Moscow wants Kiev to return confiscated videos to Russian reporter
// Jul. 18, 2008 - 15:55 GMT
Prosecutors in the northeast Russian city of Murmansk said on Friday that a planned series of Jehovah's Witnesses services in a stadium cannot go ahead, as they contravene a law on the use of sports facilities.
// Jul. 18, 2008 - 12:17 GMT
Russia's president has signed a law allowing the government to allocate strategic oil and gas deposits on the continental shelf without auctions, the Kremlin said on Friday.
// Jul. 18, 2008 - 11:54 GMT
A brown bear killed two geologists in the northeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia's Far East, a local emergencies spokesman said on Friday.
// Jul. 18, 2008 - 09:46 GMT
Foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will decide on whether to lift a moratorium on bringing in new states at a meeting in Tajikistan on July 25, a Russian diplomat said on Friday.
// Jul. 18, 2008 - 09:30 GMT
Foreign ministers of the six countries negotiating North Korea's nuclear disarmament will meet in Singapore on July 24, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said on Friday.
// Jul. 18, 2008 - 08:17 GMT