Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak is satisfied with the results of his first personal working meeting with his US counterpart Ernest Moniz. Novak shared his impressions with the media at the end of the main working day of his visit to Washington.
The Russia-NATO partnership remains a key element of security in the Euro-Atlantic region, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday, opening a ministerial of
the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) in which RF Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is taking part.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the shelling of the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus on Thursday, which killed one person and wounded
nine others.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton discussed on Friday evening in Geneva ways to achieve a mutually acceptable agreement between the Sextet and Iran, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
It is not allowed to happen in Russia, or in Kazakhstan—but in the United States, children as young as 12 are allowed to toil on tobacco farms, whether it’s driving Dad’s tractor or picking leaves for R.J. Reynolds. Tobacco farming poses threats to their health thanks to heavy pesticide use and the possibility of acute nicotine poisoning, as Gabriel Thompson vividly describes in his special investigative report in this issue.
Russia on Saturday finally handed over a refurbished ex-Soviet aircraft carrier to India after a refit that overran by five years and went vastly over budget, damaging ties between the countries.
Warning that the U.S. dollar is on the brink of collapse, a State Duma lawmaker has submitted legislation to ban dollar deposits and transactions at Russian banks.
Participants in the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia called for
strengthening stability in the region, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.
Iranian Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar urged Russia to release the Greenpeace activists it detained during their protest against its oil drilling operations in the Arctic, Tehran Times daily reported on Saturday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Italian counterpart Emma Bonino to discuss the situation in Syria. Italy initiated the conversation, the
Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Tuesday.
Russia on Monday described as "outrageous" a threat by powerful rebel groups in Syria against those who attend peace talks on the conflict backed by Moscow and Washington.
Tehran, YJC. Lawmaker says that for Iran to take over the nuclear power plant of Bushehr does not mean that Russia’s commitment on the power plant is over.
Alexei Pushkov, the head of the State Duma committee on international affairs, believes US President Barack Obama should clearly state his position on the issue of Syria.