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He said in an interview with the Handelsblatt German newspaper that a lot depends on the consolidated position of Moscow and Berlin, although Russia is not an EU member-state and does not form part of the Eurozone.
Medvedev does not feel that now that Vladimir Putin has again been elected Russian President, Russian-German relations have somewhat cooled. Vladimir Putin and Chancellor Angela Merkel are on good terms, which enables them to settle any problems, Medvedev said.
Voice of Russia, IF
After several weeks of heavy fighting, Syrian government forces are close to completing an operation to flush out rebel fighters from the strategic city of Al-Qusayr, some 30 kilometers from Homs.
North Korea has launched another short-range missile, Yonhap news agency reported referring to the South Korea’s Defense Ministry.
Clashes erupted between Salafists and police on Sunday in the central city of Kairouan, where security forces prevented Tunisia's main Salafist group from holding their banned annual congress.
Ryan Christopher Fogle, third secretary of the US Embassy in Moscow, who was earlier caught red-handed when trying to recruit a Russian intelligence agent, has left the country, NTV channel said airing a footage of the CIA spy passing through security at Sheremetyevo airport.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told "Fox News Sunday" that President Obama learned about the Internal Revenue Service targeting Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status only after it had come out in the media.
An Arab League committee on Syria will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday ahead of an international peace conference on ending the country's civil war, the bloc's deputy leader said on Sunday.
After several weeks of heavy fighting, Syrian government forces are close to completing an operation to flush out rebel fighters from the strategic city of Al-Qusayr, some 30 kilometers from Homs.
Before the end of this year, Peru is likely to sign contracts to procure 24 Russian-made Mi-17 attack helicopters and hire Russian companies to build a facility to service this fleet.
According to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan is seeking talks with North Korea about the fate of the Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korean services in the 1970s and 80s for using them as spying coaches.
On the night from May 18 to May 19th hundreds of thousands of people all across Russia - from Vladivostok in the Far East to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea joined the Museum Night international cultural event marking the International Museum Day. Only in Moscow the Museum Night attracted more than 1 million people.
Russia's Supreme Court said Sunday it would hear an appeal against the second conviction of jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Liberalization of liquefied natural gas exports is a must, said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The European Union has postponed plans to introduce separate labelling for products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Sunday.
The importance of the Russia-ASEAN business forum, which will be held on the sidelines of the 17th St Petersburg International Economic Forum, is to attract investment into Russia and also to make Russian companies aware of money-making opportunities that exist in ASEAN countries, believes executive director of the Russia-ASEAN Business Council, Viktor Tarusin.
Cyprus Finance Ministry has removed restrictions on financial transactions of another six foreign banks. The list features a branch of the Ukrainian Privatbank.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
In a harsh rebuttal to George Soros, the President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner Sinn accused the speculator of “playing with fire” and stated that “Germany will not accept Eurobonds” in spite of the pressure from the investing community.
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Wolf Richter talks about the ECB's desperation, the money printing bonanza of the world's central banks and about a French finance minister who is barking at the wrong tree. Wolf Richter is the editor of , entrepreneur, private equity specialist and the author of "Big Like: Cascade Into An Odyssey".
A 93-year old Hans Lipschis who has been recently arrested in Germany over alleged war crimes served as a guard at the notorious Selection Ramp at Auschwitz death camp, Germany’s Welt am Sontag wrote citing court papers.
Russia has successfully pulled off a month-long bio ark mission in space, its first exercise of this kind in 17 years. The Bion-M1 craft successfully touched down near Orenburg on the Ural River Sunday bringing back a number of international experiments with mice, lizards, fishes, mussels, vegetating plants, seeds, bacterial spores and bacterial colonies.
Eurovision 2013 is over. Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won the contest with her “Only Teardrops” song. Russia’s Dina Garipova is number five. Azerbaijan’s Farid Mammadov was second and Zlata Ognevich of Ukraine secured the third result.
US spy Ryan Fogle flies away from Russia
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