TEHRAN, March 29 - French President Emmanuel Macron will still visit Russia in May as it remains important to maintain “frank” talks with Moscow despite accusations of Russian involvement in a nerve agent attack in Britain, said French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
TEHRAN, March 29 - UK Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed in a phone call on Wednesday to work together to counter Russia, the British minister’s office said.
TEHRAN, March 29 - Austria is prepared, if asked, to act as a broker between Russia and the West in the spat over the Salisbury attack, the nation’s Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, March 28 - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami plans to travel to Moscow next week to take part in an international security conference.
TEHRAN, March 26 - At least 64 people were killed by a fire which engulfed a busy shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Russian investigators said on Monday, and some of the dead were children.
TEHRAN, March 26 - The Russian ambassadors to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were summoned to the foreign ministries of those countries on Monday, Russian news agencies reported.
TEHRAN, March 26 - China accused the United States of arrogance on Monday after the U.S. delegation rejected a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution brought by Beijing that it said sought to glorify Chinese President Xi Jinping's "win-win" agenda.
TEHRAN, March 25 - Russia has denied as "idle gossip" recent accusations by NATO's top commander in Afghanistan that Moscow had been backing and providing weapons to the Taliban militant group.
TEHRAN, March 25 - President Donald Trump is considering expelling a group of Russian diplomats from the United States in response to the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, according to a report.
TEHRAN, March 25 - A senior Iranian lawmaker said the Islamic Republic should strengthen relations with Russia and China to counter tougher US policies expected after President Donald Trump's appointment of John Bolton as national security adviser.
TEHRAN, March 23 - A convoy of vehicles left the British Embassy in Moscow on Friday ahead of a Russian deadline for 23 diplomats to leave the country, a Reuters camera operator said.
TEHRAN, March 23 - Russia will cut its defense budget to less than 3 percent of gross domestic product within the next five years, RIA news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.
TEHRAN, March 22 - The Kremlin on Thursday said British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had made "disgusting" comments about President Vladimir Putin seeking to exploit Russia's World Cup in the way Adolf Hitler had used the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
TEHRAN, March 21 - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a decision by the British ambassador to skip a Russian briefing on the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain showed London was unwilling to listen to Moscow's side of the story.
TEHRAN, March 21 - Russia's foreign minister threatened Wednesday to retaliate against Britain for "anti-Russian measures", with the two countries at loggerheads over the poisoning of a spy in southern England.
TEHRAN, March 21 - Russian state nuclear company Rosatom plans to launch the Akkuyu nuclear plant in Turkey in 2023, it told Reuters, adding that the talks with potential new investors are not expected to affect the construction timetable.
TEHRAN, March 21 - Twenty three expelled Russian diplomats and their families left London for Moscow on Tuesday as Britain and Russia traded recriminations over a nerve agent attack in England that has plunged relations into their worst crisis since the Cold War.
TEHRAN, March 20 - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that 65 percent of territory in Syria's eastern Ghouta had been "liberated from terrorists," the RIA news agency reported.
TEHRAN, March 19 - Germany's government is rejecting the idea that former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder should face sanctions over his links to Russian business and to President Vladimir Putin.
TEHRAN, March 19 - Leaders of Asian and Latin American states have extended congratulations to Vladimir Putin over his landslide re-election as Russian president, while Western leaders are still tight-lipped amid thorny Moscow-West relations.