* A British Airways airliner singled out for radiation tests as part of investigations into the death of Russian ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko has left Moscow for London, the airport's press service said
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 08:13 GMT
YEKATERINBURG, December 2 (RIA Novosti) – United Russia should win the upcoming parliamentary election, the pro-Kremlin party leader said Saturday.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 08:43 GMT
SHARM EL SHEIKH, December 2 (RIA Novosti) – Peace plans for Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine are unviable without consensus and coordinated efforts of the international community, the Russian foreign minister said Saturday.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 09:22 GMT
SHARM EL SHEIKH, December 2 (RIA Novosti) – The firing of Ukraine's foreign minister will not affect relations between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian foreign minister said Saturday.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 10:08 GMT
An Italian intelligence expert who had lunch with Alexander Litvinenko on the day that he was poisoned was receiving emergency treatment in hospital Friday after testing positive for the same deadly radioactive isotope that killed the former Russian security agent.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 10:17 GMT
Russian scientists announced Friday they had developed a new antiretroviral drug for people living with HIV, which could also help AIDS sufferers.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 10:24 GMT
Venezuela has received its first two of 24 Sukhoi fighter jets from Russia, a key component of a hefty arms build up by President Hugo Chavez's government.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 10:33 GMT
Indonesia will take priority in military and energy cooperation with Russia, visiting Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said after talking with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday. "First of all, we expect to continue to cooperate with Russia in the military-technological area," Yudhoyono said at a joint press conference.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 10:41 GMT
The wife of an ex-KGB agent fatally poisoned in Britain and the Italian security expert he met the day he fell ill both showed traces of the same radioactive substance found in the dead man's body, friends and officials have said.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 10:57 GMT
MOSCOW, December 2 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill reinstating disciplinary barracks, or guardhouses, in the country's armed forces, the Kremlin press service said Saturday.
// Dec. 02, 2006 - 10:59 GMT