Cubans waited in long lines to step on board the Russian destroyer Admiral Chabanenko, which sailed into Havana Bay on Friday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

The first Soviet nuclear powered submarine, the K-3, later named Leninsky Komsomol, was delivered to the Soviet Navy December 17 1958.

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia only sells defensive weapons to Iran, in strict compliance with the international nonproliferation regime, Russia's state-run arms exporter said on Monday. (Russian mobile surface-to-air missile systems - Image gallery) "Only defensive systems are

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Belarus has turned to Russia for a 100 billion-ruble ($3.5 billion) loan in exchange for payment in rubles in bilateral trade, a Russian deputy finance minister said on Monday. "There is a letter saying

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is to hold another test launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile in two days time, a source in the Russian defense industry said on Monday. "The test launch of the latest intercontinental

VLADIVOSTOK, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Riot police brutally clamped down on protests against increases in car import duties in Russia's Pacific port of Vladivostok with at least 60 people detained at the weekend. Protests have swept cities across Russia,

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will see an almost 30% year-on-year-increase in exports of uranium products and uranium-enrichment services in 2008, state-controlled nuclear power company Atomenergoprom said on Monday. Atomenergoprom holding company unites enterprises of the country's civil

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 215 service personnel in Russia's Armed Forces have committed suicide since the start of the year, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said that 427 Russian service personnel

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's upper house of parliament ratified an agreement on Monday with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a natural gas pipeline along the Caspian coast. The pipeline, which is part of plans to modernize and

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Drug police have seized almost 20 kilograms (44 lbs) of Afghan heroin in Moscow in an operation that was conducted in November and December, a senior federal drug control official said Monday. Vasily Rogozin,

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian sappers have completed an operation to clear an airport near Nis, Serbia's second-largest city, of unexploded ordnance left after the 1999 NATO bombing, a Russian emergencies ministry spokesman said on Monday. During the

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Belarus could recognize the independence of two disputed Georgian regions in exchange for moderate prices for Russian natural gas for next year, a Russian business daily said on Monday. In a move condemned by

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will increase its annual financial aid to the world's most impoverished nations from $220 million to $400 million-$500 million by 2011, a deputy finance minister said on Monday. Russia annually channeled $50 million-$60

Top Chinese oil firm PetroChina plans to build 12.6 million barrels of crude oil storage tanks in the north-west of China

Oil prices rose to above $47 a barrel Monday in Asia as investors anticipated OPEC will announce a large production cut at its meeting this week

Trinidad and Tobago, eyeing the possibility of joining an emerging international gas cartel, plans to open bidding in 2009 for offshore natural gas acreage

It may reach $119.1 per metric ton from January 1, a finance ministry official announced

Oil steadied bolstered by expectations that OPEC will agree its largest supply cut ever

Indian sources reported that due to financial meltdown Rosneft is not able to arrange funds to buy a stake in Imperial Energy