* Major-General Andrei Popov, in command of the Russian troops in the South Caucasus, said another train with Russian military hardware from a Soviet-era military base in Georgia had departed from the former Soviet republic according to plan.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 04:27 GMT
The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi represents one of those unparalleled ironies in history. Just think; the most prominent warlord of the Islamic Jihad against what he claims is a Christian based imperialism unleashed on Islam by the West, confronting a death that would only serve as a confirmation of one of the founder of Christianity's oft-quoted and profusely misapplied dictums: Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 05:14 GMT
MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's finance minister will hold bilateral talks Friday with his G8 counterparts and the head of the World Bank ahead of a G8 finance ministers meeting slated for Saturday, a spokesman said.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 05:18 GMT
MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's newest investment index will open Friday at 554.23 points, down 6.69% on the previous day's trading, following Thursday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 06:16 GMT
MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Central Bank said Friday that the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 2.3845 trillion rubles ($88.71 billion at the current exchange rate) as of June 5, up 2.9 billion rubles ($107.89 million) in the week since May 29.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 06:25 GMT
MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) – A police officer has been detained in connection with the beating of six Tajik students at a Moscow dormitory, prosecutors said Friday.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 06:30 GMT
NAZRAN, North Caucasus, June 9 (RIA Novosti) – Three law-enforcement officers and three children have been killed by gunmen in the troubled North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, a source in the local Interior Ministry said Friday.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 06:41 GMT
A Ukrainian woman has been arrested in Orlando for allegedly harboring an illegal alien – a 24-year-old Russian woman she was accused of enslaving, beating and forcing into prostitution.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 06:54 GMT
On Thursday, June 8, Russia became the latest in the list of countries that shifted a part of its Central Bank reserves out of dollar. Sergei Ignatyev, chairman of the Central Bank, said that only 50 percent of its reserves are now held in dollars, with 40 percent in euros and the rest in pounds sterling.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 07:02 GMT
Belarus has prepared a black list of foreign officials who will be denied entry to the country, the Belarusian foreign ministry said Thursday. Ministry spokesperson Andrei Popov said the move was a "symmetric response" following decisions by the European Union and the United States to ban Belarus state officials.
// Jun. 09, 2006 - 07:05 GMT