Topic: Russia

Iran says to switch on Bushehr plant soon

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday his country's Russian-built nuclear power plant at Bushehr would be switched on soon after years of delays, but gave no date.Ali Akbar Salehi spoke at the start of talks with Russian Foreign Minister ...

Ahmadinejad welcomes Russia nuclear proposal

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday welcomed Russia's latest proposals for restarting talks on the Islamic republic's controversial atomic programme that were broken off in January."Iran welcomes Russia's step-by-step proposal and is ready to make suggestions to cooperate," he said in a ...

Russian official in Tehran for nuclear talks

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 ...

Iran's "nuclear partner" Russia seeks to revive global talks

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Russia will look to revive nuclear talks between Iran and the world's biggest economic and military powers this week, hoping its special relationship with Tehran can help jolt back to life negotiations that some analysts consider "dead in the ...

US may pull tactical nukes out of Europe: report

The United States is in talks with NATO to remove US tactical nuclear weapons from Europe, in a push toward a nuclear-weapons-free world and to cut costs, a Japanese newspaper said Friday.Washington is talking with other NATO member nations about the withdrawal ...

US, Russia nuclear arsenal data released

The United States has 30 percent more deployed long-range ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads than former Cold War foe Russia, according to new data released Wednesday by the State Department.Both countries are required to report key figures from their nuclear weapons arsenals ...

Gates arrives in Moscow amid Kremlin rift over Libya

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 ...

N. Korea ready to discuss uranium programme

North Korea has told a Russian envoy that it is willing to discuss its uranium enrichment programme and a suspension of nuclear tests if six-party disarmament talks resume, state media said Tuesday."(North Korea) expressed its stand that it can go out to ...

Iran confirms unloading fuel from Bushehr reactor

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran confirmed on Saturday it was having to remove nuclear fuel from the reactor of its only nuclear power station, signaling more problems for the Russian-built Bushehr plant after decades of delay.Iran's nuclear envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh told the ...

U.S. and Russia cap "reset" in ties with START treaty

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 ...