The Russian Navy has plans for developing a balanced nuclear missile force by 2050, the Russian Navy commander said on Sunday.
 
"In our understanding, it is important to know exactly what the navy should be by the year 2050, proceeding from two things: it must be a balanced nuclear ...

Delegates from the US and Russia have started a new round of talks on Wednesday for reviving START, the nuclear arms reduction treaty which will expire by 2009 end.Diplomats from both countries told DPA that the teams had begun their meetings at the Russian diplomatic mission in Geneva in the late ...

G8 on Thursday has called for an increased coordination among countries to check the abuse of internet by terrorist organizations for misinformation. 
"Special attention must be paid to the abuses by terrorist organisations of both modern and more traditional means of public ...

The US President Barack Obama started his first meeting with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday morning at the Russian prime minister's country residence present outside Moscow.
Obama, on his first visit to Russia after becoming president, held extensive talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on ...

The president of Russia's volatile southern republic of Ingushetia has been hospitalised after he was seriously injured in an assassination attempt, the republic's interior ministry said Monday.
"Ingush President Yunus-bek Yevkurov, his younger brother and one of his bodyguards were injured ...

Giving a surprise to the USA and its NATO allies, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that, Moscow is ready to cooperate with NATO on the Afghan issue. Moving far ahead he has even welcomed US President Barack Obama's plans to review US policy in that war-ravaged nation.
 
Mr Medvedev ...

Ukraine has signed a fresh copy of a gas transit monitoring agreement and removed earlier conditions, Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said on Monday (12th January). The Russian firm Gazprom said in a statement that its delegation conducted negotiations in Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine ...

Russia has announced to conduct as many as 39 space launches in the year 2009, thereby setting a world record of operating maximum number of space launches in one year. While informing about the plan, the head of the Russian Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov said that of the total number satellites, ...

The high level talks between Russia and Georgia regarding maintaining ceasefire have collapsed. The two nations were engaged in war in August this year. Report says that Russain delegation and its allies left the talks before their scheduled end. According to the European Union's special envoy for ...

India and Russia continuing their amicable relations now will enter into large defense deals. The ongoing meeting of Defense Minister A K Antony and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov will aim to resolve problems which have come up in front of military projects for Sukhoi-30MKI fighters, ...

Russia has decided to bring a considerable part of Arctic Ocean under its personal domain. In a statement, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev revealed that inclusion of portion of Arctic Ocean which lies near the northern border of Russia will turn the Arctic into the resource base of 21st century ...

All 88 people, comprising 82 passengers and six crew members died, aboard a Russian Boeing 737-500 airliner died after it crashed near the Ural Mountains on Sunday, September 13, 2008, informed officials. The plane was on an internal flight from Moscow and it was while trying to land in the ...

Bush showing his symbolic anger on Russian attack on Georgia has scrapped proposed US-Russia nuke deal. Earlier, Bush had sent the agreement to Congress for approval in May, and now he himself has pulled it back. Announcing the decision on Bush's behalf, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said ...

Russia is developing Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) which expectedly would start operation in the year 2010. Reports say that a tugboat will be used to move the FNPP, and there would not be any use of nuclear fuel for its transportation. It would look like a small island with an area of ...

US President George W Bush has condemned Russia for recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. President Bush said that Abkhazia and South Ossetia are well within the internationally recognized borders of Georgia, and they must remain so. Earlier, Russian president Medvedev ...

The southern part of Russia's Lake Baikal area on Wednesday, August 27, got a severe jolt from an earthquake, reported the news agencies of Russia. So far no report of any casualty though has reached. As per the Irkutsk seismic station, the quake measured 6.7 on the Richter scale and took place at ...

France which is currently holding revolving presidency of European Union (EU) has asked member states for an emergency meeting on September 1. The meeting aims to discuss the crisis in Georgia. The venue of the meeting would be Brussels. A statement released from President's office in France tells ...

US destroyer ship USS McFaul has reached on the coast of Georgia; the report has been confirmed by U.S. Embassy spokesman Stephen Guice in Tbilisi, and also, there has been confirmation of the same from Russian side. However, the vessel is carrying relief materials needed at torn area of Georgia. ...

In midst of overwhelming pressure from Western governments on Russia to follow ceasefire agreement to withdraw its soldiers from Georgia, Russia will soon take out its army from invaded land. In a statement President Dmitry Medvedev promised that Russian troops will begin pulling out of Georgia ...

NATO seems to be taking new military assertiveness in Russian defense policy a challenge. In order to meet new challenges and take tough stand against Russian offensive against small nation Georgia; NATO members will meet at Brussels on 19th August to discuss the issue and decide on the ...

Georgia in its hope to get justice has filed a law suit in International Court of Justice. It has charged the crimes of genocides and ethnic cleansing against Russia during 1993-2008. ICJ too has confirmed that the Georgian ambassador to the Netherlands filed a law suit. The ICJ was set up to solve ...

Finally, the peace in Georgia may be possible. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili after meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that he has agreed to a modified version of a peace plan with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. He said that the agreement is a political ...

Georgia's president has said his country had been effectively cut in half after Russia’s seizure of several towns and a military base in western Georgia. Fighting has been reported lately around Tskhinvali, the capital of the separatist province of South Ossetia. Russian warplanes launched ...

UN Secretary General Bank Ki Moon has said that the situation could worsen in Abkhazia if conflict is not resolved soon. He is of opinion that fighting in Georgia's Abkhazia could be dangerously destabilizing to the region. He based his opinion on the news of Georgia’s retaliation and ...

In midst of continued fighting between Russia and Georgia, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, and Finland Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) recently met with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to restore peace in ...

Russian novelist, dramatist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who told the world about the Soviet labour camp system Gulag through his writings, died at his Moscow home on Sunday, August 3. He was 89 years old.
 
Widely remembered as the person with an ascetic dress and flowing beard, ...

Russia is going to sign a key agreement with its communist neighbour China for handing over the control of the two disputed islands the coming week. For this Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, will fly down to China on July 21- July 22 to sign the necessary documents and let go the ...

Newly elected Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev is on his first visit to China after assuming office from Friday, May 22, 2008. The Russian President is going to meet President Hu Jintao and other important Chinese leaders for talks which are likely to be focused on trade negotiations. By visiting ...

Dmitri A Medvedev, shortly after being sworn in as Russia’s President has nominated the country’s former President Vladimir Putin as his Prime Minister. Medvedev, a Kremlin insider and lawyer, was sworn in as the third President of Russia on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 inside the Grand ...

Amidst an impressive ceremony on Wednesday 7 May, Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as Russia’s third president ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. Dmitry Medvedev, who is 42 years old, executed the pledge-taking ceremony in the Kremlin\'s gold-leafed Great Palace. He announced that his ...