MOSCOW (dpa) – US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday for an official visit that would include talks on the US military transit center located near the capital Bishkek.
Kyrgyzstan's government has said it wants US forces (...)
Moscow (dpa) – Vladimir Vorobyev knows that protesting against Vladimir Putin is not the safest thing to do in Russia.
But Vorobyev, a historian and father of two, said he has no other choice after Sunday's presidential election, which was (...)
ST PETERSBURG (dpa): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would nominate current President Dmitry Medvedev to be his premier if he wins the presidential poll at the weekend.
Putin – who made the promise at a meeting with (...)
Moscow (dpa) – Russia on Tuesday said it would not take part in the forthcoming meeting of Western and Arab nations pushing for regime change in Syria but did want to see the United Nations step in to resolve the humanitarian situation in the (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel on Monday blamed Iran for two attacks that targeted its diplomatic missions in India and Georgia.
“In recent months we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in several countries, including (...)
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian forces intensified their assault on restive areas on Monday, killing at least 21 people, activists said, while Russia said it would study an Arab League proposal to send a peacekeeping force to the violence-racked (...)
Moscow (dpa) – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday sharply rejected western criticism of Russia's veto on a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria, saying it was “bordering on hysteria.”
The international community, led by the (...)
Moscow (dpa) – Russia has invited representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition to joint talks in Moscow, Foreign Ministry officials said on Monday.
“We have approached the Syrian government and to all opposition groups to send (...)
Moscow (dpa) – Russia on Tuesday reaffirmed its opposition to an international embargo on oil exports from Iran and said it would block a United Nations Security Council resolution to that effect.
“We believe that sanctions relative to Iran have (...)
Moscow (dpa) – Russia's government is planning to transport 22,000 tons of nuclear waste across the country along a route passing dozens of cities and towns, the spokesman of a local environmental group said on Monday.
Russia's national atomic (...)
Moscow (dpa) – Ankara has approved the construction of the South Stream natural gas pipeline through Turkish territorial waters in the Black Sea, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Putin made the announcement in Moscow at a (...)
Moscow (dpa) – Armed men broke into a Russian factory to steal platinum ingots worth 5.7 million dollars, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday.
The robbers held night shift workers at gunpoint in a fiberglass plant in the southern city of (...)