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  • Clashes kill eight rebels, police officer in Caucasus: report

    AFP – 1 hr 12 mins ago

    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.

  • Russian channel cuts Putin scene on 'South Park'

    AP – Fri Jul 10, 9:33 am ET

    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.

  • Russia operator denies plan to rename Lenin station

    AFP – Fri Jul 10, 3:27 am ET

    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.

  • Confusion over Leningrad station reflects rifts

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 2:50 pm ET

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

  • U.S. seeks "full partnership" with Russia on missiles

    Reuters – Thu Jul 9, 2:27 pm ET

    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.

  • Russia: US-Russian summit was 'groundbreaking'

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 3:53 am ET

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

  • U.S. says Russia may continue with unilateral WTO bid

    Reuters – Wed Jul 8, 2:36 pm ET

    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.

  • Obama talks spur rights call by Russian activists

    Reuters – Wed Jul 8, 1:45 pm ET

    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.

  • Style over substance in US-Russia 'reset'

    AFP – Wed Jul 8, 10:18 am ET

    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.

  • Obama concludes 'reset' mission to Russia

    AFP – Wed Jul 8, 3:37 am ET

    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.

  • Obama leaves Moscow for G8 summit in Italy

    Reuters – Wed Jul 8, 1:22 am ET

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

  • Russia warns US over missile shield

    AP – Tue Jul 7, 5:30 pm ET

    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.

  • Putin loses nothing in Russia-US summit

    AP – Tue Jul 7, 4:52 pm ET

    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.

  • US wants strong but democratic Russia: Obama

    AFP – Tue Jul 7, 4:02 pm ET

    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.

  • Obama asks Russians to forge partnership with US

    AP – Tue Jul 7, 3:52 pm ET

    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."

  • U.S. calls on Russia to find U.S. reporter's killers

    Reuters – Tue Jul 7, 3:36 pm ET

    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.

  • Obamamania? Not in Russia for presidential visit

    Reuters – Tue Jul 7, 3:03 pm ET

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

  • US presses Russia for justice in journalist's murder

    AFP – Tue Jul 7, 2:22 pm ET

    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.

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