On Wednesday, Dec. 27, Moldova has signed an agreement with Moscow backing Russian membership in the World Trade Organization after Russia promised to resolve an agricultural dispute.
// Dec. 28, 2006 - 05:18 GMT
* Gazprom will not supply natural gas to Belarus until a new contract is signed, said Sergei Kupriyanov, an official spokesman for the Russian energy giant
// Dec. 28, 2006 - 05:26 GMT
After Belarus has issued an implicit threat that its deepening dispute over natural gas prices with Russia's Gazprom could jeopardize deliveries of Russian gas across its territory, Gazprom has issued its own warning to the European customers.
// Dec. 28, 2006 - 05:28 GMT
VLADIVOSTOK, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – Three passengers of a private helicopter have been missing since Tuesday when the aircraft disappeared in the Primorye Territory in Russia's Far East, a local emergency services official said Thursday.
// Dec. 28, 2006 - 05:48 GMT
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// Dec. 28, 2006 - 06:16 GMT
MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's investment index will open Thursday at 764.83 points, down 0.12% on the previous day's trading, following Wednesday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.
// Dec. 28, 2006 - 07:12 GMT
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – A court in Russia's Far East ruled Thursday to confiscate a Japanese ship caught poaching in Russian waters in early November, local prosecutors said.
// Dec. 28, 2006 - 07:31 GMT
NOVOSIBIRSK, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – A court in West Siberia has sentenced three skinheads convicted of committing several racially motivated attacks on foreigners to between five-and-a-half and eight years in prison, a court official said Thursday.
// Dec. 28, 2006 - 07:32 GMT
MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Central Bank of Russia totaled 657 billion rubles ($24.9 billion at the current exchange rate) at the beginning of the business day, up 2% from Wednesday, the CBR said Thursday.
// Dec. 28, 2006 - 07:37 GMT