- 22:58 07/08/2013
A bipartisan group of 12 US senators has signed a letter urging the Pentagon to cancel its recently announced $572 million contract to purchase 30 Russian helicopters for use in Afghanistan.
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- 23:18 06/08/2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated on Tuesday that Moscow does not support certain groups in the Syrian conflict but wants to prevent the Arab nation from turning into another “hotbed of terrorism.”
- 23:17 06/08/2013
Top US and Russian officials will meet here Friday to discuss the fate of intelligence contractor Edward Snowden and a range of other issues, the State Department said Tuesday.
- 22:34 04/08/2013
A senior US Senator said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behaving like a “schoolyard bully,” and added his voice to growing calls for US President Barack Obama to cancel a planned bilateral meeting with Putin next month in Moscow.6
- 09:13 04/08/2013
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev criticized on Sunday the West’s interference in the Middle East, describing it as a “bull in a china shop.”
- 22:39 01/08/2013
Russia has delivered to war-torn Syria another batch of humanitarian aid, this time worth $1.3 million, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday.
- 19:23 01/08/2013
North Caucasus Islamists looking to join the holy war should do so in Russia and not in Syria, possibly targeting the Sochi Olympics, according to a video message attributed to a Syrian jihadist warlord.
- 08:23 01/08/2013
Over 1,000 illegal Vietnamese migrants have been detained in a large-scale police operation in the Russian capital, the Interior Ministry’s Moscow department has said.
- 23:18 29/07/2013
Moscow is calling on all responsible sides in Syria to put an end to the bloodshed unleashed by what it termed “international terrorists,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Monday.
- 15:36 28/07/2013
An international peace conference on Syria expected to be held in Geneva is unlikely to produce positive results, the leader of Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group said, the Saudi-owned news channel Al Arabiya reported on Sunday.1
- 10:13 27/07/2013
Syrian opposition leaders appealed to Russia to stop its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime as the country’s rebel leaders met with the UN Security Council for the first time to discuss the situation in the country plagued by a two-year war.2
- 03:56 26/07/2013
The forthcoming informal meeting of UN Security Council members with the Syrian National Coalition should not be viewed as the opposition group’s recognition “in any official role,” Russia’s UN envoy said on Thursday.
- 07:58 25/07/2013
Russian ships in the Mediterranean help to transfer Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon’s Beirut directly to Syria, Turkish Hurriyet Daily News cited a top Syrian opposition military commander as saying.
- 21:47 24/07/2013
Russia will participate in an informal meeting between members of the UN Security Council and a delegation of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Russia’s UN mission said Wednesday.
- 19:28 24/07/2013
Two senior UN chemical weapons experts, tasked with investigating alleged chemical attacks in Syria, have arrived in Damascus to discuss details of their possible future inquiry, Western media reported on Wednesday.
- 18:34 24/07/2013
The United States’ plans to conduct strikes on Syrian territory conflict with agreements between Moscow and Washington on the convocation of an international peace conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.1
- 20:13 23/07/2013
Rebel forces seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad hope to receive arms from the United States as early as next month after two key US congressional committees approved the weapons shipments, according to media reports.
- 04:50 23/07/2013
The US forces could carry out a variety of missions to support Syrian rebels in their fight against Bashar Assad’s regime, but most of these missions would bear high cost and risk of retaliation, the United States’ top military officer said.
- 10:11 22/07/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
