BEIJING, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – China successfully launched Monday the third Yaogan-series earth remote-sensing satellite, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 06:16 GMT

BELGRADE, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Exit polls indicate that left-wing opposition leader Danilo Turk has won the second round of presidential elections in Slovenia with around 70% of the vote, defeating the former premier Lozje Peterle.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 06:35 GMT

MAKHACHKALA, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Five militants are holed up in a private house in Daghestan, a republic in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, a local police source said Monday.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 06:51 GMT

KRASNODAR, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Emergency services have found three bodies and continue the search for five sailors missing from one of four ships which sank during a powerful storm between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea at the weekend.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 07:01 GMT

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's investment index will open Monday at 912.92 points, down 1.4% following Friday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 07:03 GMT

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Russian Central Bank totaled 572.3 billion rubles ($23.4 billion at the current exchange rates) at the beginning of the business day, down 2.4% from Friday, the CBR said Monday.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 07:14 GMT

TBILISI, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Three Russian diplomats expelled from Georgia for allegedly supporting local opposition rallies, have left the country, Georgian television said Monday.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 07:30 GMT

MAKHACHKALA, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – At least eight militants were killed during a police assault on a militant hideout in Daghestan, a republic in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, a local police source said Monday.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 08:34 GMT

Ian Bremmer, the leading American expert on CIS affairs, the President of influential Eurasia Group consulting firm speaks on his attitude to ongoing crisis in Georgia in an interview to RIA Novosti New York Bureau Chief Dmitry Gornostaev.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 08:43 GMT

MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and Bulgaria could sign an agreement on building a gas pipeline to run under the Black Sea directly from Russia to the European Union in January, a Russian official said on Monday.

// Nov. 12, 2007 - 08:47 GMT