* Russia and the U.S. have concluded talks on the former's accession to the World Trade Organization and the deal will be signed in Vietnam next week, but multilateral talks will require six months to complete, Russia's economics minister, German Gref, said
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 07:21 GMT
U.S. President George W. Bush will meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during a refueling stop in Moscow next week, amid signs the two countries are overcoming strained ties by striking a deal on Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 10:00 GMT
Russia has been negotiating deals to provide electricity to North and South Korea, a Russian official said, although the talks are now in jeopardy because of U.N. Security Council sanctions against the communist nation.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 10:00 GMT
DOMODEDOVO (near Moscow), November 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Interior Ministry has technologies to protect air transport from terrorist attacks, the head of the agency said Saturday.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 10:03 GMT
GROZNY, November 11 (RIA Novosti) – Chechen police said Saturday they found a large arms cache during a search operation in central Chechnya, and a smaller one after arresting a suspect militant in the republic's south.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 10:05 GMT
Voters in Georgia's breakaway Republic of South Ossetia will head to the polls on November 12 to choose a new president and to participate in a referendum on the unrecognized republic's independent status.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 10:21 GMT
GROZNY, November 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Chechnya may have come a step closer to the rule of law as a newly-formed constitutional court held its first session in the troubled republic Saturday.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 10:37 GMT
MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia-led peacekeepers in the zone of conflict between Georgia and breakaway South Ossetia dismissed the post-Soviet Caucasus state's accusations of "criminal inactivity" Saturday.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 11:06 GMT
MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti) – Ways to make Russian municipalities more involved in federal decision-making will be high on the agenda of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party as it gathers for its next congress December 2, the head of the party's local self-government council said Saturday.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 12:04 GMT
TBILISI, November 11 (RIA Novosti) – Georgia's prime minister introduced a new economics minister to the Cabinet Saturday following the president-ordered reshuffles the day before, Novosti-Georgia reported.
// Nov. 11, 2006 - 12:36 GMT