* Belarus's state oil company Belneftekhim said it has officially notified Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft of imposing a transit duty of $45 per metric ton of Russian oil from January 1
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 07:10 GMT
WASHINGTON, January 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's transportation minister is set to discuss air traffic and transport security cooperation, as well as the development of the Russian transport infrastructure during his two-day visit to the United States, the minister's press secretary said Friday.
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 07:26 GMT
PETROPAVLOVSK KAMCHATSKY, January 5 (RIA Novosti) – Prosecutors in Russia's Far East have opened a criminal case against the captain of a Cambodian fishing boat, which was detained January 2 for alleged poaching, the Kamchatka environmental prosecutor's office said Friday.
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 08:07 GMT
Pieces of a spent Russian rocket reentered the atmosphere over Colorado and Wyoming early on Thursday, showering parts of the western United States with space debris, U.S. space monitors said.
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 08:28 GMT
MOSCOW, January 5 (RIA Novosti) – The U.S. sanctions against several Russian companies are unjustified and unfair, a senior Russian member of parliament said Friday.
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 11:14 GMT
Russia has agreed in principle to write off up to 80 percent of some eight billion dollars owed by North Korea, a South Korean newspaper report has said.
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 11:32 GMT
The U.S. sanctions against several Russian companies are unjustified and unfair, a senior Russian member of parliament has said.
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 11:45 GMT
On Thursday, Jan. 4, official representative of U.S. State Department Sean McCormack said that Belarusian government's decision to introduce transit duty on Russian oil going to Europe exposed the "rotten core" of Alexander Lukashenko's regime.
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 11:54 GMT
The U.S. administration is imposing sanctions against Russian arms exporters, as well as their Chinese and North Korean colleagues, for selling missiles and weapons to Iran and Syria, administration officials were quoted as saying by the <i>Washington Times</i>. Russia is likely to be affected the hardest by this new set of sanctions.
// Jan. 05, 2007 - 12:04 GMT