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The German government and parliament are ready to discuss Russia's proposals on European security, a German MP said Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Turkmenistan on Monday to hold talks on cooperation in the fuel and energy sphere with his counterpart President Gurbaguly Berdymukhamedov.
Middle East states should display political will to prevent nuclear weapon proliferation in the region, experts said Monday.
Israel's withdrawal from occupied territories would only create new security problems, an Israeli political analyst said on Monday.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be resolved in the current political climate, a Russian expert said on Monday.
The trial of John Demjanjuk, charged with involvement in the murder of 27,900 people as a death camp guard during WWII, resumed in Munich on Monday, local media reported.
The iron sign, which was stolen from the entrance to a Nazi-era concentration camp in Poland, may return to the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum on December 22, the museum's spokesman told RIA Novosti on Monday.
If parties to the Mideast conflict are unable to agree among themselves, the international community should impose a collective solution, a Russian expert said on Monday.
The ISS is a combination of several space station projects including the American Freedom, the Russian Mir-2, the European Columbus and the Japanese Kibō.
More than 50 leading Arab media outlets are covering an international conference called "Middle East 2020: Is a Comprehensive Settlement Possible?" in Jordan.
Iran plans to boost oil output 30% to 5.15 million barrels a day and almost double gas output to 1.111 billion cubic meters a day by 2015, the Iranian state channel Press TV said on Monday.
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, expected in about a year's time, will hardly stabilize the situation in the country, a former Russian prime minister said Monday.
Russia opposes efforts to edge the UN Security Council out of the Middle East peace process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged on Monday Israelis and Palestinians to follow the roadmap of the Middle East peace settlement and give up unilateral actions.
Former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei said on Monday it would be a blunder to resume negotiations with Israel on the Middle East settlement in the present context.
Any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would have "horrible and unpredictable consequences," a former Russian prime minister said on Monday.
Poor repairs to a generating unit contributed to the August tragedy at a Siberian hydropower plant, lawmakers said on Monday, citing a parliamentary commission's findings.
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below a month-by-month review of 2009 continues with February
A Russian senator has called the reset in relations with the United States, in particular the countries' coordinated position on a new strategic arms reduction deal, one of the key results of the outgoing year.



