Russia`s foreign minister said Friday the country`s opposition to Kosovo independence without the consent of Serbia is based on respect for international law, not on Moscow`s own interests.
A man suspected by Britain of involvement in the murder of exiled former spy Alexander Litvinenko refused to stand trial over the affair in a third country in an interview published Saturday.
Naming former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair as the Middle East Quartet`s special envoy was a poor choice, a leading Russian expert said Friday.
Russia`s UN Ambassador called the UN Kosovo plan a "closed chapter" as the draft resolution on Kosovo`s future was withdrawn from UN Security Council debate Friday over Russia`s veto threat.
The risks of an accidental nuclear war have increased since the Cold War as Russia`s early warning capability has deteriorated, a former U.S. defense official said.
Russia said Thursday it was expelling four British diplomats in retaliation for a similar move by Britain, as a confrontation mounted between Moscow and London over the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
"I am resigning from the post of Nagorno Karabakh president with a sense of fulfilled duty," NKR President Arkady Gukasyan announced today while voting at a polling station in Stepanakert. He also added that, undoubtedly, he did not manage to do everything.
Nokia launched a service on Thursday which it said would cut the time a GPS-enabled cellphone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts, opening new opportunities for location-based online services.
China`s sizzling economy expanded by a stunning 11.9 percent in the second quarter from a year ago, the government said Thursday, and announced it would take new steps to cool the boom.
An explosion in a steam pipeline in Midtown Manhattan sparked panic among evening rush hour commuters on Wednesday, rekindling memories of the September 11 attacks among jittery New Yorkers.
Russia is planning "appropriate" measures in response to Britain`s announcement of the expulsion of four Russian diplomats from London, Russia`s foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Serbia`s accession to the EU must not be predicated on the resolution of the Kosovo problem, the country`s ambassador to Russia said Tuesday.
The chief U.S. nuclear envoy met Tuesday with his North Korean counterpart ahead of the first six-nation talks on Pyongyang`s nuclear program since the communist nation shut down its sole operating nuclear reactor.
Russia intends to sign documents on its accession to the World Trade Organization with Cambodia in the near future, a government official said Tuesday.
Dozens of Shiite villagers in the north were massacred by Sunni extremists, two officials said Tuesday, while a car bomb exploded across the street from the Iranian Embassy in the heart of Baghdad and killed four civilians.
Turkey`s ruling party is likely to win a majority of seats in parliamentary elections Sunday that will highlight the deepening divide between the Islamic-oriented government and opponents who fear religion is encroaching on secular traditions.
Food safety fears and broad economic concerns keep China in U.S. headlines, but the epochal rise of America`s greatest potential rival has barely rated a blip so far in the 2008 presidential campaign.
A 2,400-year-old golden mask that once belonged to a Thracian king was unearthed in a timber-lined tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists said Monday.
Russia condemned as "Russophobic" the planned expulsion of four diplomats from Britain over Moscow`s refusal to extradite a key suspect in the murder of former security officer Alexander Litvinenko in London.
Veto-wielding Moscow will reject a new resolution of the UN Security Council, which proposes granting Kosovo independence without Serbia`s consent, the Russian envoy to the UN said.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown`s new government ordered the expulsion of four Russian diplomats Monday over the Kremlin`s refusal to extradite the key suspect in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB officer - Britain`s first use of the sanction in more than 10 years.
A growing rift between Russia and Britain over the London murder of a former Russian agent prompted warnings Thursday of a full scale diplomatic conflict, complete with tit-for-tat expulsions.
More than 1,300 trucks are stuck in queues on both sides of the Russian-Latvian border, a spokesman for the Latvian border guards said Thursday.
Russia`s agriculture minister said Thursday that higher bread prices were being driven by the world situation, and that he saw no need to restrict grain exports.
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Thursday launched a U.S.-requested panel to investigate whether the European Union (EU) has upheld a prior verdict against its banana import rules.