* Colonel Sergei Ignatchenkov, a spokesman for Russia' Federal Security Service (FSB), said it had identified four British agents involved in espionage activities under diplomatic cover and seized a sophisticated spying device presumably used to contact agents
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 05:20 GMT
BAKU, January 24 (RIA Novosti)--Russia's defense minister refused to rule out Tuesday the possibility that peacekeepers from the country could be involved in efforts to resolve a long-standing conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 06:24 GMT
VLADIKAVKAZ, January 24 (RIA Novosti) – Welding work to repair a Russian gas pipeline to Georgia that was damaged in a suspected terrorist attack has not started yet, a spokesman in southern Russia said Tuesday.
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 06:50 GMT
After a year of silence, Osama bin Laden has filled the world's headlines with an audiotape, and the predictable opinions are being heard. Is his offering of a truce a sign of weakness or strength? Is he making such statements because he is harried or is the statement a result of the recent U.S. missile attack in Pakistan? All of these questions are to be expected from a media that has usually asked: Is he really alive? Where is he? It rarely asks: What did he say/mean?
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 07:02 GMT
CAIRO, January 24 (RIA Novosti) – Health ministers from the League of Arab States (LAS), an association of Arab nations, will meet in Cairo Tuesday for an emergency session on bird flu.
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 07:24 GMT
NEW DELHI, January 24 (RIA Novosti) – Saudi Arabia's oil minister ruled out Tuesday making cutbacks in crude supplies before OPEC member countries meet for an extraordinary session on January 31, 2006.
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 08:04 GMT
MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti) – Maria Sharapova made it through to the semifinals of the Australian Open on day nine of the 2006 season's first Grand Slam event, but Russia's ladies contribution in the doubles tournament came to an end with two defeats.
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 08:35 GMT
MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti) – The Finance Ministry of Russia intends to launch 30-year federal loan bonds (OFZs) worth about 30 billion rubles (about $1 billion) in 2006, a senior official said Tuesday.
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 08:37 GMT
MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti) – The average weighted dollar rate for contracts with "tomorrow" settlements was 27.9898 rubles during Tuesday morning's unified trading session on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX), down 6.14 kopeks from Monday.
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 08:47 GMT
MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti) – The average weighted euro rate for contracts with "today" settlements was 34.3942 rubles during Tuesday morning's unified trading session on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX), up 4.5 kopeks from Monday.
// Jan. 24, 2006 - 08:57 GMT