31 October 2005 -- Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said today Russia and the United States will soon for the first time begin sharing information on transfers of man-portable antiaircraft missiles outside their respective national borders.
(RFE/RL) 31 October 2005 -- Chechen President Alu Alkhanov today said there have been about 200 abductions in Chechnya this year.
The Venus express probe being readied for launch in Kazakhstan (epa) 31 October 2005 -- The Russian Space Agency announced today that Venus Express, the European Space Agency's first mission to explore Earth's closes neighbor, will be launched on 9 November 9 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
Vladimir Putin (file photo) (CTK) 30 October 2005 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin today said any militants considering a raid like the one earlier this month in the southern city of Nalchik would face "elimination."
(RFE/RL) 29 October 2005 -- Kabardino-Balkaria's former president, Valerii Kokov, has died at age 64.
Russia's foreign minister has cast doubt on the results of a report documenting large-scale corruption in the UN's oil-for-food humanitarian program in Iraq.
Paul Volcker speaks to the media after delivering his report (epa) An independent inquiry has found Russian politicians and companies heavily involved in abuses of the UN's oil-for-food program in Iraq. The final report of the commission chaired by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker says more than 2,000 companies worldwide took part in surcharges and kickbacks that benefited Saddam Hussein's regime. But prominent among them were Russian firms, which won the majority of oil and humanitarian contracts with Iraq during the time of sanctions.
28 October 2005 -- Russian space officials have lost contact with a rocket launched yesterday that was carrying eight satellites.
28 October 2005 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that documents from the UN special commission probing the Iraqi oil-for-food program were falsified.
(RFE/RL) 28 October 2005 -- The independent committee that has concluded its investigation into abuses in the United Nations' oil-for-food program with Iraq has pledged to cooperate with any criminal prosecutor in any country who might want to pursue charges in connection with the probe.
28 October 2005 -- The Vatican's foreign minister is in Moscow today for talks with Russian government officials and leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church aimed at expanding ties between the Holy See and Moscow.
28 October 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Russian Deputy Prosecutor-General Nikolai Shepel said today his office is investigating allegations that militants who staged attacks earlier this month in the southern city of Nalchik planned to seize passenger airplanes and use them in further terrorist attacks.
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