The Russian and American Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama believe it is now possible to negotiate a concrete date for the signing of a new strategic arms reduction treaty. In a telephone conversation on Saturday, they discussed the schedule of future contacts and cooperation on pressing international issues. →
The Russian and American delegations met in Geneva on Tuesday for a regular round of talks to fine-tune a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START. →
US President Barack Obama says America will stick to its promise to withdraw its combat troops from Iraq by the end of August, and all the remaining US forces by the end of next year. →
Differences over the Barack Obama plan to reduce the U.S nuclear arsenal, as part of the American new defense strategy has split his administration into two opposing camps. The first group led by vice president Joseph Biden, supports Obama's plan to make the issue of the reduction of nuclear arms the linchpin of the U.S foreign policy. →
The US President Barack Obama has ordered the draft of the nation’s new nuclear doctrine to be revised over differences in his Administration, reports the London-based weekly The Observer. According to the periodical, the draft fails to reflect the US President’s aspiration for securing a nuclear-free world and putting paid to the Cold War mentality. →
In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama agreed to instruct their negotiators in Geneva to intensify work towards a successor to the 1991 Soviet-American START 1 strategic arms reduction treaty, which expired on the 5 th of December. →
Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama have pledged to intensify efforts to sign a new strategic arms reduction treaty at an early date. The two leaders made this pledge as they discussed the matter in a telephone conversation on Wednesday. →
Beijing has signaled its intense displeasure at US President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama in Washington on Thursday - a sit-down that took place despite China's vociferous opposition to what it called a serious violation of basic international norms. →
Thursday brought unpleasant news for U.S. President Barack Obama. The first disappointing piece of news was people’s reaction to President Obama’s recent address to the nation, in which he summed up the results of his first year in office and outlined his further plans. →
What should be done to salvage Obama’s presidency? Well-known American politologist and Director of the Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes is trying to answer this question. →
President Barack Obama will hold a meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile for many years, a White House spokesman said. A day before, China stated that once President Obama meets the Dalai Lama, US-China relations may be harmed. →
The U.S is ready to discuss European security with Russia and to work with it hand in hand on the fulfillment of a number of agreements, which have been reached in principle. However, Washington is ready to do this within the framework of the existing institutions, the U.S. →
American President Barack Obama has submitted a draft federal budget for 2011 to Congress for approval. Some people may wonder why such a hurry when 2010 has barely begun. →
The US 2011 fiscal year's expenditure will make up the country's all-time record of 3.8 trillion dollars. President Barack Obama has submitted the draft budget to Congress, saying in a comment that the budget's basic objective is to gradually start economizing and to fight unemployment. →
Anti-globalists will launch a campaign against U.S. military bases in Latin America. The decision was passed at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Thursday. The campaign will begin with protests against the U.S. military presence in Colombia and Panama. Participants in the forum criticized the Nobel Committee for giving the U.S. →
Members of the Russian-American group, created in the summer of last year at the suggestion of the Russian and U.S Presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama have agreed on the need for a joint fight against corruption and stereotypes. They held their first joint meeting in Washington on Wednesday. →
President Obama has delivered his first State of the Union address which received extensive coverage worldwide. Naturally, most of the points made focused on domestic problems, first of all, measures to steer the country out of the financial and economic crunch. →
US president Barack Obama delivered his first State-of-the-Union address in Washington DC on Wednesday. Speaking about the forthcoming state of the Union address of Barack Obama in one of our programs two days ago, we tried to forecast what the US President was going to talk about. Our forecast turned out to be mainly correct. →
Russia and the US are set to put the finishing touches to a new START Treaty within the next few weeks. An agreement to get the treaty signed at an early date was reached during a telephone conversation on Wednesday between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama. →