MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A senior Russian military official expressed concern on Tuesday about what he said were U.S. plans to set up military bases in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. "American military bases are

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will supply Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said on Tuesday after a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov. Serdyukov said Moscow had received a weapons procurement

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - State-controlled Russian Venture Company (RVC) has pooled together 15.9 billion rubles ($576 million) in venture capital funds despite the ongoing financial crisis, the RVC General Director said on Tuesday. The RVC's second tender has

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian arms exports in 2008 have been worth over $8 billion, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday. Sergei Ivanov also said Russia had secured $33 billion worth of firm orders for arms deliveries.

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz have yet to make progress in talks on natural gas deliveries to Ukraine in 2009 and the settlement of the country's 2008 debt, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday.