- 23:19 23/11/2009
President Dmitry Medvedev has said Moscow wants to build a closer union with Belarus, but has not invited the country to become part of Russia.
- 21:30 23/11/2009
Russia does not regard the EU's Eastern Partnership program for closer ties with ex-Soviet states as useful, but will not seek to impede it, the Russian president said on Monday.
- 21:22 23/11/2009
President Dmitry Medvedev has denied widespread reports that Russia has tried to persuade Belarus to recognize the pro-Russian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.
- 21:16 23/11/2009
China will send two giant pandas to Australia for 10 years as part of a joint research program, the Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
- 20:26 23/11/2009
TV talent show sensation Susan Boyle's debut album has broken internet sales records in several countries, but her appeal has yet to reach the Russian capital, local retailers said.
- 20:13 23/11/2009
Beams of protons have started circulating in both directions around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a scientist participating in the experiment said on Monday.
- 19:50 23/11/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was the first to drive a sports car over a new bridge in Georgia's Gori district on Monday, inaugurating a "road to Abkhazia."
- 19:44 23/11/2009
The Latvian foreign minister said on Monday that the country's military drills with NATO scheduled for next summer are not a response to Russia-Belarus exercises held in September this year.
- 17:51 23/11/2009
At least 29 civilians were massacred in a struggle between political clans in the Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines on Monday, the national news agency PNA reported.
- 17:20 23/11/2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proposed launching a debate with U.S. leader Barack Obama on global issues, but does not seek direct negotiations with Washington, an Iranian official said on Monday.
- 15:13 23/11/2009
France's Mistral helicopter carrier on Monday made a port call in St. Petersburg, a Russian Navy spokesman said.
- 15:02 23/11/2009
Russia's Permanent Delegate to UNESCO Eleonora Mitrofanova was chosen on Monday to head the organization's Executive Board.
- 15:01 23/11/2009
The Russian government expects to receive about 77 billion rubles ($2.7 billion) from the privatization of state enterprises in 2010, a government source said on Monday.
- 14:39 23/11/2009
A 22-year-old Russian who badly injured an elderly man and wrecked his Lamborghini in a crash in Switzerland last week was driving under the influence of alcohol, local media reported on Monday.
- 14:07 23/11/2009
Five police officers died on Monday when a bomb went off in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the Interior Ministry said.
- 13:31 23/11/2009
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko pledged on Monday in an election campaign statement to force Russia's Black Sea Fleet to leave Ukraine's Crimea by 2017.
- 13:19 23/11/2009
Hamas delegates headed to Cairo on Monday for talks on a deal that would free an Israeli soldier who has be held captive for more than three years, regional media said.
- 13:10 23/11/2009
Thai media have said that two men died from the cold as temperatures dropped from 27 to 15 degrees Celsius
- 11:40 23/11/2009
The launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket bearing the European Eutelsat W7 satellite has been delayed, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday.
