- 16:21 10/07/2006
Russia expects the Iraqi government to take urgent measures to bring to justice the murderers of five Russian diplomats killed in Baghdad in June, Russia's foreign minister said Monday. 
- 14:55 04/07/2006
Russia will not lose its nerve and change its position on Iraq after five Russian diplomats were murdered in the country, a Kremlin aide said Tuesday.
- 12:55 30/06/2006
Moscow wants the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq to help it track down those behind the killing of five Russian diplomats, a Foreign Ministry source said Friday.
- 18:51 28/06/2006
"We have addressed the corresponding Iraqi services and the leaders of the international coalition led by the U.S., which is still in Iraq, to take urgent measures to identify the criminals, detain them and bring them to justice," Sergei Lavrov told Russian TV channels.
- 17:53 28/06/2006
President Vladimir Putin Wednesday ordered Russia's special services to do everything necessary to find and eliminate the killers of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, the Kremlin press service said.
- 16:25 28/06/2006
President Vladimir Putin Wednesday ordered Russia's special services to do everything necessary to find and eliminate the killers of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, the Kremlin press service said.
- 11:17 28/06/2006
"Everything possible should be done to bring the murderers and organizers of the crime to justice," Boris Gryzlov said. "We cannot allow the tasks of investigation and punishment be put aside."
- 19:30 27/06/2006
"We must determine the responsibility of the forces that should be keeping order," Anatoly Safonov said. "We openly say that if a state guarantees order, then state structures should bear responsibility, and if it's coalition forces, then they should keep order, and we will be in contact with them."
- 18:34 27/06/2006
- 17:16 27/06/2006
Hamid Reza Asefi, the official spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said in a news release it is occupational forces that should bear responsibility for terrorist acts targeting innocent civilians and diplomats in Iraq.
- 16:09 27/06/2006
Following the execution of four Russian diplomats by an al-Qaeda-linked extremist group, Sergei Lavrov said, "Security in Iraq should be ensured by both the government of this country... and the U.S.-led coalition forces there."
- 15:34 27/06/2006
Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday that his country would make every effort to bring to justice the murderers of four Russian diplomats killed in Iraq earlier this month.
- 13:45 27/06/2006
- 12:45 27/06/2006
- 11:52 27/06/2006
The lower house of Russia's parliament will draft a declaration on the execution of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, the Duma's first deputy speaker said Tuesday.
- 11:00 27/06/2006
The UN Security Council will adopt an official declaration on the murder of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, a source in Moscow's diplomatic community said Tuesday.
- 09:21 27/06/2006
The UN and the White House have condemned the executions of four Russian diplomats kidnapped by a group linked with al-Qaeda on June 3 in Iraq.
- 21:32 26/06/2006
"It is necessary to reconsider the format for cooperation in the fight against international terrorism," Kosachev said. "This [latest] tragedy is yet another proof there is no human face to terrorism, and that the only way to treat terrorists is to suppress them."
- 20:00 26/06/2006
"It is with great pain that we announce that the irremediable has apparently happened to the captured employees of the Russian embassy in Iraq, despite all the measures that were taken to free our people," a ministry statement said Monday.
- 13:21 26/06/2006
Russia's Foreign Ministry is uncertain that a recording of the purported execution of four Russian diplomats abducted in Iraq really showed the embassy staff, the minister said Monday.
- 12:23 26/06/2006
Russia has not received any information confirming the murder of four diplomats kidnapped on June 3 in Iraq, a deputy foreign minister said Monday.
- 16:47 25/06/2006
- 13:56 22/06/2006
Talks to free four Russian diplomats kidnapped in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, almost three weeks ago have produced some progress, the speaker of the Russian parliament's upper chamber said Thursday.
- 10:04 22/06/2006
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Thursday it had no new information on the fate of four diplomats kidnapped in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, almost three weeks ago.
- 14:10 21/06/2006
Sergei Lavrov said, "We do not intend to share this information with anyone, because the most important thing at the moment is to avoid undermining the efforts that are currently being undertaken to locate and release our citizens."
- 14:20 20/06/2006
The speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament said Tuesday there could be no talks with terrorists who seized Russian diplomats in Iraq and no concessions would be made.
- 12:30 20/06/2006
- 22:04 19/06/2006
Russia is making strenuous efforts to release four officials from its Baghdad embassy abducted in the Iraqi capital in early June, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.
- 18:24 19/06/2006
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Monday that it was checking media reports that an extremist group linked to al-Qaeda was responsible for the abduction of four diplomats in the Iraqi capital earlier this month.
- 21:04 15/06/2006
- 13:39 07/06/2006
At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said the kidnapping was a crime against humanity, Islam, all principles of international law, and traditional Muslim and Arab hospitality.
- 17:20 05/06/2006
- 17:18 05/06/2006
Russia is using all its connections with the Iraqi government to secure the release of its diplomats abducted in Baghdad Saturday, a senior Russian senator said Monday.
- 10:47 05/06/2006
A leader of a prominent Sunni bloc in Iraq, the Accordance Front, has urged the immediate release of Russian diplomatic staff abducted in Baghdad on Saturday, an Arab newspaper said Monday.
- 16:21 04/06/2006
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan condemns Saturday's attack in Iraq, in which one Russian diplomat was killed and four others kidnapped, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday. "The UN Secretary General condemned this attack and urged for putting an end to similar acts of violence. He also called on the Iraqi government and
- 18:22 03/06/2006
- 16:07 03/06/2006
The Russian embassy in Baghdad confirmed media reports Saturday that one of its officials had been killed and four abducted in the Iraqi capital. "A group of unidentified gunmen attacked the [Russian] embassy's vehicle at 1:45 p.m. Moscow time [9:45 a.m. GMT] in Baghdad's eastern Mansour district," embassy spokesman Igor Markov told RIA Novosti on the phone. Markov said one embassy employee had been killed and four kidnapped, but did not specify whether these people were diplomats.
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