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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.
BRUSSELS, Belgium - NATO foreign ministers today affirmed their support for U.S. plans to install anti-missile defenses in Europe despite Russia's strong opposition. The...
The United States wants Russia to explain in detail its proposal for a new European security pact and believes it is too early to hold a summit on the issue, a senior US official said Monday.
MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A gold deposit estimated at more than 100 tons has been found in Siberia, the Russian National Geological Prospecting Co. announced Tuesday.
The Russian navy said Wednesday one of its warships would sail this week through Panama Canal - a symbolic projection of Moscow's power to the U.S. zone of influence. It will be the first time since World War II that a Soviet or Russian military vessel crosses the canal, Russian navy spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo said. The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko will arrive Friday at the Rodman naval base ...
BRUSSELS (AFP)--The European Union was to resume key partnership talks with Russia Tuesday, aimed at boosting economic and diplomatic ties, three months after they were frozen in the wake of the Georgia conflict.
By By ANNE GEARAN -- The United States has softened tough lines against what it views as Russia's illegitimate drive for influence over former Soviet vassals, although Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is urging European states to show their disapproval of Moscow's invasion of Georgia. U.S. compromises were on display Tuesday as Rice made her final speech to NATO allies. Having backed away ...
Moscow regional prosecutors say an ice arena manager and a hockey club director were negligent in the death of rising Russian star Alexei Cherepanov.
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev says the transparency of the nation's court system must be improved.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Vnesheconombank, Russia’s state-run development bank, approved a subordinated credit of 10.2 billion rubles ($365 million) to Alfa Bank, the country’s biggest non- state bank.
KIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Ukraine has ceased importing electricity from Russia, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Energy Ministry 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.
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.
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.
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.
