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Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Russia will add more than 30 ballistic missiles and three nuclear submarines next year as the government pushes ahead with a military upgrade during the worst economic slump in a decade.
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Russia will add more than 30 ballistic missiles and three nuclear submarines next year as the government pushes ahead with a military upgrade during the worst economic slump in a decade.
Brussels - The European Union on Thursday called for the release of four Georgian minors held in the Russian-controlled breakaway province of South Ossetia. The European Union expresses its deep concern with respect to the recent detentions of Georg...
Russia and Georgia greed to meet again in January after a "difficult" round of talks on Wednesday that was partly dominated by the issue of Georgians recently detained in Moscow-backed South Ossetia, diplomats said.
In his annual state of the nation speech Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev painted his vision for the country's future, saying that "modernization" was the key to its "very survival."
Geneva - Russia and Georgia have agreed to hold a new round of talks on January 28 next year, aimed at reducing tensions following their five-day war in August 2008. Representatives of the two sides met for the eight time in Geneva on Wednesday for w...
GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- U.N. officials involved in talks on the Russian-Georgian conflict said overall security in the region was stable, despite concerns about recent detentions.
Russia and Georgia embark on fresh talks in Geneva Wednesday set to be dominated by the arrest of Georgians in South Ossetia, the breakaway Georgian region at the centre of the war between the two countries.
Tallinn - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the incumbent president of the small Baltic state of Estonia, became the latest name Thursday to enter the race for the job of European Council President. The Baltic News Service reported that Prime Minister Andrus Ans...
Georgia on Wednesday accused Russian authorities of illegally detaining five Georgian fishermen and demanded their immediate release.
(RTTNews) - In a far-sighted as well as reality-based state of the nation address, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for profound reform of the economy, shifting its focus from Soviet-era energy and heavy industry toward investments in information technology, telecommunications and space.
Paris - Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua, convicted last month of influence peddling in an illicit arms sale to Angola, said Thursday that ex-president Jacques Chirac had known of and approved the deal. In December 1995, Jacques Chirac...
Munich- After giving replacement breasts made from pigskin to six women in Germany, doctors in Munich detailed the new method Thursday, saying it results in fewer scars for masectomy patients. Senior doctor Darius Dian said the procedure used a derm...
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for the return of Russia to great power status through a comprehensive modernisation in his address to the nation speech Thursday. It was time for the first ever modernisation in the history of the...
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- German organic baby food maker HiPP GmbH & Co. Vertrieb KG began production of fruit concentrate at a plant in Georgia near the border with the separatist South Ossetia region, the focus of a war with Russia last year.
Warsaw - Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski branded joint Russia and Belarus army exercises near his country's border this September disquieting , in a radio interview Thursday. Taking part in the exercises, known as Zapad-2009 (West-2009), w...
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