- 22:47 03/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a decree to establish diplomatic relations with Vatican City, and met with Pope Benedict XVI.
- 22:47 03/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
attends Russian-Italian talks in Rome
- 22:32 03/12/2009
Residents of the central Indian city of Bhopal have marked the 25th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster with public protests, demanding that the culprits be brought to justice.
- 21:33 03/12/2009
Russia's envoy to NATO has said a new resolution to be considered by the Russia-NATO Council on assessing joint threats to the Euro-Atlantic space could prove to be a breakthrough.
- 20:18 03/12/2009
At least 19 people including three Cabinet ministers were killed in suicide bombing in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday, Al Jazeera reported.
- 18:59 03/12/2009
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday he thinks "highly" of the Russian president's European security proposal.
- 18:41 03/12/2009
Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and Italy's energy giant Eni signed on Thursday a memo of understanding to include France's EDF into the South Stream gas pipeline project.
- 18:33 03/12/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday against any ill wishing, including economic, to the U.S. or any other country.
- 18:32 03/12/2009
Russia would continue to assist the U.S. in its military operation in Afghanistan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said following a Russian-Italian summit on Wednesday.
- 17:38 03/12/2009
"We have no information on Iran's work on nuclear weapons," the prime minister said during an annual televised question-and-answer session with Russians.
- 17:18 03/12/2009
The proceeds from the sale of assets of the now defunct oil company Yukos were spent on establishing a fund for housing and utilities sector reforms, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 15:34 03/12/2009
Osama bin Laden is not in hiding in Pakistan, the country's prime minster said on Thursday.
- 15:34 03/12/2009
The Russian government is ready to provide extra support to the ailing car giant AvtoVAZ if its restructuring proves to be effective, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 15:17 03/12/2009
At least three people died in a blast involving a bus in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday, national media reported
- 14:27 03/12/2009
Vladimir Putin said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik Amendment that restricts U.S. trade with Russia was an "anachronism" hindering Russia's World Trade Organization accession bid.
- 14:19 03/12/2009
Russia exported over 5.3 million carats of rough diamonds worth $540.9 million in July-September 2009, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.
- 13:59 03/12/2009
The Abkhaz Foreign Ministry said on Thursday Ecuador would consider the recognition of the former Georgian republic as an independent state.
- 13:51 03/12/2009
The work of the NATO-Russia Council has been put back on a constructive track, Russia's envoy to the 28-member military alliance said on Thursday.
- 13:19 03/12/2009
The U.S. will request its NATO partners to send from 5,000 to 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, a source in the U.S. mission to NATO told RIA Novosti on Thursday
