* Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Wednesday, April 25, a National Day of Mourning in observance of the passing of former President Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, the Kremlin press service said
// Apr. 24, 2007 - 04:37 GMT
* Ukraine's government and parliament will continue their regular work despite the president's order for the Supreme Rada to be dissolved, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said
// Apr. 04, 2007 - 04:35 GMT
* Washington will try to reassure officials in Moscow that the missile defense shield it plans to deploy in Central Europe does not undermine Russia's national security, a U.S. envoy said
// Mar. 24, 2007 - 08:09 GMT
* The latest reports suggest that 107 of the 203 miners were killed Monday in a methane blast that struck a recently opened West Siberian mine; search efforts are continuing, rescuers said
// Mar. 21, 2007 - 05:37 GMT
* Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed a long-delayed 1 billion-euro deal to build a 175-mile Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline, which will carry Russian oil via the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas and Greece's Alexandroupolis on the Aegean to Europe, the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region
// Mar. 16, 2007 - 05:36 GMT
* One miner died, two others were slightly injured and four miners suffered from burns and gas poisoning in a rock collapse caused by methane explosion in a coal mine in the Kemerovo Region in southwestern Siberia, the regional governor said
// Feb. 26, 2007 - 05:33 GMT
* A session of heads of delegations to six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program has started in Beijing after 17 hours of continuous negotiations, and consultations will continue on Tuesday afternoon
// Feb. 13, 2007 - 05:47 GMT
* The six negotiating parties in Beijing have nearly coordinated the first steps toward North Korea's disarmament, and only a few details remain to be finalized, the U.S. envoy at the talks said
// Feb. 10, 2007 - 07:02 GMT
* Russia's top prosecutors filed new money laundering charges against Yukos founders Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, their defense team said
// Feb. 06, 2007 - 05:34 GMT
* Russia has lifted a temporary ban on imports of pork and poultry products from Germany and banned Hungarian poultry imports following the discovery of bird flu in the Central European country, Russia's agricultural watchdog said
// Jan. 27, 2007 - 07:12 GMT