- 21:09 20/07/2007
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. 
- 20:51 20/07/2007
- 20:07 20/07/2007
Serbia will revise its relations with countries that unilaterally acknowledge the independence of its Kosovo province, the Serbian ambassador to Russia said Friday.
- 19:51 20/07/2007
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that Russia is ready to improve relations with Britain, strained over the Litvinenko murder case, if mutual respect and common sense prevail on both sides.
- 18:37 20/07/2007
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.
- 18:31 20/07/2007
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- 17:10 20/07/2007
Turkey may carry out a military operation against Kurdish insurgents based in northern Iraq after parliamentary elections July 22, the Turkish prime minister said Friday.
- 17:00 20/07/2007
Russian experts believe the West has decided to grant Kosovo independence despite objections from Russia and Serbia to the proposal, adding that Russia will veto a UN Security Council vote expected later Friday.
- 16:41 20/07/2007
Experts from the UN nuclear watchdog will install monitoring equipment at five North Korean nuclear facilities in the next few weeks as part of an international effort to fold Pyongyang's nuclear program, a Russian diplomat said.
- 16:16 20/07/2007
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday that Britain was to blame for Moscow's suspension of bilateral counter-terrorism cooperation, as the U.K. first suspended ties with Russia's main antiterrorism agency.
- 16:05 20/07/2007
Russia's state debt fell 8.1% in the first six months of this year, from $52 billion to $47.8 billion, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
- 15:53 20/07/2007
The second U.S.-Iran ambassador meeting since the 1979 diplomatic crisis will be held in Baghdad and include Iraqi representatives, Iraq's foreign minister told pan-Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
- 15:42 20/07/2007
Russia is ready to start talks on an amended Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty this autumn, and will continue to honor its provisions until the deadline set by a presidential decree, a Russian diplomat said Friday.
- 15:09 20/07/2007
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A former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a year.
- 13:03 20/07/2007
The un-confirmed results of Thursday's presidential elections in Nagorny Karabakh, a secessionist republic in Azerbaijan, gave a landslide victory to the region's former security chief.
