Russian President Dmitry Medvedev begins his three-day visit to Kazakhstan on Saturday to discuss a customs union and a single economic space with presidents of Kazakhstan and Belarus.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 00:02 GMT
Five people were killed in a traffic accident in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory on early Saturday.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 01:08 GMT
Heads of the pension funds of North Ossetia and Ingushetia were killed after their car crashed into a gas pipeline early on Saturday, an emergencies department spokeswoman said.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 01:54 GMT
China opened its Consulate-General in Russia's East Siberian city of Irkutsk on Friday to promote regional ties between two countries, Xinhua news agency reported.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 03:21 GMT
Law enforcers killed a notorious militant leader, Aslan Izrailov, during a special operation in Chechnya, the president of the North Caucasus republic said on Saturday.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 03:55 GMT
Russia's ambassador to Great Britain has refused to pay London some $4.6 million for diplomats driving into the city center because it violates the Vienna Convention on diplomatic privileges and immunity.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 07:21 GMT
Some 2,000 passengers were trapped under the English Channel when four trains broke down inside the underwater tunnel on Friday night.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 08:15 GMT
Afghanistan's first vice-president on Saturday introduced ministerial candidates of newly reelected President Hamid Karzai's government to the country's lower house of parliament for approval.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 08:59 GMT
A public viewing to pay last respects to the late Yegor Gaidar, one of the leading architects of free market reforms in post-Soviet Russia, has begun in Moscow.
// Dec. 19, 2009 - 09:11 GMT