Russia would be happy to sign the new START Treaty with the US on reducing offensive strategic weapons in Kiev, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on Ukraine's proposal after negotiations with his Ukrainian counterpart Konstantin Grishchenko on Tuesday in Moscow. Sergey Lavrov expressed the following ideas. "We... →
The British Ambassador to Georgia, Denis Keefe, is outraged over a bogus news report on a Russian invasion of Georgia shown by the Imedi TV company on 13 March. The diplomat said neither he nor the British government have something to do with the scandalous footage. Addressing the journalists in Tbilisi on Tuesday, Mr. Keefe said the hoax would... →
Kiev will continue to pursue its current policy on NATO, putting accent on partnership, instead of membership, said Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Konstantin Eliseev at the NATO- Ukraine Commission session. According to NATO official representative James Appathurai, the meeting was devoted to one issue only... →
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hopes that experts will inform him on the progress in Russia-US talks on a new START treaty before his meeting with the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in Moscow on March 18. Without giving any details, Mr. Lavrov said the sides are already very close to signing the deal but the exact date has... →
The EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia is thoroughly monitoring security and stability near the border between South Ossetia and Abkhazia after a provocative Imedi program.“Our monitors have witnessed the anxiety and concern of the local population for their security and safety caused by this incident," the statement of the... →
Trade turnover between Russia and Belarus began to be rapidly restored after last year's recession caused by the global economic crisis. It grew by 17 percent in January-February 2010. Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin stated this on Tuesday during bilateral negotiations in Brest. The prime minister believes that... →
On March 17th UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon will arrive in Moscow on a three-day visit. At first, a few words about Ban Ki Moon. He has been holding a top-level post since October of 2006. Before 2006 Ban Ki Moon represented South Korea in the United Nations for many years and also occupied the post of the minister of foreign affairs... →
The US missile shield plans were not discussed either in the parliament or in the government of Bulgaria, the Speaker of the country’s Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, said during a meeting with her Russian counterpart Boris Gryzlov in Moscow. Tsacheva said Bulgaria was mentioned in relation to the US missile plans in the mass media after NATO... →
Russia would be happy to sign the new START Treaty with the US on reducing offensive strategic weapons in Kiev, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on Ukraine's proposal after negotiations with his Ukrainian counterpart Konstantin Grishchenko on Tuesday in Moscow. Sergey Lavrov expressed the following ideas. →
The British Ambassador to Georgia, Denis Keefe, is outraged over a bogus news report on a Russian invasion of Georgia shown by the Imedi TV company on 13 March. The diplomat said neither he nor the British government have something to do with the scandalous footage. →
Kiev will continue to pursue its current policy on NATO, putting accent on partnership, instead of membership, said Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Konstantin Eliseev at the NATO- Ukraine Commission session. According to NATO official representative James Appathurai, the meeting was devoted to one issue only - priorities of the new Ukraine’s government. →
Russia ’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hopes that experts will inform him on the progress in Russia-US talks →
The EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia is thoroughly monitoring security and stability near the border between South Ossetia and Abkhazia after a provocative Imedi program. “Our monitors have witnessed the anxiety and concern of the local population for their security and safety caused by this incident," the statement of the Mission says. →
Trade turnover between Russia and Belarus began to be rapidly restored after last year's recession caused by the global economic crisis. It grew by 17 percent in January-February 2010. Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin stated this on Tuesday during bilateral negotiations in Brest. →
On March 17th UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon will arrive in Moscow on a three-day visit. At first, a few words about Ban Ki Moon. He has been holding a top-level post since October of 2006. →
The scandal around the bogus report broadcast by Georgia's TV channel last Saturday continues. New statements emerge saying that the government and personally president Mikhail Saakashvili were behind the preparation of the fake news. →
The US missile shield plans were not discussed either in the parliament or in the government of Bulgaria, the Speaker of the country’s Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, said during a meeting with her Russian counterpart Boris Gryzlov in Moscow. →
Somali pirates have freed the Singapore-operated Theresa chemical tanker and its 28 North Korean crew, ITAR-TASS news agency reports citing local maritime officials. A ransom of about $3.5 million has been paid. The tanker was hijacked last November 180 nautical miles north-west of the Seychelles. The captain of the tanker later died of wounds he had received during the attack. →
The Palestinian authorities rule out resumption of peace talks with Israel until it gives up on building settlements on the occupied territories. Statements to that effect were made by the PLO's Executive Committee Secretary Yasser Abd Rabbo and the Palestinian administration's press secretary Nabil Abu Rudeina. →
The French ambassador to Georgia, Eric Fournier, has sent an open letter to the Director General of the Georgian Imedi TV channel asking to explain why his name was mentioned in a bogus news report on a Russian invasion of Georgia the company showed on 13 March. →
The activity of an extremist religious group, Tablighi Jamaat, has been curbed in southern Siberia. More than 20 Tablighi Jamaat activists, among them foreigners who violated the migration law, have been arrested, a source in the Russian Federal Security Service told reporters on Tuesday. →
Ukraine ’s coffers are empty, the economic slump continues, the country’s public debt has tripled and there’s still no budget for 2010, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said in his address to the nation, posted on the government’s web site. →
Many chances that presented themselves to the world after the end of the "Cold War" and collapse of the Soviet Union were lost. Such is the opinion of the last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock. →
The Russian and Turkmen Foreign Ministries have okayed their bilateral partnership program that embraces all sectors of interaction, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told an Ashgabat new conference following his talks with Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov earlier on Tuesday. →
Countries of the euro zone have agreed an economic rescue plan for Greece, Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the 16-member euro zone’s group, told reporters after a meeting of the EU finance ministers in Brussels on Monday evening. They will meet again on Tuesday to map out the plan’s implementation schedule for the current year. →
A new generation of Russian and American politicians should revive the spirit of disarmament created by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 after they called for a world free of nuclear arms at their meeting Reykjavik, Jack Matlock, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia said while presenting his new book in Washington. →
Russia ’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, on a planned working visit. His talks with the Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow will focus on ways of boosting economic ties and closer partnership in promoting security in Central Asia. The gas industry dominates bilateral economic cooperation. →
The interim government of Somalia signed a cease fire with the Islamic movement of Akhlu Sunna Val Dzhamaa in Addis Ababa. The preceding declaration was signed in Nairobi on June 21 st under the aegis of the UN. The mediating parties of the peace settlement were the US, the EU, the African Union and the Arab League. →
