World - Russia

MOSCOW (AFP) - Clashes killed eight rebel fighters in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus, news agencies quoted Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov as saying, while a police officer died in a separate incident.

MOSCOW - A Russian TV channel cut a segment of the ribald U.S. cartoon comedy "South Park" that appeared to mock Vladimir Putin, a spokesman said Friday.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's state rail monopoly has denied making a decision to remove the name of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin from one of Moscow's main train stations.

MOSCOW - Revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin may be losing another round in the fight over Russia's history.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is seeking "full partnership" with Moscow to bridge ballistic missile-defense differences that have strained U.S.-Russian ties for years, the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said Thursday.

MOSCOW - A high-level Russian diplomat says the recent U.S.-Russia summit was "groundbreaking" for relations between the old Cold War adversaries.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that Russia had sent signals that it might still pursue a unilateral bid to join the WTO, but Moscow denied such plans saying it would join only together with two neighbors.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rights groups and opposition parties called on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday to step up the fight against corruption and build a freer society after they met U.S. President Barack Obama this week.

MOSCOW (AFP) - It was style over substance this week as President Barack Obama eloquently urged a fresh start in troubled relations with Russia but otherwise strayed little from a well-worn US policy script, experts said.

MOSCOW (AFP) - US President Barack Obama concluded his trip to Moscow, having met Russian leaders and signed a handful of security deals in his mission to heal badly strained relations with Moscow.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama left Moscow on Wednesday aboard Air Force One after two days of talks with Russian leaders.

MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister warned Tuesday that the U.S. would jeopardize progress toward a new treaty with Russia on nuclear arms cuts if it decides to create a global missile defense system.

MOSCOW - Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev can both claim success at a summit meant to put badly strained ties on track, but a third figure also seems to have emerged a winner: Vladimir Putin.

MOSCOW (AFP) - President Barack Obama said Tuesday the United States wanted a strong, prosperous but also democratic Russia, as he set out his vision of the US relationship with its former Cold-War era foe.

MOSCOW - Working to turn Russia from antagonist to ally, President Barack Obama asked the Russian people Tuesday to "forge a lasting partnership" with the U.S., but he acknowledged after talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that on divisive issues there won't be "a meeting of the minds anytime soon."

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top U.S. official used a visit by President Barack Obama on Tuesday to call on Russia to bring to justice those behind the 2004 murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov, the editor of the Russian version of Forbes.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - For once, the adoring crowds were absent as Barack Obama visited Russia this week.

MOSCOW (AFP) - A senior US diplomat called on Russia Tuesday to step up efforts to bring to justice the killers of US journalist Paul Klebnikov, ahead of the fifth anniversary of his murder in Moscow.