8), or Britain's decision to halt its military cooperation with Moscow nor even the threat of international isolation along with many other actions which merely wave the use of force but not to use it.
It commented that it is interesting that the (...)
Chinese veto of the Arab League-backed proposal in the UN Security Council denouncing the Syrian regime has provided Bashar Al-Assad with some breathing space which he is using to continue the brutal crackdown on the Syrian people.
The good news is (...)
girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.
LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson and his Russian ex-girlfriend have reached a financial and custody settlement of a bitter dispute that spawned a criminal case and left the Academy Award winner's reputation damaged.
Los (...)
backed coup or not, the uprising in Kyrgyzstan means the United States may have to bargain hard to keep its last military base in Central Asia.
Turmoil in Kyrgyzstan has thrust the fate of the Manas air base – which is crucial for fighting the (...)
Vera Zvonareva successfully defended her Pattaya Open title, beating hometown favorite Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 6-4 in the final Sunday.
The top-seeded Russian collected her 10th career title and avenged her loss to the Thai in the second round at (...)
made Iranian passenger plane - Tupolev's Tu-154 - carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash-landed in northeastern Iran Sunday injuring at least 46 people, state television reported. Iran has about a dozen Soviet-built Tupolev airliners and they (...)
The Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) is to hold a forum in the Kingdom to gather Saudi and Russian businessmen. An exhibition for Russian companies to display their products has also been mooted.
Abdullah Bin Maree Bin Mahfouz of the (...)
year-old who claims to be an avid Internet user, first began blogging on the Kremlin's own website last year. But the move to LiveJournal - seen as a medium of free speech in Russia - could attract more visitors and provoke more online discussion. __
Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany.
In the category of Medicine, the prize was granted to Professor Ronald Levy of the US, the head of the Division of Oncology at Stanford University Medical School's Department of Medicine.
In the (...)
Australian teenager Stephanie Rice broke her second world record in three days at the national Olympic trials on Tuesday.
The 19-year-old added the 200 meters individual medley record to the 400m mark she claimed on Saturday when she stopped the (...)
controlled natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom and Ukraine on Thursday announced an agreement on gas deliveries for the rest of the year, apparently putting an end to a dispute that had been watched nervously in Western Europe.
The agreement, (...)
SPEAKING EAST, YANUKOVICH'S POWER BASE, AND THE NATIONALIST WEST.
'WE WOULD WANT A GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE THAT PURSUES REFORM,' THE DIPLOMAT SAID. 'AND WE THINK THE MOST RELIABLE COMBINATION FOR THAT IS THE TEAM THAT WON THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL (...)
BUILT ANTONOV 72 AIRCRAFT WAS CARRYING FOOD AID FROM THE LIBYAN TOWN OF SEBHA, SAID MATSALEH DOUGA, A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AGENCY FOR SECURITY AND NAVIGATION FOR AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR.
"THE FLIGHT WENT WELL UNTIL THE MOMENT THE PILOT WANTED TO (...)
8
partners, warning that divisions among the world powers
were giving terrorists the upper hand, AP quoted a source in the
Russian delegation as saying.
Putin made a "small, emotional presentation" Thursday in
which he said he had told British (...)
speaking hardline separatists still controlling Dnestr, a sliver of land bordering Ukraine.
Western countries see Moldova's shift in policy as helpful in tackling the impasse. Russian troops, which helped end a brief war between the two sides in (...)
million-ruble (US$10 million, ¤8.2 million)
reward being offered for information about rebel leaders
Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.
The Federal Security Service "is prepared to cooperate
with anybody, among them members of illegal (...)