* Russian and British investigators started questioning Andrei Lugovoi, a key witness in the murder of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko by radiation poisoning, a source close to investigators said
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 08:14 GMT
MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) – An overnight fire in a drug treatment hospital in southern Moscow killed 45 patients and staff and injured ten others, a senior Russian emergencies official said Saturday.
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 09:02 GMT
A fire broke out in a women's ward of a Moscow drug treatment hospital early Saturday, killing 45 women trapped by barred windows and a locked gate. Chief fire inspector said he was "90 percent certain" that the fire was caused by arson".
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 09:56 GMT
Channel 4 has commissioned a television drama about the poisoning of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. The programme will be written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, who also directed army drama Warriors and The Project, about the rise of New Labour.
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 10:03 GMT
A woman wounded during the 2004 school hostage-taking in the southern Russian town of Beslan died of her injuries Friday, bringing the total death toll to 334, a Beslan activist has said.
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 10:18 GMT
TEHRAN, December 9 (RIA Novosti) – Iran's president said Saturday the country had installed 3,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges at its pilot nuclear facility at Natanz, moving one step closer to producing nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 10:46 GMT
PYATIGORSK, December 9 (RIA Novosti) – Cleanup operations were launched Saturday to remove a pipeline oil spill in the southern Russian province of Stavropol.
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 11:33 GMT
MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to Soviet-born U.S. boxing star Oleg Maskayev, the Kremlin press office said Saturday.
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 12:15 GMT
MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed ways to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in a telephone conversation with the Turkish prime minister Saturday.
// Dec. 09, 2006 - 12:32 GMT