected to cause chaos on French railways, the country's media has reported.
- 15:40 19/10/2009
The United States, Russia and France will try during talks on Monday to persuade Iran to send its uranium abroad for enrichment.
- 15:31 19/10/2009
Azerbaijan's trade with Russia in the first nine months of the current year rose 28.5% year-on-year to $1.345 billion, Azerbaijan's State Customs Committee said on Monday.
- 15:30 19/10/2009
French retailer Carrefour, which announced plans last week to pull out of the Russian market, said on Monday it would still keep its hypermarket chain in Russia.
- 15:23 19/10/2009
Russia's gross domestic product resumed month-on-month growth in September after a stutter in August, a deputy economics minister said on Monday.
- 14:20 19/10/2009
A Russian analyst said on Monday further suicide bomb attacks could not be ruled out in Iran as radical groups intensify their activities.
- 13:53 19/10/2009
Ukraine officially launched on Monday a presidential election campaign, the first since the 2004 "orange revolution" that swept Viktor Yushchenko to power.
- 12:46 19/10/2009
The arrest of the top law-enforcement official in an east Siberian region could be linked to a smuggling investigation against a Russian jewelry firm, a business paper reported on Monday.
