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.
US President Barack Obama has canceled plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for a one-on-one summit next month, the White House said Wednesday, amid US fury over Moscow's decision to grant asylum to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official on Wednesday deflected Western criticism of the so-called anti-gay law, saying the recently adopted legislation did not violate the rights of sexual minorities in the country but was aimed at protecting minors.
Nearly half of Russians harbor “mostly good” or “very good” feelings toward Georgia according to a new poll, a threefold rise from five years ago when the two countries fought a brief war over a breakaway Georgian region.
