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Minsk - Belarusian diplomats are taking steps to secure the release from custody in Libya of three Belarusian citizens during their trial under the guarantees of the Belarusian Embassy in Tripoli, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Savinykh told Interfax on Friday, May 18. Yesterday at 17:22 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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SEVASTOPOL - The command of the Smetlivy destroyer of the Russian Black Sea Fleet has received orders to continue its combat mission off the coast of Syria as the situation required it, Interfax-AVN was told at the fleet's headquarters. Yesterday at 12:54 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Emergency officials say a fire at a military ammunition depot in Russia's far east has left at least two soldiers wounded and prompted authorities to evacuate villages and halt traffic on a key railway. Yesterday at 16:01 | Associated Press |
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St. Petersburg - The State Duma will consider the documents concerning Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the next two or three months, said Maksim Medvedkov, Director of the Department of Trade Negotiations at the Russian Economic Development Ministry. Yesterday at 18:08 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Minsk - The time of Russia's misunderstanding Belarus is gone, said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Yesterday at 18:43 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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TBILISI - Georgian Railway will hold an initial public offering for up to 25% of its shares in the form of Global Depositary Receipts (GDR) on the London Stock Exchange on May 24, a source in the Georgian government administration told Interfax. Yesterday at 09:17 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin has given a senior government post to a tank factory worker who had offered to come to Moscow with fellow laborers to disperse opposition protests. Yesterday at 14:40 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW - Russian riot police detained a prominent protest leader and five other demonstrators on May 17 as authorities extended a crackdown on Occupy-style protests in central Moscow against newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin. Yesterday at 07:00 | Reuters |
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan's president has ordered the release of 1,000 prisoners as part of a mass amnesty to mark a major annual holiday in the gas-rich former Soviet Central Asian nation. Yesterday at 13:26 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW — A court says it has convicted a Russian defense company worker of passing missile secrets to foreign intelligence. Yesterday at 10:56 | Associated Press |