- 14:16 11/05/2013
An international conference between representatives of both sides in the Syrian conflict is unlikely to take place before the end of May as earlier stated, as there are still too many differences of opinion over the event’s format.
- 06:32 11/05/2013
The United States believes a military engagement in Syria may still be prevented, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.
- 19:49 10/05/2013
Russia has no plans to supply Syria with weapons beyond the current contracts that Moscow is honoring, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 18:54 10/05/2013
Russia and the United Kingdom have common interest in preserving Syria’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
- 06:48 10/05/2013
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday thanked top Russian and US diplomats for their initiative to organize an international conference on Syria, his spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
- 02:53 10/05/2013
US officials on Thursday reiterated their call to Moscow to cut off arms sales to Syria, hours after media reports suggested that Russia was ready to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to the country.6
- 19:47 09/05/2013
Syria’s Foreign Ministry welcomed on Thursday rapprochement between the United States and Russia over resolving the crisis in the war-torn country, the Syrian state news agency has reported.
- 10:23 09/05/2013
While an internationally brokered resolution of the Syrian conflict may not yet be within sight, Russia is in a position to play a crucial role in pushing the Syrian elites to accept a transition process, or so argues Jeffrey Mankoff, Deputy Director and Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).4
- 21:24 08/05/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with UK Prime Minister David Cameron on May 10 in Moscow, the Kremlin press service said on Wednesday.
- 15:28 08/05/2013
The Kremlin is trying to force the majority of independent nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia to shut down their operations, the leaders of two prominent Russian human rights groups said on Wednesday.2
- 13:59 08/05/2013
The UN and Arab League's special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, “warmly welcomed” on Wednesday an agreement between Russia and the United States to convene international talks on Syria that will include both representatives of the Syrian government and opposition.
- 09:18 08/05/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 01:13 08/05/2013
Russia and the United States will set up an international conference on Syria by the end of this month that will hopefully include representatives of the Syrian government and opposition, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday.9
- 00:20 08/05/2013
FBI Director Robert Mueller held “productive” security talks with his Russian colleagues in Moscow on Tuesday, the US embassy in Russia said.
- 00:03 08/05/2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov said at talks in Moscow on Tuesday that Russia and the United States are interested in bilateral cooperation despite US-Russian differences.
- 20:30 07/05/2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry assured Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that Washington shares Moscow’s approach to the resolution of the Syria conflict.2
- 00:44 07/05/2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry is planning to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on Tuesday as part of a two-day trip to Russia this week that a senior US State Department official on Monday called part of “more intensified dialogue with the Russians at the highest levels.”
- 11:15 02/05/2013
Bolivian President Evo Morales followed the example of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, expelling Wednesday the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from the country.
- 01:09 02/05/2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Washington supports Georgia’s aspirations to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), ambitions that Moscow has repeatedly warned will only inflame tensions in the South Caucasus.2
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