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Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed an amendment to the defence law, paving the way for deployment of the Russian military anywhere in the world, the Kremlin said Monday. The law empowers the Russian armed forces to take part in ant...
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed an amendment to the defence law, paving the way for deployment of the Russian military anywhere in the world, the Kremlin said Monday. The law empowers the Russian armed forces to take part in ant...
(RTTNews) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Monday signed into law a bill allowing the government to expand the use of its armed forces abroad in certain emergency situations.
Abstract: Russia still considers the United States its "principal adversary." Moscow relies on its nuclear weapons to compensate for its inferiority in conventional power relative to the U.S., NATO, and China.
Authorities in breakaway South Ossetia say they have detained four Georgian teenagers accused of illegally crossing the boundary into the separatist republic.
Europe was transformed in 1989, but the events of that year are seen differently in Europe, the U.S. and Russia.
Willy Brandt was uncomfortable with the idea, Günter Grass -- who in those days spoke from the summit of Mount Morality -- considered it an abomination, and Gerhard Schröder, maneuvering for political position as a Social Democratic underling, eventually voted against it.
By Timothy Garton Ash In the autumn of 1989, the term 'velvet revolution' was coined to describe a peaceful, theatrical, negotiated regime change in a small Central European state that no longer exists. So far as I have been able to establish, the phrase was first used by Western journalists and subsequently taken up by Václav Havel and other Czech and Slovak opposition leaders. This seductive ...
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Phillip Gordon has defended the Obama administration's new approach to Russia and denied that the United States has sacrificed its allies in Central and Eastern Europe in the process of "resetting" U.S.-Russian relations.
Some Gulf Coast residents hunkered down at home and in shelters Monday while others ventured outside to watch the approach of a rare late-season tropical storm that brought the potential for high winds, flooding and up to 8 inches of rain in some places.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- JSW Steel Ltd. , India’s third-biggest producer, began making steel reinforcing bars at its plant in Georgia, the first step in an investment plan that may include oil exploration and hydropower.
Gulf Coast residents hunkered down at home and in shelters Monday as a rare late-season tropical storm headed their way, bringing with it the potential for high winds, flooding and up to 8 inches of rain in some places.
Russian military intelligence believes Georgia might again attack South Ossetia, the pro-Moscow region over which the two countries fought a war last year, a powerful spy chief said on Thursday.
MOSCOW — When Russian businessman Yevgeny Ostrovsky decided to name his kebab joint Anti-Soviet Shashlik, he thought of it as black humor.
Florida, Alabama are 1-2 in BCS rankings ... Elson to be replaced at Western Kentucky ... Mickelson gains on Woods in world rankings ... Safin wins opening match in his last event ... Sports news from United Press International.
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