- 23:48 21/12/2009
The German government and parliament are ready to discuss Russia's proposals on European security, a German MP said Monday.
- 23:39 21/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Turkmenistan on Monday to hold talks on cooperation in the fuel and energy sphere with his counterpart President Gurbaguly Berdymukhamedov.
- 22:27 21/12/2009
Middle East states should display political will to prevent nuclear weapon proliferation in the region, experts said Monday.
- 22:07 21/12/2009
Israel's withdrawal from occupied territories would only create new security problems, an Israeli political analyst said on Monday.
- 20:40 21/12/2009
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be resolved in the current political climate, a Russian expert said on Monday.
- 20:26 21/12/2009
The trial of John Demjanjuk, charged with involvement in the murder of 27,900 people as a death camp guard during WWII, resumed in Munich on Monday, local media reported.
- 19:34 21/12/2009
The iron sign, which was stolen from the entrance to a Nazi-era concentration camp in Poland, may return to the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum on December 22, the museum's spokesman told RIA Novosti on Monday.
- 19:22 21/12/2009
If parties to the Mideast conflict are unable to agree among themselves, the international community should impose a collective solution, a Russian expert said on Monday.
- 18:30 21/12/2009
The ISS is a combination of several space station projects including the American Freedom, the Russian Mir-2, the European Columbus and the Japanese Kibō.
- 18:09 21/12/2009
More than 50 leading Arab media outlets are covering an international conference called "Middle East 2020: Is a Comprehensive Settlement Possible?" in Jordan.
- 17:57 21/12/2009
Iran plans to boost oil output 30% to 5.15 million barrels a day and almost double gas output to 1.111 billion cubic meters a day by 2015, the Iranian state channel Press TV said on Monday.
- 17:52 21/12/2009
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, expected in about a year's time, will hardly stabilize the situation in the country, a former Russian prime minister said Monday.
- 17:14 21/12/2009
Russia opposes efforts to edge the UN Security Council out of the Middle East peace process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 16:56 21/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged on Monday Israelis and Palestinians to follow the roadmap of the Middle East peace settlement and give up unilateral actions.
- 16:42 21/12/2009
Former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei said on Monday it would be a blunder to resume negotiations with Israel on the Middle East settlement in the present context.
- 16:04 21/12/2009
Any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would have "horrible and unpredictable consequences," a former Russian prime minister said on Monday.
- 16:03 21/12/2009
Poor repairs to a generating unit contributed to the August tragedy at a Siberian hydropower plant, lawmakers said on Monday, citing a parliamentary commission's findings.
- 16:00 21/12/2009
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below a month-by-month review of 2009 continues with February
- 15:49 21/12/2009
A Russian senator has called the reset in relations with the United States, in particular the countries' coordinated position on a new strategic arms reduction deal, one of the key results of the outgoing year.
