MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Head of the Russian National Centre for Reducing Nuclear Threat announced that Russian aviation inspectors will conduct two observation flights over the territory of the United States and one over the territory of Italy.
ULAN BATOR, February 16. /TASS/. The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, Sergey Naryshkin, says he sees no obstacles for developing cooperation between Russia and Mongolia, calling the country Moscow's strategic partner.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Saturday, urging full implementation of this week's Minsk agreements on ending fighting in Ukraine, including a mid night ceasefire.
MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. Joint projects between Moscow, Seoul and Pyongyang, including the development of rail, gas and electric power infrastructure, will benefit Russia, South and North Korea and strengthen peace on the Korean peninsula, Russia's ambassador to Seoul Alexander Timonin said on Monday.
BERLIN, Feb 8, 2015 (AFP) - A summit between France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine is being planned for Wednesday in Minsk in an effort to halt escalating violence in eastern Ukraine, Berlin said.
Berlin (dpa) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Russia-Ukraine talks produced "discernible progress" over the withdrawal of heavy weapons from September's ceasefire demarcation line in eastern Ukraine.
Tehran, YJC. Iranian ambassador to Moscow has stated the exchange of currency between Tehran and Moscow is now possible thanks to the cooperation of two banks.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) —Assistant to the US president and Deputy National Security Advisor claims that injecting more weapons is not the way to end the Ukrainian crisis.
DONETSK, Ukraine, Feb 2, 2015 (AFP) - The pro-Russian separatist leader in eastern Ukraine's rebel hub of Donetsk vowed Monday to mobilise 100,000 fighters for their latest offensive against Kiev forces.
Tehran, YJC. Senior statesman says cooperation between Tehran, and Moscow has helped the Syrian nation gain the upper hand in its battle against enemies.
MOSCOW, January 30 (Sputnik) — A former economic advisor to the Reagan administration believes that Western banks and governments are a threat to Greek sovereignty and to its peoples' standard of living, and that only by re-aligning itself with Russia can Greece stave off these 'marauders.'
WASHINGTON, January 30 /TASS/. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the International Security Conference in Munich early in February, the U.S. State Department's spokesperson Jen Psaki told journalists at a briefing on Friday.
MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. Russia regards the inter-Syrian meeting in
Moscow as the expression of Syrians' confidence in Russia, irrespective of
their political views, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on
Wednesday at a meeting with the participants in inter-Syrian consultations
in Moscow.
MOSCOW, Jan 27, 2015 (AFP) - The UN said Monday that a rocket attack that killed 30 people in a city in eastern Ukraine deliberately targeted civilians, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned Western calls to rein in a pro-Moscow insurgency.
MOSCOW, Jan 26, 2015 (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow is working to promote contacts between Kiev and the pro-Russian separatists in the next few days.
TEL-AVIV, January 26. /TASS/. Maintaining good relations with Russia is one of the top priorities for Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, said in an exclusive interview with TASS ahead of his official visit to Moscow on Monday.
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Jan 25, 2015 (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly rocket attack in Ukraine's government-held port of Mariupol on Saturday and denounced "provocative statements" made by pro-Russian separatist fighters.