- 03:46 07/06/2013
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has declared June 7 a national day of mourning for soldiers killed in a suicide blast in Afghanistan on Thursday.
- 20:03 06/06/2013
Russia is committed to ensuring conditions for its permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean, where it has legitimate national security interests, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 14:08 05/06/2013
NATO is closely watching events in Georgia, the alliance's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday, after Tbilisi accused Russia last week of setting up wire fences along the South Ossetia-Georgia border.2
- 10:13 05/06/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 15:17 03/06/2013
NATO is concerned by the situation on the Georgia-South Ossetia border, where Russian forces put up wire fences along the border last week, NATO's envoy for the South Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai said on Monday.4
- 07:50 03/06/2013
NATO countries start on Monday large-scale security cooperation exercises on the territory of the former Soviet republics in the Baltic region, the Estonian military said.
- 03:27 03/06/2013
US and Canadian military inspectors are expected to complete on Monday their two-day joint monitoring mission over Russian territory under the international Open Skies Treaty, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
- 14:46 31/05/2013
NATO defense chiefs will meet in Brussels next week to review measures on how to protect member countries from cyber attacks, a diplomatic source said on Friday.
- 18:15 29/05/2013
Russia is ready to expand military contacts with Finland and to help the country modernize its armed forces, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.
- 22:26 28/05/2013
The European Union’s decision to end the embargo on arms supplies to the Syrian opposition is illegitimate and at odds with the norms of international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.1
- 19:01 28/05/2013
Russia and NATO will conduct a joint naval exercise in the Black Sea this coming fall, Russia’s envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
- 12:17 28/05/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, on Tuesday to take part in an informal summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states.
- 11:20 28/05/2013
If the message from Russian President Vladimir Putin that his national security advisor Nikolai Patrushev transmitted to US President Barack Obama last week is meant to be the Russian leader’s final offer in US-Russian negotiations over America’s ballistic missile defense (BMD), then Russian and US diplomats might as well quit trying to find a compromise solution to the thorniest of problems impeding the development of bilateral relations.
- 20:01 27/05/2013
The situation in Syria poses a serious threat to the entire Middle East region, Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh said on Monday.
- 07:01 27/05/2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris on Monday evening to discuss preparations for the upcoming international conference on Syria.
- 01:31 27/05/2013
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are preparing to take part in a large-scale international exercise, Saber Strike, to take place in early June, Estonian TV reported on Sunday.
- 03:02 26/05/2013
Estonia completed on Saturday large-scale military drills, which began on May 9 and involved some 5,000 military personnel, including from NATO allies, the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces said.2
- 18:14 24/05/2013
Members of foreign delegations attending an international conference on European security on Friday visited a military base near Moscow hosting a motorized infantry division.
- 14:23 24/05/2013
Azerbaijan will join neither NATO nor the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), but is prepared to cooperate with both, a presidential aide said on Friday.1
