Russia seeks role in Iraqi settlement - Putin
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SOCHI. Sept 1 (Interfax) - Russia wants to help bring the situation in Iraq back to normal and restore order in the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Turkish journalists in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
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President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia's regions and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree permitting Russian organizations to sell weapons and military equipment to Iraq's provisional government, the Kremlin said Monday.
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President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia could re-deploy weapons if its concerns were not heeded.
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Vladimir Putin extolled Russia's economic revival and staked a claim to a role in ruling the country for the foreseeable future as he responded to questions Thursday at the final annual Kremlin news conference of his eight-year presidency.
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his doubt that the Iraqi elections will be held at their due time. Putin said during his meeting with the Interim Iraqi prime minister Eyad Allawi that he
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Russia's President Putin says the US should set a date for a withdrawal from Iraq.
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Iraq is still too dangerous for Russian companies to work there, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Friday. &quot;Our companies are ready to return to Iraq as soon as the necessary
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says he cannot imagine how Iraq could hold its elections (planned for next month) as long as the country remains under what he called foreign occupation.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin today used his annual Kremlin press conference to address many of the issues that made headlines in Russia and abroad in 2004.
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President Vladimir Putin said the United States should set a firm date for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, otherwise the Iraqi leadership will do little to reorganize its armed forces, according to a Kremlin statement Thursday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq on Thursday, saying that experience showed the need for resource-rich countries like Russia to build up their armed forces to defend themselves.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as both sides seek to put differences over the US-led war behind them and look ahead to reviving decades-old business ties.
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At a Kremlin meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi he has doubts about how elections can be held under current security conditions in Iraq.
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RUSSIA today agreed to join a pact to forgive up to 80 per cent, or about $US33 billion ($42.44 billion) worth, of Iraq&#39;s debts, a US Treasury official said at a Group of 20 meeting where the multinational agreement was engineered.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani welcomed Friday an expected Russian decision to write off 91 percent of Iraq's estimated $13 billion debt, calling it a "historic turning point" in relations between the two countries.
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BEIJING, Aug.21 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Georgia and its South Ossetia region to renounce violence and settle their standoff through talks.