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Russia could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program, President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.
Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.
Russia's foreign minister said Thursday he was surprised by Poland's call for more U.S. troops on Polish soil in response to Moscow's assertiveness, a news agency reported.
A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader.
A suspect in the killing of a human rights lawyer and a journalist has confessed to the crime, his lawyer said Friday.
Tens of thousands of people took part in Moscow street rallies and concerts Wednesday on a new national holiday that the Kremlin tried to portray as a celebration of Russia's ethnic diversity.
Georgia's foreign minister renounced his Russian citizenship Wednesday, formally cutting ties with Moscow that were formed in the Soviet era.
Consumer prices in Russia stayed flat in October for a third straight month of zero inflation, the federal statistics agency said Tuesday, opening the door for further interest rates cuts by the central bank.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged the European Union on Monday to lend Ukraine at least $1 billion to help it pay for natural gas supplies from Russia and avoid another disruption of flows to Europe.
Britain's visiting foreign secretary pressed Russia on Monday to turn over the main suspect in the 2006 killing of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died from radioactive polonium poisoning in a London hospital.
A Russian heavy-lift military cargo plane crashed on takeoff Sunday in Siberia, killing all 11 crew members on board, officials said.
Moscow plans to buy a French amphibious assault ship, the first such purchase from a NATO country, as the Kremlin seeks to reaffirm Russia's global reach, a Russian news agency reported Saturday.
President Dmitry Medvedev told Russians Friday that there can be no justification for the Soviet government's crimes against its own people, lamenting millions of deaths and "maimed destinies" in some of the strongest criticism of the Communist era to come from the Kremlin since Vladimir Putin came to power a decade ago.
Russia is planning extensive research to support its claim to a broad swath of energy-rich territory beneath the Arctic Sea, a top official of the nation's icebreaker fleet said Friday.
From Russia's North Caucasus to the streets of Moscow, those who find themselves at odds with authorities can wind up as targets of deadly violence. So increasingly, some are working quietly or have abandoned their efforts altogether.
President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday called new arms and energy deals between Russia and Ecuador just a beginning as Moscow strives to deepen ties in Latin America.
AIDS experts urged Russian officials on Wednesday to scrap their abstinence-based strategy for curbing the spread of HIV, saying the country's fast-growing epidemic could be entering a dangerous new phase.
Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.
A lawyer for Chechnya's strongman president said Tuesday that a criminal libel case carrying possible prison time has been opened against one of Russia's most prominent human rights activists, news agencies reported.
A Moscow subway station is the newest focus of Russia's bitter dispute over the legacy of Josef Stalin, whose outsize shadow still haunts the nation more than 50 years after his death.
Russia and the United States are scrambling to address disagreements over a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with a little over a month left until the existing agreement between the Cold War adversaries expires.
TNK-BP, Russia's third-largest oil company, said Tuesday its third quarter net profit rose 34 percent compared with the previous three months due to higher crude prices and gains on the sale of a unit.
A prominent opposition and rights activist in Russia's southern province of Ingushetia was shot dead Sunday in at least the third killing of a human rights defender in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia will further delay the introduction of a higher export duty on raw timber that has deeoply worried neighboring Finland.
Russia's president on Saturday defended recent local elections that drew fraud allegations, inspired an opposition walkout of parliament and strengthened the Kremlin's grip on power.
U.S. officials hopeful for new nuclear treaty with RussiaAfter months of negotiations with Russia, Obama administration officials are hopeful about a breakthrough -- possibly this week -- that would enable the two sides to sign a successor to their most extensive nuclear weapons treaty before it expires Dec. 5.
The seven giants of the UralsIn the northern Urals, where these leave behind vegetation to become velvety hills that blend into the horizon, seven giants majestically rise.
Obama and the U.S. Strategy of Buying Time Making sense of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy at this moment is difficult.
Midweek Herald - The Berlin Wall 25 years BEFORE it fellA very interesting account of the Berlin Wall from the point of view of a British gentleman and his time in Berlin.
Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland - TelegraphRussia simulates nuclear attack on Poland The armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised an amphibious landing on the country's coast.
Europe stoops to conquer the uzbeksThe worsening Afghan war has brought some good news for Uzbekistan. On Tuesday, the European Union announced it was lifting a four-year old arms embargo against Uzbekistan.
Another Murder in Russia's Secret War A few weeks ago, I visited the home of Maksharip Aushev -- the 43-year-old scion of a wealthy and politically influential family in Ingushetia -- on the night of his youngest son's wedding.
The Tenacity Question by David BrooksThey are not worried about his policy choices. Their concerns are more fundamental. They are worried about his determination. They do not know if he possesses the obstinacy that guided Lincoln and Churchill, and which must guide all war presidents to some degree.
Gay Marriage Is An OxymoronThere is simply no evidence that the primary purpose of marriage has evolved to include gays and lesbians. First, the Bible clearly and unequivocally condemns homosexual acts. Secondly, there is no scientific evidence to confirm homosexual activity as a normal behavior.
Napoleon's Dynamite - Or Why The President should 'dither'PARIS — He's in there somewhere, under the gilded dome of Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, is entombed by six coffins in what has to be the most spectacular sarcophagus in all the City of Light.
Putin's Game: Why Russia Won't Cooperate on IranAfter years of stalemate, negotiations over Iran's controversial nuclear development program seemed to progress last week when an Iranian delegation in Vienna agreed to the export and modification of its low-enriched uranium. The resulting optimism did not last.
India, China and Russia agree to enhance cooperationExternal Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov prior to the trilateral meeting in Bangalore on Tuesday.
"We should be terrified": Top Scientists' 350 ppm CO2 by 2050 Too Ambitious, Say MPsFaced with Dr Fankhauser's 350 ppm CO2 proposal MP Barry Gardiner, asked the 120 legislators present whether they believed limiting CO2 concentration to 350 ppm by 2050 was practicable. Only two said yes.
Obama at Odds With His Own Vision for the World by Michael BaroneLast year, Obama told Berliners that we and they are "heirs to a struggle for freedom." This year, his administration has been busy trying to appease dictatorial and authoritarian regimes. So maybe he was wise to skip a return appearance in Berlin.
Russian Banks Count Pigs, Lingerie as Collateral From DebtorsWhen Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev's OAO National Reserve Bank seized collateral offered against a loan from a cash-strapped borrower, a health quarantine was slapped on the security: 40,450 pigs.
For Europe, US Is the Country That Cries WolfPARIS - Philip Gordon, the American assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, visited his European clients earlier this month in order to ask for more European cooperation.
How Do You Say "Hillary's Gaffe" In Russian?All things considered, the gaffe was the result either A or B: A) The Obama administration is made of pig-headed, tone-deaf people, who don't expect other cultures to have nuances — and so they don't bother to consult with experts.
Alex Ovechkin adamant about the Olympics [.pdf file]The NHL's reluctance to commit to Sochi also has roots in the league's simmering dispute with the Russian Continental Hockey League, or KHL, over player signings, transfer fees and control of the potentially lucrative European market.
Works and Days » ObamanoiaDid Obama really think he would be elected, hailed as the anti-war laureate, simply summon home the troops from the "quagmire" in Iraq, and then fly over to Kabul to do a Victory Column speech?).
What Missile Defense?Missile defense will be strategically useless against the nuclear threats from Iran -- or anywhere else. Barack Obama's administration has characterized its new missile defense plan as a more judicious alternative to George W.
Iran reserves right to up uranium enrichment above 5% purity even with Russia involvedIran will not renounce its right to enrich uranium to levels above five percent purity even if it strikes a deal for a third party to carry it out, the head of its Atomic Energy Organisation said in comments published on Thursday.
Bardot autograph pays for fan's operationVladimir Komarov always cherished his signed photograph of Brigitte Bardot, but has had to cash it in to pay for an operation.
Iran Says It's Ready to Ship Uranium Stocks to Russia (Update2) - Bloomberg.comOct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Iran said it is ready to accept a deal under which Russia would supply it with enriched uranium for a research reactor, improving the prospects for broader talks aimed at allaying Western concerns that the Persian Gulf country seeks an atomic bomb.
'Miracle' baby brings hope in Muslim RussiaA "miracle" baby has brought a kind of mystical hope to people in Russia's mostly Muslim southern fringe who are increasingly desperate in the face of Islamist violence.
Enriching Iran's Uranium: Obama Gives Iran's Nuke Program a Helping HandWashington Post columnist David Ignatius passes on a report in Nucleonics Week that Iran's uranium enrichment may be stuck at 3.5% due to impurities.
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