* Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko, killed by poisoning in London last month, was laid to rest in Highgate Cemetery

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 05:27 GMT

MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian president and his aide have, in separate statements, revitalized hopes that foreign companies might participate in Gazprom's ambitious Shtokman project off Russia's Arctic shelf.

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 06:23 GMT

Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko was laid to rest in a London cemetery, but the Russian-British investigation into the high-profile case continues.

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 06:30 GMT

Russia warned on Thursday that Ukraine's NATO membership would affect relations with Moscow "one way or another."

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 06:37 GMT

Russia's sales of weapons and military hardware may total some $6 billion in 2006, the country's President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, Dec. 7. The President said that Russia's military hardware "enjoys high demand in the world".

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 07:11 GMT

The Eton-educated son of a Russian oil billionaire who killed a friend in a high-speed car crash was yesterday jailed for 6,5 years.

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 07:13 GMT

MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Central Bank said Friday that the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 2,782 billion rubles ($106.22 billion at the current exchange rate) as of December 4, down 20.2 billion rubles ($771.3 million in the week since November 27.

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 07:24 GMT

MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) – The first plane carrying Russian combat engineers who helped Lebanon repair infrastructure devastated in fighting between Hizbollah and the Israeli military this summer has flown out of Beirut, a defense ministry official said Friday.

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 07:27 GMT

MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's investment index will open Friday at 782.01 points, up 0.01% on the previous day's trading, following Thursday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 07:41 GMT

GROZNY, December 8 (RIA Novosti) – One serviceman was killed and eight wounded when an Interior Ministry armored personnel carrier was blown up by a landmine on the Grozny-Argun road in Chechnya, law enforcement officials said Friday.

// Dec. 08, 2006 - 07:45 GMT