Russian aluminum giant RusAl has confirmed that two of its Russian employees, abducted in December in southern Nigeria, have been released. The two Russians, who worked at the Alscon plant (the Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria), were abducted when armed assailants attacked a RusAl workers compound to the south of the Ikot Abasi port town on December 20.
// Feb. 20, 2009 - 06:19 GMT
Russian steel giant Mechel has agreed to supply annually between 100,000 to 300,000 metric tons of coking coal to South Korea's Hyundai Steel from 2010, a Russian delegation source said on Friday.
// Feb. 20, 2009 - 06:40 GMT
Here is a new selection of letters to U.S. President Barack Obama received by RIA Novosti from February14 to February 20
// Feb. 20, 2009 - 07:06 GMT
The Russian ambassador to Latvia has denied rumors that Russia was involved in violent unrest last month in the Latvian capital, when some 50 people were injured, a Latvian news website said on Friday.
// Feb. 20, 2009 - 08:11 GMT
Russia supports the current format of having five veto-holding permanent members on the UN Security Council, Russia's envoy to the UN said.
// Feb. 20, 2009 - 08:12 GMT
A Ukrainian An-12 cargo plane burst into flames on Friday as it tried to take off in south Egypt killing five crew members, the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority head was quoted as saying by the MENA news agency.
// Feb. 20, 2009 - 08:40 GMT
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed on Friday a decree to close a U.S. airbase used since 2001 to support NATO operations in nearby Afghanistan, his press service said.
// Feb. 20, 2009 - 08:44 GMT
Russia's consul in North Korea has been denied permission to board a Russian vessel earlier seized by border guards off the coast of the secretive communist state, the ship's owner said on Friday.
// Feb. 20, 2009 - 08:53 GMT