MOSCOW: US President Barack Obama pledged Sunday to send "non-lethal" aid to the Syrian rebels while peace envoy Kofi Annan piled diplomatic pressure on the regime by seeking the backing of its ally Russia.
The announcement was the most overt (...)
MOSCOW: Russia's opposition vowed to wage a campaign of civil disobedience Tuesday after police detained hundreds in rallies against Vladimir Putin's crushing victory in polls.
"Tens of thousands will be coming out on the streets of Moscow and (...)
MOSCOW: Russia on Monday said its secret services had thwarted a plot hatched in a Ukrainian port city by men with links to Chechnya to assassinate Vladimir Putin after next weekend's presidential election.
Less than a week before polls in which (...)
BAKU: The stakes could not have been higher for the presidents of Russia and Iran as they huddled behind closed doors here to address their biggest-ever rift in relations.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was slowly losing the international (...)