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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 4:41 am ET
(RTTNews) - India and Russia have decided to raise bilateral trade to $20 billion by 2015, media reports said quoting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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Nasdaq - Wed Dec 9, 9:32 am ET
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- The Russian Finance Ministry said Wednesday that it will extend the final phase of its swap of outstanding Soviet commercial debt, which it intends to finish before its long-awaited Eurobond issue in 2009.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 3:19 am ET
Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday for the 112 victims of a weekend nightclub blaze, as investigators stepped up their probe into fire safety breaches and burials continued in Perm.
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 12:16 am ET
Vienna- After enduring several years of chilly relations with the West, Moscow re-entered the world stage in 2009, welcomed by Washington's reset of relations with the one...
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Sun-Sentinel - Tue Dec 8, 9:34 am ET
MOSCOW (AP) — A top Kremlin official is telling Russian news agencies that Moscow and Washington expect to strike a new nuclear arms treaty this month.
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CNN - 2 hours 51 minutes ago
Russia's top drugs adviser has called on the United States to use its troop surge into Afghanistan to help stem the flow of drugs entering its borders, as heroin addiction reaches epidemic levels.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 7:21 am ET
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Russia and its largest arms customer, India, signed an agreement on increasing defense cooperation. President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh oversaw the signing of the agreements that run from 2011 to 2020, according to the Kremlin press service.
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NPR - Mon Dec 7, 1:06 am ET
The transformation of Russia's military may be the most successful of President Dmitry Medvedev's programs, but it's also one of the most controversial. The huge project involves painful cuts and dismantling deep-vested interests that have thrived on bloated, Soviet-style armed forces.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 12:08 pm ET
Top Russian and US officials held talks in Moscow Monday dealing with the expired START nuclear weapons treaty, and a new deal could be reached by December 18, according to a Russian newspaper.
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CBS News - Tue Dec 8, 3:28 pm ET
Fire Chief Suspended; Club's Inspection Records Apparently Falsified
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 10:05 am ET
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Corrupt officials may have played a role in the Russian nightclub fire that killed at least 113 people in the Ural Mountains city of Perm, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ’s United Russia party said.
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Nasdaq - Wed Dec 9, 4:17 am ET
DOHA (Zawya Dow Jones)--The Gas Exporting Countries Forum, or GECF, has appointed the Russian nomination as Secretary-General, an official close to negotiations said Wednesday.
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USA Today - Tue Dec 8, 1:37 pm ET
The fire chief of a Russian city where a nightclub blaze killed 118 revelers was fired Tuesday and authorities said fire records for the club appear to have been falsified.
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Nasdaq - Tue Dec 8, 4:32 am ET
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russia will soon name a list of banks that may organize the country's sovereign debt issue next year, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Tuesday.
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Time Magazine - Tue Dec 8, 5:39 pm ET
After a lavish party thrown in Washington, India's Prime Minister inks abig nuke deal with Moscow. What gives?
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - 2 hours 32 minutes ago
UEFA says CSKA Moscow will not be kicked out of the Champions League despite two players failing post-match doping tests. The unnamed stimulant found in samples given by defenders Sergei Ignashevich and Alexei Berezutsky after a 3-3 draw against Manchester United last month was not serious enough to impose a team punishment, UEFA said on Wednesday.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - 2 hours 44 minutes ago
Russian banks' bad loans are a substantial threat for the country's underdeveloped financial sector, despite hopes of improvements by mid-2010, rating agency Standard & Poor's warned on Wednesday.
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Art Daily - Tue Dec 8, 12:01 am ET
STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- Norman Rockwell Museum Director/CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt has been appointed by the American Association of Museums (AAM) to serve as an official delegate on a cultural diplomacy trip to Russia with the United States Department of State and the President's Committee for the Arts and Humanities.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 2:35 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- OAO Magnit , Russia’s second-largest food retailer, said nine-month profit more than doubled after it added new discount stores to gain cash-strapped customers.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 6:17 am ET
Moscow - Russia marked a national day of mourning Monday for the 112 people who died in a nightclub fire, the largest in Russian history, in the Urals city of Perm on Friday. About 130 people were injured in the blaze, which started when a fireworks ...