Obama calls for tighter controls over the financial system
14/09/200923:26President Barack Obama called for reforms to banking regulation in the U.S. and globally in a speech on Wall Street on Monday, and accused some bankers of failing to learn lessons from the financial crisis.
Russia's AvtoVAZ to switch to full working week in December
14/09/200922:47Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, announced on Monday that it will re-introduce a full working week from December 14, with a workforce reduced by 5,000.
Prosecutors open probe into Bolshoi reconstruction embezzlement
14/09/200922:38Russian prosecutors have opened a probe into the suspected embezzlement of millions of dollars during the reconstruction of Moscow's famed Bolshoi Theater.
Fifty years since Nikita Khrushchev's first visit to the United States
14/09/200921:02RIA Novosti interviews historian Igor Dolutsky
Russian economy still needs modernization - deputy PM
14/09/200920:56Russia must continue work to modernize the economy, despite the current need to channel resources into anti-crisis and pension programs, a deputy premier said on Monday.
Israeli premier rejects complete freeze of outpost construction
14/09/200920:43Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the country will not permanently freeze the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
South Russian province says most killed militants are foreigners
14/09/200920:36Almost all militants recently killed in counter-terrorist operations in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia were foreign mercenaries, the republic's president said on Monday.
A miracle-working icon arrives in Russia from the U.S.
14/09/200920:33
Algeria floods leave 20 dead
14/09/200920:30Twenty people died in Algeria as a result of torrential rain and severe flooding which swept the country last week, national media reported on Monday.
Medvedev says global dominance is illusion, welcomes criticism
14/09/200920:13Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that the idea of global dominance must be abandoned in world politics, and more intelligent policies adopted.
Russian state bank pledges no direct influence over Opel
14/09/200919:59The Russian government will not exert a direct influence on the operations of Opel following the acquisition of a stake by state-owned Sberbank, the bank said on Monday.
Russia Gives Up Mass Army
14/09/200919:43Leading Russian military expert Vitaly Shlykov spoke during one of the sessions of the Valdai Discussion Club last week about the sweeping reform of the country’s armed forces, which begins in December and will cut the number of tanks from 20,000 to 2,000 and reduce the number or reservists to just 100,000. The reform, which Shlykov described as nothing short of a revolution, will significantly affect the Kremlin’s approach to the composition of and future cuts to the country’s military arsenal.
India keen to expand nuclear cooperation with Russia
14/09/200919:15India is ready to cooperate with Russia not only on completing the Kudankulam nuclear power plant but on the construction of a new station, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Monday.
Winners of the 66th Venice Film Festival
14/09/200919:03The 66th Venice Film Festival in Italy announced its winners; the Best Actress award went to Kseniya Rappoport from Russia.
Germany will hold parliamentary elections on Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and the center-left Social Democrats, whose candidate is Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, being the main challengers.
In an hour-long speech at the UN Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said that the "smell of sulfur" had been replaced by "hope" in a sign of approval for U.S. President Barack Obama's policies, Latin American media said.
A video posted on the Internet allegedly showing a U.S. diplomat in Moscow having sex is an example of the continuing Cold War mentality in Russia, a State Department spokesman said.
Russian military officials will attend exercises of Japan's ground self-defense forces for the first time in the history of relations between the two countries
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