China should work more closely with Russia on security to counter Japan, a state-run Chinese newspaper said Thursday after Moscow and Beijing signed a huge natural gas deal.
TEHRAN, YJC. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says cooperation between Iran and Russia will contribute to the establishment of stability and security in the region.
Pro-Russia protesters disrupted a public meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin Wednesday, calling for the arrest of "Nazis" in Ukraine.
China and Russia still disagree over pricing a multi-billion-dollar gas deal despite years of negotiations, a senior Beijing official said Thursday, ahead of a visit by Vladimir Putin when a contract signature had been expected.
Pro-Russian rebels were preparing to hold an independence vote in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, a move slammed as "illegal" by the US but which could pull the ex-Soviet republic apart.
Heavily armed pro-Russian gunmen on Monday seized another town in east Ukraine, storming the town hall in Kostyantynivka and setting up barricades, an AFP journalist saw.
The United States and the European Union were Monday readying fresh sanctions against Russia amid rising tensions over the kidnapping of international observers by pro-Russian militants in Ukraine.
The US and Europe are set to slap new sanctions on Russia as early as Monday over the crisis in Ukraine where tensions spiked over the kidnapping of a team of international observers.
Clearly there are double standards between the official Iranian stance and the Iranian stance echoed in the Media towards the Ukrainian Crisis. PhD student in Poltical Sciences at University of Saint Joseph
Russia and the European Union will hold consultations on problems linked with Russia's ban on pork imports from Europe, head of Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary control authority (Rosselkhoznadzor) Sergei Dankvert told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
The United States government said on Monday it will decide "in days" on additional sanctions if Russia does not take steps to implement an agreement to ease tensions in Ukraine.
Ukraine's prime minister voiced outrage at reports that masked men in east Ukraine's main city handed out leaflets demanding Jews register or be expelled, NBC News reported Saturday.
Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov is heading for Geneva to take part in a quadripartite meeting on Ukraine, a delegation source told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine is on the verge of civil war, the Kremlin said Wednesday, after the Kiev government sent in troops against pro-Moscow separatists in the east of the country.