- 22:38 15/12/2009
The head of Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that Russia expects no problems with Ukraine's payment for Russian natural gas in December.
- 21:37 15/12/2009
Polish police have forced 230 asylum seekers from Georgia and Chechnya to leave a train they had boarded in an attempt to illegally reach Strasbourg in a human rights protest.
- 20:54 15/12/2009
Vietnam has signed a deal with Russia to buy submarines, aircraft and other military hardware, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on Tuesday.
- 19:59 15/12/2009
The recognition of Abkhazia's independence by Nauru, the world's smallest island state, is utterly irrelevant, the Georgian minister for reintegration said on Tuesday.
- 19:49 15/12/2009
NATO's chief will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday to discuss the situations in Afghanistan and Iran, a European security treaty and a host of other issues, a Kremlin source said.
- 19:04 15/12/2009
Seventy years have passed since the American public first heard Vivienne Leigh say "I can't think about that right now... I'll think about that tomorrow," during the Atlanta premiere of Gone With the Wind.
- 17:56 15/12/2009
Russian energy giant Gazprom and Vietnam's oil and gas group Petrovietnam signed on Tuesday an agreement on establishing a joint venture.
- 17:42 15/12/2009
Some 200 foreigners who seized a train in Poland on Tuesday to take their complaints about poor living conditions in camps to Strasbourg reached the German border, Radio Wroclaw said.
- 17:19 15/12/2009
Russian scientists believe that the ongoing UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will produce no tangible results, a leading Russian expert said on Tuesday.
- 17:11 15/12/2009
At least 22 people were killed and more than 60 were injured when a car bomb exploded on Tuesday near the home of a politician in Pakistan's Punjab province, regional media said.
- 17:00 15/12/2009
Iran on Tuesday denied foreign media reports that it is preparing to test the final component of a nuclear bomb, IRNA news agency reported.
- 16:08 15/12/2009
Tatneft, one of Russia's top 10 crude producers, said on Tuesday its U.S. GAAP net profit increased 55%, year-on-year, in January-September 2009 to 47.15 billion rubles ($1.6 billion).
- 15:40 15/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received on Tuesday Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and said he was seeking to cooperate on several large projects with the socialist republic.
- 14:45 15/12/2009
Kazakhstan's uranium production will hit 13,500 metric tons in 2009, or up 58% from last year, making the ex-Soviet state the world's leading uranium producer, Kazatomprom said on Tuesday.
- 14:41 15/12/2009
The construction of the world's longest cross-sea bridge began in China on Tuesday, the Xinhua news agency said.
- 14:03 15/12/2009
A meeting of representatives of the Iran Six due next week to discuss Tehran's nuclear program has been canceled at China's request, Iran's ISNA news agency said on Tuesday.
- 14:02 15/12/2009
A Japanese whaling fleet crew has clashed with a Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel in the Antarctic Ocean, Australian media reported.
- 13:53 15/12/2009
Eight people were killed and 40 injured when a car exploded in the fashionable northeast part of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, an Afghan radio station reported on Tuesday.
- 13:31 15/12/2009
A forum of natural gas exporting countries will be fully operational in 2010, Russia's energy minister said on Tuesday.
