- 20:26 05/04/2013
Russia is not looking to oust Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and wants the conflicting parties to negotiate and stop the “massacre,” putting an end to the “catastrophe” in Syria, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
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- 21:23 02/04/2013
The West might try implementing a modified "Libyan scenario" in Syria by supplying weapons to the Syrian opposition to oust President Bashar al-Assad, Alexei Pushkov, the head of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, said on Tuesday.1
- 18:36 02/04/2013
On April 5, 2009 President Barack Obama gave a speech that was supposed to set the agenda for his presidency in international security. “I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” he proclaimed in front of an enthusiastic crowd in Prague.
- 05:14 02/04/2013
Six years after announcing a unilateral moratorium on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the Russian Defense Ministry has reaffirmed that the original document has no prospects in the future.
- 01:44 30/03/2013
A senior NATO official said on Friday that military conflict between the United States and North Korea was not inevitable, but that Washington and its allies are capable of deterring that outcome.
- 21:06 29/03/2013
US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul’s official residence in Moscow is Spaso House, a Neoclassical Revival mansion that served as the setting for a ball hosted by the devil in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, “Master and Margarita.” An apt home, some might say, for a man who has been demonized by state-run media and pro-Kremlin officials since his arrival in the Russian capital a little over a year ago.1
- 20:28 29/03/2013
Russian shipbuilders are working on developing new “super mini” submarines, the United Shipbuilding Corporation state holding company said on Friday.
- 22:21 27/03/2013
Russian defense officials and NATO representatives will discuss the creation of army maintenance bases in Afghanistan in May, a Defense Ministry official said on Wednesday.
- 21:35 27/03/2013
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday that he did not see a joint Russia-NATO missile shield in Europe as the most efficient option.2
- 21:14 25/03/2013
Russia wants to resume regular consultations with the United States on a range of security issues, including missile defense, a top military official said Monday.
- 19:36 20/03/2013
Security officials from Russia and the United States will meet in May to discuss a recent US decision to curtail its planned European missile defense system, a senior Russian defense official said on Wednesday.
- 17:22 20/03/2013
Russia needs to determine exactly who its enemies are and develop its Armed Forces accordingly, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday.2
- 17:48 19/03/2013
The government of Kyrgyzstan has approved a bill allowing the transit of NATO military cargo by land to and from Afghanistan, the government's press service said on Tuesday.
- 09:48 19/03/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 04:55 19/03/2013
The United States should explain to Russia what changes it made in its European missile defense plans before Moscow draws its conclusion, a Defense Ministry official said on Tuesday.
- 21:09 18/03/2013
Washington’s decision to scrap plans to place missile defense elements in Poland does nothing to address Moscow’s national security concerns and will not affect its stance on the issue, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview published on Monday.1
- 19:54 17/03/2013
Washington’s plans to abandon a key part of a European missile defense plan strongly opposed by Russia are ‘no way’ linked to Moscow, The New York Times has reported citing a Pentagon spokesman.1
- 15:43 10/03/2013
Prominent Afghan actor Nazar Mohammad Majnonyar Helmandi who starred in more than a dozen films highlighting the struggle against drug trafficking and terrorism was killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan, Pajhwok news agency reported on Sunday.1
- 04:02 08/03/2013
The Georgian parliament on Thursday approved a 19-point resolution, in line with which the country is to continue its integration into the European Union and NATO and will have no diplomatic relations with states recognizing the independence of breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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