MOSCOW, Sept 01, 2014 (AFP) - Moscow and Kiev representatives will meet in Minsk Monday after Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the stakes in the Ukraine conflict by calling for statehood to be discussed for the restive east of the former Soviet state.
MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko together with the top leaders of the European Union and the Eurasian Customs Union are to gather in Minsk on Tuesday to discuss the Ukrainian crisis and hold a number of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the event.
LONDON, August 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's ambassador in Britain Alexander Yakovenko was summoned to the Foreign Office on Friday for a meeting with Acting Permanent Under-Secretary Matthew Rycroft, the Russian embassy has told ITAR-TASS.
ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow region, August 13 (Itar-Tass) -- Kalashnikov Concern and Russian Weapon Company have suspended, not terminated, their contract for firearms supplies to the United States, Rosoboronexport arms exporting company Deputy Director-General Igor Sevastyanov said on Wednesday.
BERLIN, August 13 (Itar-Tass) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called to continue negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite Western sanctions on Russia to settle crisis in Ukraine, the Saechsische Zeitung newspaper said on Wednesday.
"The Northern Territories are an inherent part of Japan's territory, and we cannot accept the move," a senior ministry official also said, a day after Russia announced its military began military exercises on the Russia-held, Japan-claimed islands.
LONDON (Reuters) - NATO is not prepared for the threat of a Russian attack on one of its members, British lawmakers said on Thursday, calling for more equipment and troops to be positioned in the Baltic States, which, they said, were particularly vulnerable.
The Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia is outraged by shameless lies and double standards of politicians over developments in Ukraine, the head of the board, the country's Supreme Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin said in a sermon marking the holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Monday.
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined calls on Sunday for Russia to be stripped of the World Cup in 2018 following the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine.
The downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine is likely to be a turning point in the country's conflict. But which way it turns depends mainly on who carried out the attack and how convincingly it can be proved to the world.
Russia on Thursday said it would not tolerate blackmail from the United States after Washington imposed sanctions on its energy giants Rosneft and OA Novatek over Moscow's actions in Ukraine.
TEHRAN, YJC. Reactor number one of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran has reached its full capacity after a scheduled fuel reload and planned maintenance, an affiliated company of the Russian contractor of the facility says.
Ukraine's new president has enlisted support from the leaders of Germany and France for a call on Sunday to Vladimir Putin as a ceasefire deadline looms and after pro-Russian rebels released more European monitors.
Lithuania’s president says that Russia, in an effort to maintain influence over territories that were once part of the Soviet Union, has set out to make the Baltic states “unreliable partners” for NATO and the European Union.
Tehran, YJC. Zarif says ISIS failure in Syria and its critical situations in Iraq indicate Iran’s true grit, enabling Russia to put more support behind Iran in the country’s nuclear talks.