Topic: Moscow
Russia and Iran on Wednesday said a new Russian plan had a real chance of solving the standoff over the Iranian nuclear drive, despite the failure of past initiatives to end a decade of deadlock.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomed his Iranian ...
A senior Russian official, National Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, arrived on Monday for talks with Iranian officials on the country's nuclear programme, state news agency IRNA reported.Patrushev is set to hold two meetings with his Iranian counterpart Saeed Jalili and also ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Moscow on Tuesday for talks on Libya in the middle of the first major public spat between Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.Gates will not meet Putin but will see ...
MUNICH (Reuters) - The United States and Russia formally inaugurated their new START nuclear arms treaty on Saturday, capping two years of work to "reset" the sometimes strained ties between the former Cold War enemies.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister told his North Korean counterpart on Monday that Moscow was deeply concerned over Pyongyang's uranium enrichment efforts and condemned an attack on a South Korean island, the ministry said.Meeting with the reclusive North's Foreign Minister Pak ...
US President Barack Obama said Wednesday he was "confident" that a landmark nuclear arms treaty with Russia would be voted on by US lawmakers before the Christmas break.Obama said he thought the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which he wants ratified ...
Perhaps most pernicious of all, however, is the quid pro quo that many suspect the White House has agreed to: To date, the White House has refused to publicly release the negotiating record for the treaty. This is why the White House ...
William Hague is to make his first visit to Russia since becoming Foreign Secretary in an attempt to rebuild relations with Moscow, it has been announced. "Britain's relations with Russia have been strained by a number of serious issues on which we ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Russian nuclear energy support is intended to encourage Iran to play by global arms rules, a top Moscow senator said on Sunday, arguing Tehran's hardline Islamists responded best to diplomatic "chess," not "rugby."Describing the Islamic republic as a difficult ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American knowledge of Russia's nuclear capabilities will dwindle if a new nuclear arms treaty with Moscow is not ratified, the chief U.S. negotiator argued as a Senate panel on Friday scheduled a vote on the document.The new START treaty ...