* Doctors in Hamburg said the ex-wife of Dmitry Kovtun, a witness in the case of murdered former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, her children and boyfriend are not suffering from serious radiation poisoning
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 05:25 GMT
Negotiations on an Iran sanctions resolution were unexpectedly postponed Tuesday because of Russia's anger at the United States for raising the plight of an opposition leader in Belarus in the U.N. Security Council.
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 06:34 GMT
WASHINGTON, December 13 (RIA Novosti) – Two astronauts from the U.S. shuttle Discovery, currently docked with the International Space Station, successfully completed Wednesday the first of three spacewalks scheduled during shuttle's week-long stay with the ISS.
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 06:35 GMT
Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom is interested in joining Shell-led Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, but not at any price, the company's chairman and Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 06:47 GMT
The man who provided a "hit list" that was shown to former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill has gone into hiding according to media reports.
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 06:54 GMT
MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Russian Central Bank totaled 441 billion rubles ($16.8 billion at the current exchange rates) at the beginning of the business day, up 18.3% (68.2 billion rubles/$2.6 billion) from Tuesday, the CBR said Wednesday.
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 07:09 GMT
NOVOSIBIRSK, December 13 (RIA Novosti) – An investigation into the mayor of a Siberian city suspected of bribe-taking and extortion has revealed sizeable sums of cash in his office and in his relatives' flats, prosecutors said Wednesday.
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 07:20 GMT
Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom is interested in joining Shell-led Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, but not at any price, the company's chairman and Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 07:31 GMT
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// Dec. 13, 2006 - 07:33 GMT
The man who provided a "hit list" that was shown to former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill has gone into hiding according to media reports.
// Dec. 13, 2006 - 07:43 GMT