* Chechen Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudayev was killed in a fire that broke out in a trailer within the Chechen government complex. According to preliminary information, the fire was caused by an electricity cable short circuit
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 05:33 GMT
HONG KONG, December 12 (RIA Novosti, Mark Zavadsky) – The United States is unlikely to sign a bilateral agreement with Russia on its accession to the World Trade Organization before the turn of the year, a senior delegate to the sixth ministerial WTO conference in Hong Kong said Monday.
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 06:02 GMT
VLADIVOSTOK, December 12 (RIA Novosti, Veronika Perminova) – Russia and China have signed a program to conduct joint monitoring of the Amur River in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, a local official said Monday.
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 06:24 GMT
BISHKEK, December 12 (RIA Novosti)-The president of the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has ordered a deputy premier to act to end a bitter scandal that has embroiled the country's largest independent television station, a senior official said Monday.
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 06:47 GMT
Five people died and two are missing after a Russian fishing boat sank near the South Kurils coast.
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 07:09 GMT
Three people were killed after the roof of a Moscow jail building collapsed; 10 other people were reportedly injured and officials fear more people may be trapped under the rubble.
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 07:11 GMT
A top official of Chechnya's pro-Moscow Security Council has been killed in a fire that broke out in a residential building within the government complex.
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 07:13 GMT
BEIJING, December 12 (RIA Novosti, Alexei Yefimov)-One of China's leading energy companies issued a strongly worded denial Monday that it was interested in acquiring some non-core assets of embattled Russian oil major Yukos.
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 07:31 GMT
MOSCOW, December 12 (RIA Novosti) – An inmate thought to have died when a Moscow jail roof collapsed Sunday reportedly killing three people could have escaped, a source in the Moscow Region investigative agencies said Monday.
// Dec. 12, 2005 - 07:56 GMT