- 22:59 28/12/2009
The United States opposes Israel's plans to build new homes in East Jerusalem, a spokesman for the White House said.
- 22:41 28/12/2009
Ukraine's dispute with Russia on oil transit fees will not affect supplies to Eastern Europe, national oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Monday.
- 22:21 28/12/2009
Georgian Airways said on Monday that the dates for the first flights between Moscow and Tbilisi since air travel between the countries was frozen three years ago have been put back from December 29-30 by at least a week.
- 21:03 28/12/2009
Russia's triumphant Team Kamaz expects to win the Dakar Rally again next year, adding to seven winning titles from the legendary off-road race, one of the team's drivers said on Monday.
- 19:36 28/12/2009
Russia is concerned by the recent clashes between demonstrators and police in Tehran, and calls for restraint and conciliation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 18:38 28/12/2009
Talks on an international climate deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which failed in December, will resume after New Year holidays, Russia's WWF chief said on Monday.
- 18:31 28/12/2009
Gazprom Export, the export arm of energy giant Gazprom, and PetroChina, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), have agreed the basic terms of Russian natural gas supplies to China, Gazprom said Monday.
- 17:44 28/12/2009
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined efforts by Cypriot investigators to find the body of the former Greek Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos, which was stolen from his grave earlier this month.
- 17:28 28/12/2009
Round-the-clock TV news network Russia Today (RT) launched its Spanish channel on Monday, to add to its English and Arabic channels.
- 16:49 28/12/2009
Serbia's state-run gas company Srbijagas and Russian energy giant Gazprom have signed a contract on the supply of up to 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Serbia in 2010, Srbijagas said.
- 16:29 28/12/2009
At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured in Karachi on Monday when a suicide bomber attacked a Shiite Muslim procession, Pakistan's Aaj TV reported.
- 16:02 28/12/2009
At least 15 people died in clashes between Taliban militants and tribal militia in Pakistan on Monday, local media reported.
- 16:00 28/12/2009
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month-by-month review of 2009 continues, with September
- 15:04 28/12/2009
Germany issued permission on Monday for the construction of Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline in its exclusive economic zone.
- 14:48 28/12/2009
Greek police have detained a man who called earlier warning about a bomb on a ferry with over 500 passengers on board, a Greek border guard representative said.
- 13:51 28/12/2009
The death toll in last weekend's anti-government protests in Tehran has risen to at least eight on Monday, Iran's state-run Press TV reported.
- 13:47 28/12/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that circumstances for the resumption of talks with North Korea on its controversial nuclear program have improved.
- 13:30 28/12/2009
RIA Novosti presents the past year’s ten most important global events, as chosen by its correspondents.
- 12:47 28/12/2009
The program of civilian shipbuilding development in the Russian Far East stipulates financing estimated at $5 billion, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
