- 21:03 04/04/2008
- 20:26 04/04/2008
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that any further NATO expansion toward Russia's borders would be interpreted as a direct security threat, but ruled out a new Cold War.
- 19:52 04/04/2008
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- 18:52 04/04/2008
Russia is set to drastically increase its number of strategic aviation patrol flights over the world's oceans to 20-30 a month, the Air Force commander said on Friday.
- 18:29 04/04/2008
- 18:17 04/04/2008
Russia will honor all its contractual commitments to develop peaceful nuclear programs in Iran, President Vladimir Putin told a news conference on Friday after a NATO-Russia Council session in Bucharest.
- 17:08 04/04/2008
Any further expansion by NATO toward Russia's borders will be interpreted as a direct threat to the country's security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 14:49 04/04/2008
- 14:46 04/04/2008
Venezuela is in talks with Moscow for a loan of about $800 million to partially finance the purchase of four Kilo-class Project 636 diesel submarines, Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Friday.
- 14:05 04/04/2008
Iran rejects any new incentives offered by world powers in return for suspending its nuclear enrichment program, the Islamic Republic's president said in an interview published on Friday.
- 13:58 04/04/2008
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Friday he hoped the NATO-Russia Council session in Bucharest, Romania, would help to overcome existing disagreements between Moscow and the alliance.
- 13:48 04/04/2008
Russian energy giant Gazprom took 19th place in the 2008 list of the world's top 2000 companies compiled by U.S. magazine Forbes.
- 13:29 04/04/2008
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- 13:09 04/04/2008
Slovakia, who wants to retrieve 49% of its shares in pipeline operator Transpetrol, could subsequently transfer the stake to Russia, a Russian delegate said.
- 12:57 04/04/2008
The Olympic torch of the Summer Games in Beijing arrived Friday in Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg as part of its mammoth, five-continent relay.
- 12:36 04/04/2008
NATO leaders at a summit in Bucharest issued a statement urging Russia to lift its moratorium on the CFE Treaty and to consider proposals made by the alliance.
- 12:25 04/04/2008
Russia and NATO have agreed on land transits for non-lethal freight through Russian territory to NATO troops deployed in Afghanistan, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Friday.
