BEIJING, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - New spheres of cooperation should be developed through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), particularly the sphere of energy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Chinese students on Saturday. The president, on the second day of
BEIJING, 24 May (RIA Novosti) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday that Russia and China will continue to develop their strategic partnership despite any objections from third countries. The president, on the second day of his official visit to
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and China consider cooperation in nuclear power to be a priority of bilateral economic ties, a communique rounding off President Dmitry Medvedev's two-day visit to the country said on Saturday. "The heads of
KIEV, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine does not plan to prolong the term of Russia's Black Sea Fleet presence in the country after May 28, 2017, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. Russia's Black Sea Fleet currently uses
KIEV, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow's statements on banning a number of Ukrainian politicians from entering Russia are ungrounded and illogical, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. On Thursday the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev began the second day of his visit to China by laying a wreath at a monument on Tiananmen Square, and later met with the chairman of the National People's Congress * Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - A failure of a pyrobolt separating spacecraft's modules caused the ballistic landing of Russia's Soyuz TMA-11 capsule in April this year, the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Saturday. On April
BEIJING, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll from the May 12 earthquake in China's Sichuan province has risen to more than 60,000 and may hit 80,000 as most of the missing are presumed dead, the country's premier said
PARIS, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - France and Latvia have signed a strategic partnership agreement on energy cooperation, defense policy and international relations, French media reported. The agreement signed by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his Latvian counterpart Ivars
WARSAW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Poland will only allow the United States to deploy a missile defense base in Poland if it can be shown that this will improve national security, the prime minister said on Friday. "The American
TBILISI, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia's opposition contested on Friday the results of the May 21 parliamentary polls in the country and threatened to boycott the future parliament. Georgia's Central Election Commission has not yet released the final results
TEHRAN, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - At least 27 people were killed and 15 injured on Friday in southern Iran in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck, national media reported. The incident occurred on the Malayer-Arak highway.
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Sixteen out of 21 oceanic shark and ray species, which are caught for their valuable fins and meat, face the threat of extinction, the IUCN Shark Specialist Group (SSG) said on Friday. The SSG
RUSSIA The presidents of Russia and China, Dmitry Medvedev and Hu Jintao, issued a joint statement in which they: * denounced U.S. moves to establish a global missile defense system, saying the plans threaten the global strategic balance ; *
