US-Russia tensions in spotlight at Munich security conference
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President Vladimir Putin is expected to assert a Russian view of global security sharply at odds with that of the United States, when he speaks at a security conference.
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BRATISLAVA, February 6 (RIA Novosti, Leonid Sviridov) - Slovakia plans to use the S-300 air defense complex to ensure security during the February summit between Vladimir Putin and George Bush, writes the ...
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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Emergency talks on a key arms control pact began in restrained fashion on Tuesday with Russia, the United States and NATO states all at pains not to escalate East-West confrontation, the U.S. and Russian delegations said.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria  - Russia and the United States on  Tuesday clashed over efforts to win influence in Ukraine and  other former Soviet republics, with Moscow warning the West  against interference and Washington rejecting the charge.
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A row breaks out between the US and Russia as Washington accuses Moscow of bullying its smaller neighbours.
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MAFRA, Portugal - President Vladimir V. Putin yesterday evoked one of the most dangerous confrontations of the Cold War to highlight Russian opposition to a proposed US missile defense system in Europe, comparing it to the Cuban missile crisis of 45 years ago.
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Germany's foreign minister said the United States should have included Russia in discussions of a proposed missile defense project in Poland and the Czech Republic, according to comments released Sunday.
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Dailies in Germany are interested in Chancellor Schroeder's meeting with President Putin. Their Russian counterparts continue to ponder events in Ukraine, and Turkey's bid for EU membership puts in yet another appearance.
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WARSAW -- Despite deep differences between Europe and the United States over the Iraq war, missile defense, and NATO's future, President Vladimir Putin of Russia failed in a harsh speech to widen the dispute with Washington, according to security analysts in Poland and elsewhere.
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WASHINGTON -- A debate is brewing at the highest levels of the Bush administration over whether to adopt a tougher stance toward Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, who has systematically rolled back democratic freedoms and tried to snuff out democracy in weak neighboring states with little American opposition, according to US officials and policy analysts.
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Emergency talks on a key arms control  pact began in restrained fashion on Tuesday with Russia, the  United States and NATO states all at pains not to escalate  East-West confrontation, the U.S. and Russian delegations said.
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Differences over Kosovo and U.S. plans to install missile defenses in eastern Europe loomed large at talks Thursday between Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and his NATO counterparts.
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Leaders from major industrial powers are in Germany for a G8 summit overshadowed by US-Russian tensions.
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US president in attempt to placate Vladimir Putin after Russian president's threat to aim missiles at western countries in retaliation.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia proposed yesterday that an existing missile-defense radar system in Azerbaijan be used to protect Europe from a possible future attack from Iran, and President Bush said the United States and Russia would begin talks to find areas of potential strategic cooperation.
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President George W. Bush sought to calm Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday over plans for a U.S. missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, saying on the eve of a big-power summit that Russia had nothing to fear.