A Russian-made cargo aircraft that flouted the Indian airspace late on Friday is currently awaiting permission for take-off at Mumbai airport, an airport spokesman said on Saturday.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 06:58 GMT

Ukraine will ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to increase a third loan tranche by $600 million to $3.8 billion, a Ukrainian weekly quoted the country's acting finance minister as saying on Saturday.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 07:40 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands have opened a branch of the St. Petersburg-based Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 08:29 GMT

Unusual shrimp-like creatures, amphipods, were discovered during a dive into East Siberia's Lake Baikal, a member of the expedition told RIA Novosti on Saturday.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 09:44 GMT

A Moscow court sanctioned on Saturday the arrest of a Chechen woman suspected of kidnapping the son of the vice president of Russian oil giant Rosneft, a court spokeswoman said.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 10:29 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged the Netherlands on Saturday to push ahead with talks on participation in projects in northwest Siberia's Yamal run by Russian energy giant Gazprom.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 11:06 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday he hopes his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in July in Moscow will promote a new nuclear disarmament treaty.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 11:23 GMT

Five workers died after getting poisoned with gas at a construction site in a West Siberian city, a local emergencies spokesman said on Saturday.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 12:47 GMT

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said Saturday his country has its own way of development, rather comfortable and realizable, and is not going to join NATO.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 14:05 GMT

The third round of Russia-U.S. talks on a new nuclear disarmament treaty will start in Geneva on June 22, Russian presidential spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said Saturday.

// Jun. 20, 2009 - 15:03 GMT