* Estonian authorities barred Russian lawmakers from visiting the WWII memorial complex in central Tallinn, where the exhumation of Soviet soldiers' remains is under way, a member of the visiting State Duma delegation said
// May. 02, 2007 - 04:32 GMT
* 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