Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday for talks with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, and to take part in meetings of CIS and Eurasec leaders, the Kremlin said.
// Oct. 09, 2008 - 05:37 GMT
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree on Thursday to officially dissolve the Supreme Rada and set December 7 as the date for snap parliamentary polls.
// Oct. 09, 2008 - 06:22 GMT
Siberia's Chita District Court granted a request by defense lawyers on Thursday to postpone until October 14 a hearing into extending court custody of ex-Yukos executive, Platon Lebedev.
// Oct. 09, 2008 - 06:39 GMT
Russia's NATO envoy has said that Ukrainian weapons were delivered to Georgia, and that the last delivery came as Georgian forces were attacking breakaway South Ossetia.
// Oct. 09, 2008 - 06:54 GMT
The Progress aircraft maker, based in Russia's Far East, will start deliveries of the Ka-52 Hokum-B combat/reconnaissance helicopter to the Russian Air Force in 2009, a Russian business daily said on Thursday.
// Oct. 09, 2008 - 06:56 GMT
On Wednesday, Russia withdrew its peacekeeping forces ahead of schedule from a buffer around South Ossetia.
// Oct. 09, 2008 - 07:34 GMT
The main suspect in a Moscow Region real estate fraud case, released last week on an unprecedented bail of 50 million rubles ($2 million) and later re-arrested on different charges, has been released again.
// Oct. 09, 2008 - 08:02 GMT
Russia's State Property Committee has approved the transfer of the state's stakes in the embattled AirUnion alliance to the state-run Russian Technology Corporation, a Russian paper said on Thursday.
// Oct. 09, 2008 - 08:12 GMT