A large fire which broke out in a construction market outside Moscow on Monday was successfully put out, a Russian Emergencies Ministry spokesman said.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Vlad Grinkevich) - Russia and the United States ended their two-day talks on poultry supplies, held behind closed doors, on Thursday. They have coordinated their stands but have not reached an agreement.
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, did not go as expected. It became clear a week before it ended on December 18 that a new global agreement to combat climate change beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expires, will not be signed.