Russia

...to restrictions on its nuclear program, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told German weekly magazine Der Spiegel in an interview. Russia's ties with Iran, which include oil and arms, give it rare influence with the Islamic Republic, making...

In this article: Dmitry Medvedev, Iran, Uranium, Der Spiegel, United Nations Security Council, and Barack Obama

...ties with Iran, a regional power close to Russia's vulnerable southern flank, and it is building the country's first nuclear power plant. Russia signed a contract two years ago to sell S-300 surface-to-air defense missiles to Iran, but...

In this article: Dmitry Medvedev, Iran, Uranium, Der Spiegel, UN, S-300, Vladimir Putin, and Barack Obama

Russia Still Dragging Its Feet on Climate Change A sign reading "Gas!" in Novy Urengoi, just below the Arctic Circle in far northern Russia Russia doesn't seem to care two bits about global warming, and it's not hard to see why. Most...

In this article: Climate change, Global warming, Lars Rasmussen, World Trade Organization, Copenhagen, and Dmitri Medvedev

Mr Kudrin's meeting with investors in the UK capital also coincides with a push to thaw frosty ties between the UK and Russia. Russia is seeking to win back investors to help fund a recovery from a precipitous economic contraction of...

In this article: Alexei Kudrin, Moscow, Beneficiary, Alfa Group, Renaissance Capital, and Telenor

...could provide it by sending more than the six American troops it now has based in Poland. The minister said that need became clear when Russia and Belarus conducted a military exercise with hundreds of tanks near Poland's border last...

In this article: Poland, Sergei Lavrov, Radek Sikorski, U.S., Moscow, NATO, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Europe

...these obstinate republics as they did last year," he said. "We do not rule out such a development," said Shlyakhturov, who controls Russia's biggest spy agency with agents across the globe and thousands of special forces troops inside...

In this article: Georgia, South Ossetia, Mikheil Saakashvili, NATO, Abkhazia, Moscow, and Leon Trotsky

...led to consumers cutting spending and to currency devaluations, hurting CCH's business, particularly in developing countries such as Russia and Nigeria, which account for about two thirds of CCH's sales. Coca-Cola Hellenic (CCH) said...

In this article: Coca-Cola Hellenic, Coca-Cola Co, Callus, Recession, Africa, Europe, Athens, and Reuters

...with such influence over a military superpower cannot be considered weak. In fact, the issue is not Russia's strength per se, but whether Russia intelligently concentrates and applies it. The new Russia has transcended its Soviet...

In this article: United States, European Union, Central Asia, Vladimir Putin, Eastern Europe, Beneficiary, Brent Scowcroft, and Afghanistan

...took part in Moscow street rallies and concerts Wednesday on a new national holiday that the Kremlin tried to portray as a celebration of Russia's ethnic diversity. The Moscow rallies were peaceful, police said, but a nationalist march of a...

In this article: Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev, Nationalists, The Kremlin, Xenophobia, Buddhist, National Unity Day, and Bolsheviks

MOSCOW (AP) - Britain's visiting foreign secretary pressed Russia on Monday to turn over the main suspect in the 2006 killing of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died from radioactive polonium poisoning in a London...

In this article: David Miliband, Sergey Lavrov, Alexander Litvinenko, Britain, Polonium, Uranium, and London