A foreign vessel flying a Cambodian flag has been detained on suspicion of poaching of crab in the Pacific Ocean, near Russia's largest island of Sakhalin, a regional coast guard spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
// Feb. 09, 2009 - 06:22 GMT
Japanese police arrested on Monday a Pakistani man in connection with the killing of a Russian woman on Japan's largest island of Honshu, local media said.
// Feb. 09, 2009 - 06:26 GMT
The first rail shipment of high-quality Russian flour has arrived in the Afghan city of Hairaton, an economic and trade advisor to the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan said on Monday.
// Feb. 09, 2009 - 07:24 GMT
Cuban lawmakers are planning to visit Russia in summer to meet with their Russian counterparts, a senior Cuban official told RIA Novosti on Monday.
// Feb. 09, 2009 - 07:30 GMT
A 14-year-old boy was killed on Monday by an avalanche while snowboarding near Russia's Far Eastern city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, local rescuers said.
// Feb. 09, 2009 - 08:22 GMT
On February 8, the Moscow racecourse hosted the 10th Russian Troika Championship.
// Feb. 09, 2009 - 08:44 GMT
The Russian missile frigate Neustrashimy, which took part in the anti-pirate operations in the Gulf of Aden, returned to its home port of Baltiysk.
// Feb. 09, 2009 - 08:55 GMT
Kyrgyz parliament's committees began on Monday debates on the closure of a U.S. military airbase, a deputy head of the parliament's committee on international affairs said.
// Feb. 09, 2009 - 09:07 GMT