- 22:51 24/11/2009
Russia's Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz agreed on Tuesday to reduce Russian national gas deliveries by 35% in 2010, from the previously contracted 52 billion cubic meters to 33.75 bcm.
- 21:59 24/11/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday has promised to announce his decision next week on increasing troops in Afghanistan and tell the American people his "comprehensive strategy" in the military campaign.
- 21:58 24/11/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry sent on Tuesday a note of protest to Japan over a document describing the Southern Kuril islands as "territory occupied by Russia."
- 20:35 24/11/2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the four men arrested over a drunken high-speed car race in Geneva, which left a Swiss man severely injured, are Russian citizens.
- 20:33 24/11/2009
After a one-day delay, Russia on Tuesday finally launched a Proton-M rocket carrying the European Eutelsat W7 satellite, the Federal Space Agency said.
- 20:30 24/11/2009
Russia's Foreign Ministry has dismissed as groundless a recent claim by a U.S. nonproliferation expert that Moscow is helping Iran build nuclear weapons.
- 19:43 24/11/2009
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered in southern Nepal for a notorious ritual slaughter of animals and birds, Times of India reported on Tuesday.
- 19:13 24/11/2009
Russia is preparing an answer to an interstate claim brought by Georgia to the Strasbourg Court against Russia's actions in South Ossetia last August, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 18:35 24/11/2009
Iran hopes that Russia will fulfill its contract for the supply of S-300 air defense missile systems, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
- 18:33 24/11/2009
Any further sanctions against Iran are unnecessary until Tehran has provided an official reply to the UN nuclear watchdog's fuel processing proposal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 18:22 24/11/2009
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said on Tuesday the transit fee for Russian natural gas must be increased much more than the earlier reached accords.
- 17:42 24/11/2009
The Russian and Azerbaijani presidents met in the Volga city of Ulyanovsk on Tuesday for talks expected to focus on bilateral trade and the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
- 17:22 24/11/2009
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will sign a deal on a Customs Union between the three ex-Soviet republics in Minsk on November 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 17:20 24/11/2009
A state of emergency was declared in parts of the Philippines on Tuesday as 24 bodies were discovered in a shallow grave, bringing the death toll from a politically-motivated massacre on Monday to 46.
- 16:24 24/11/2009
The Japanese government's position on the South Kuril Islands is counterproductive to dialogue on the territorial issue, a senior Russian MP said on Tuesday.
- 16:06 24/11/2009
The launch of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, delayed for technical reasons, will take place by the end of March 2010, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 15:17 24/11/2009
Gazprom's Board of Directors approved on Tuesday the energy giant's investment program for 2010, stipulating 5.4% growth in investment from the current year to 802.4 billion rubles ($27.8 billion).
- 15:03 24/11/2009
A 70-year-old Swiss man severely injured in a car crash with a Russian who was driving at high speed under the influence of alcohol is expected to be questioned by police soon.
- 14:55 24/11/2009
At least two Palestinian militants died and four were wounded when an explosion occurred in a house in Gaza on Tuesday, local media said.
