* Russian energy giant Gazprom has purchased 50% plus one share of Sakhalin Energy, the project operator of the major Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast, for $7.45 billion
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 05:31 GMT
TOKYO, December 22 (RIA Novosti) – Participants in the six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program will discuss Friday the viability of the current format for negotiations on the last day of meetings, resumed after a 13-month suspension in Beijing four days ago, Japan's envoy said.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 06:48 GMT
MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's president will meet with his Ukrainian counterpart in Kiev Friday to discuss many sensitive issues that have overshadowed bilateral relations since the "orange revolution," an aide to Vladimir Putin said.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 07:38 GMT
MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has postponed the launch of a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia for 24 hours, a Space Forces spokesperson said Friday.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 07:38 GMT
MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Russian Central Bank totaled 514.1 billion rubles ($19.55 billion at the current exchange rates) at the beginning of the business day, up 7.7% (36.7 billion rubles / $1.4 billion) from Thursday, the CBR said Friday.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 07:49 GMT
MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) – Local police did not take appropriate measures to prevent a terrorist attack on a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan in September 2004, a parliamentary investigation commission said Friday.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 08:04 GMT
Russian concerns that proposed United Nations sanctions on Iran would prohibit activities unrelated to nuclear arms will probably delay a Security Council vote on the measure, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin has said.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 08:05 GMT
MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Central Bank said Friday that the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 2,912.3 billion rubles ($110.78 billion at the current exchange rate) as of December 18, up 68.5 billion rubles ($2.61 billion) in the week since December 11.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 08:05 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek to improve ties with Ukraine on a visit Friday, in the midst of a power struggle between the former Soviet partner's president and premier over whether its future lies with Russia or the West.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 08:24 GMT
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow on Thursday.
// Dec. 22, 2006 - 08:27 GMT