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Russia criticizes US, NATO over Afghan drugs
(AP)
 AP - Russia's envoy to NATO has sharply criticized the alliance's shift away from fighting drug trafficking in Afghanistan, saying the resulting surge in heroin smuggling is endangering Russia's national security.
03/12/2010 - 05:25 AM
Putin urges expanded Russia-India ties
(AFP)
 AFP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in India to sign a clutch of multibillion-dollar arms deals, said Friday it was time for the old Cold War allies to boost trade beyond the limited scope of defence.
03/12/2010 - 05:07 AM
Putin in India for visit dominated by arms deals
(AFP)
 AFP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in India Friday where he is slated to sign a series of multibillion-dollar arms deals with Moscow's old Cold War ally.
03/11/2010 - 06:07 PM
Medvedev democracy talk faces test in Russian regions
(Reuters)
Reuters - Maxim Petlin heads a prominent political party in a major Russian province straddling the Ural mountains, but he will not be on the ballot for regional parliamentary elections on Sunday.
03/11/2010 - 12:01 PM
Jordan king, Medvedev discuss Mideast
(AFP)
 AFP - King Abdullah II of Jordan and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held talks in Moscow Thursday aimed at finding ways to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians to the Middle East.
03/11/2010 - 10:11 AM
Russian drivers forced to act as shield
(AP)
AP - Russian traffic police are under investigation for ordering civilian motorists to park their cars across a highway — and remain inside — to block a fleeing criminal suspect, prosecutors said Wednesday.
03/10/2010 - 12:27 PM
Russia urges Sweden to extradite Chechen "bandits"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Sweden Tuesday to extradite two men it says are Chechen separatists and accuses of involvement in killings and kidnappings.
03/09/2010 - 01:41 PM
New US-Russia nuclear treaty possible in next weeks: Lavrov
(AFP)
 AFP - There is a chance that a new US-Russian treaty on nuclear arms cuts will be ready in the next two or three weeks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
03/09/2010 - 09:56 AM
Russia sees new nuclear arms treaty by April
(AP)
AP - A new treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals could be signed within two or three weeks, Russian news agencies cited Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying Tuesday.
03/09/2010 - 08:51 AM
Severstal posts $162 mln net loss in Q4
(AP)
AP - Russia's largest steelmaker Severstal on Tuesday posted a $162 million net loss in the fourth quarter of 2009 but signalled confidence in the year ahead.
03/09/2010 - 03:57 AM
Anti-Putin Movement Gains Confidence in Russia
(Time.com)
Time.com - A wave of anti-Putin protests across Russia offers a glimmer of hope to those working to end his rule. But the Russian Prime Minister is not going anywhere soon
03/07/2010 - 09:25 AM
Russian forces kill eight, find train attack clues
(AFP)
 AFP - Russian forces have killed eight suspected rebels and arrested 10 others in a raid that also found clues on two bomb attacks on trains in 2007 and 2009, the FSB security service said Saturday.
03/06/2010 - 04:19 PM
Russia says Islamist rebel leader killed
(Reuters)
Reuters - Russia's Federal Security Service chief on Saturday confirmed the death of a prominent Islamist rebel who he accused of plotting a bomb attack on a Moscow-to-St Petersburg train that killed 26 people last year.
03/06/2010 - 03:01 PM
Iran gives Russia pilots two months to leave: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Iran has given Russian commercial pilots working in the Islamic Republic two months to leave the country as it has no need for them, Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani was quoted as saying on Saturday.
03/06/2010 - 05:41 AM
New Ukraine leader soothes Russia, no gas deals
(Reuters)
Reuters - Ukraine's new president Viktor Yanukovich soothed Moscow Friday by suggesting he would reverse key policies of his pro-Western predecessor, but won no public promise that Russia will lower Kiev's onerous gas bills.
03/05/2010 - 01:50 PM
Fatal car crash has Russians seething
(AP)
AP - A fatal car crash in downtown Moscow has exposed growing public anger at officials who seem to live above the law, as they flout the rules of the road and endanger the lives of ordinary Russians.
03/05/2010 - 11:42 AM
Ukraine and Russia vow 'new page' in ties
(AFP)
 AFP - Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych vowed Friday to end years of acrimony with giant neighbour Russia, as he paid his first visit to Moscow since taking office last week.
03/05/2010 - 11:24 AM
Gorbachev lashes Kremlin for failure on democratic reform
(AFP)
 AFP - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Friday accused the current Russian authorities of backsliding on democracy and rolling back the process of reform he began in the 1980s with perestroika.
03/05/2010 - 09:38 AM
Liberals rap Kremlin as Stalin is worshipped
(Reuters)
Reuters - Russian communists paid homage on Friday to Soviet leader Josef Stalin, while liberals accused the Kremlin of conniving to whitewash the dictator.
03/05/2010 - 05:32 AM
Ukraine's president heads to Moscow to talk gas
(AP)
 AP - Ukraine's new president is meeting with his Russian counterpart to talk gas.
03/05/2010 - 03:57 AM
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