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Russia's government pledged a mortgage buyout Wednesday and announced more aid for major airlines and other companies beyond an existing $200 billion financial rescue package, Russian news agencies reported.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russian service industries ranging from banking and telecommunications to supermarkets shrank in November by the most on record as the global financial crisis deepened.
A Fresh Start? Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Russia's new ambassador to the United States, has assumed his post at a critical time in U.S.-Russian relations and at a point when presidential transitions are underway in both Moscow and Washington.
Scores of nations began signing a treaty banning cluster bombs Wednesday in a move that supporters hope will shame the U.S., Russia and China and other non-signers into abandoning weapons blamed for maiming and killing civilians.
(By PAUL AMES, Associated Press Writer) NATO foreign ministers on Wednesday affirmed their support for U.S. plans to install anti-missile defenses in Europe despite Russia's strong opposition. The ministers said the planned U.S. defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic will make a "substantial contribution" to protecting allies from the threat of long-range ballistic missiles. Russia has ...
The NATO alliance should be cautious in welcoming Russia as a sometime partner, and avoid overt military cooperation with fighting forces that invaded a much smaller neighbor last summer, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
Mon, Dec 1, 2008 (10:09 a.m.) Russia's military is planning to upgrade its missiles to allow them to evade American weapons in space and penetrate any prospective missile shield, a Russian general said Monday.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russian service industries ranging from banking and telecommunications to supermarkets shrank in November by the most on record as the global financial crisis deepened, VTB Bank Europe’s gauge of industry performance showed.
Moscow regional prosecutors said an ice arena manager and a hockey club director were negligent in the death of rising Russian star Alexei Cherepanov.
NATO foreign ministers on Wednesday confirmed their support for U.S. plans to install anti-missile defenses in Europe despite Russia's strong opposition.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia said that a NATO decision to rule out near-term membership for Ukraine and Georgia shows that the U.S.-led military alliance is shying away from interfering with the Russian sphere of influence.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia said that a NATO decision to rule out near-term membership for Ukraine and Georgia shows that the U.S.-led military alliance is shying away from interfering with the Russian sphere of influence.
Russia's government pledged a mortgage buyout Wednesday and announced more aid for major airlines and other companies beyond an existing $200 billion financial rescue package, Russian news agencies reported.
The U.S. agreed to support a modest reopening of NATO's dialogue with Russia, despite Moscow's continuing occupation of Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia territories.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- MDM Bank and Ursa Bank will merge to form Russia’s second-largest private lender as a fall in retail deposits and soaring bad loans added to evidence that the financial crisis is accelerating in the country.
(AP:BELGRADE, Serbia) Serbia said Wednesday it is unlikely to sell its oil monopoly to Russia because of Moscow's refusal to guarantee to build a strategic pipeline through the Balkan country.
Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved legislation to lower tar and nicotine content in cigarettes and to place large health warnings on the packs.
MOSCOW (AFP)--Russia said Wednesday it was preparing fresh measures to boost its economy as President Dmitry Medvedev urged the government to try to take advantage of an anticipated fall in prices.
(RTTNews) - NATO chief expressed the alliance's preparedness to discuss with Moscow a future security structure for Europe if Russian President Dmitry Medvedev clarifies his plans.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia will refuse to sell surplus carbon-emissions credits to other nations, removing from the market the biggest single pool of licenses to pollute under the Kyoto global-warming treaty, a government official said.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia, holder of the world’s biggest surplus of carbon-dioxide credits under the Kyoto Protocol global-warming treaty, won’t sell them to other nations, an official said at the United Nations climate talks.
