Upcoming visit of the Russian President to China will become this year's major political event in Russian-Chinese relations and its outcome will be an important step toward a closer bilateral partnership, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says in an interview published by China Daily Tuesday.
All necessary emergency situation units were formed in the Russian Republic of Crimea, advanced training courses were provided for emergency workers and reequipping of technicians was launched, Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov said in this Russian Far East city on Tuesday.
Europe will have trouble weaning itself off Russian natural gas, analysts say, as its faces declining production at home and Asian competition for supplies.
Russian Central Election Commission's representatives, who monitored presidential elections in Afghanistan on April 5, highly evaluated efforts of the Afghan authorities concerning security provision during the polls.
Japan dispatched fighter jets more often over the past 12 months than at any time since the Cold War ended, according to government figures, with the sorties mostly aimed at chasing away Chinese and Russian aircraft.
Pro-Russian activists who seised the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed Monday the creation of a sovereign "people's republic" independent of Kiev rule.
The United States confirmed on Friday reports that a convoy of armoured vehicles including three T-64 Russian tanks moved into Ukraine from Russia and are now in the hands of the rebels.
Russian President and Commander-in-Chief of the country's armed forces Vladimir Putin on Saturday decided to hold a surprise comprehensive inspection of combat readiness of the entire Central Military District's personnel, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said.
BEIRUT: Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes since Thursday night in northwestern and western Syria, a Syrian military source and state TV said on Friday. The source said the 18 air strikes were in the provinces of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo and were against Islamic State targets.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. State Secretary John Kerry were planned to meet in The Hague, a Russian Foreign Ministry source confirmed to Itar-Tass on Saturday. "Such a meeting is planned," he said.
VIENNA, November 23 (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to have a phone conversation on Monday with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday during his meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
MOSCOW, September 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday called NATO's permanent plans in favour of enlarging to the east and closely advancing to the Russian borders "absolutely provocative".
MOSCOW, September 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he hopes the crisis in Ukraine's southeastern regions will be resolved but added that the goodwill and delicate work of all sides to preserve peace will be required.
SEOUL - Russian Ambassador to South Korea Alexander Timonin has expressed his country's opposition to the possible deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea, according to an interview with the Russian envoy published by a Seoul daily on Wednesday.
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin received North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's special envoy, a high-ranking member of the ruling Workers' Party, Choe Ryong Hae, Russian president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday
Ukraine will have to buy natural gas from Russia even at $500 per 1,000 cubic meters should Moscow set such a price, Ukrainian parliament-appointed prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said on Ukrainian television.