On August 19 Russian Roskosmos and the European Space Agency signed an agreement on cooperation in the project «Phobos-soil» and «Ekzomars».
August 18. The World Air Show MAKS-2009 has recently opened in Zhukovsky (Russia). 711 companies from 34 countries worldwide will take part in the show.
Today, on the initiative of the Lithuanian party, a telephone conversation between the presidents of Lithuania and Russia took place.
On August 17 the "Arctis Sea" freighter which disappeared about two weeks ago is found in the Atlantic Ocean, near the islands of Cape Verde.
June 16. NATO is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the seizure of the Maltese "
Today the meeting of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel took place in Sochi.
President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will have a meeting on Friday devoted to further economic cooperation between Russia and Germany during the crisis.
Russia and Abkhazia signed an agreement «On the assistance of Russia to Abkhazia in the socio-economic development".
Today the first working meeting of the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO Dmitry Rogozin is taking place in NATO’s headquarters in Brussels.
Just before the meeting with the new NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, which is to be held on August 11, Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said that the Secretary General has already shown himself as a modern, decisive man, as evidenced by his first speeches.