Russia seeks to help solve North Korea funds issue
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Russia is trying to help North Korea  get access to its money held in a Macau bank, a top U.S.  diplomat said in an interview released on Friday.
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Russia says is ready to resolve its dispute with Japan over the Kuril islands, seized by the Soviets in 1945.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun launched a four-day visit to Moscow aimed at boosting Russia's role in curbing North Korea's nuclear weapons drive and getting greater access to Russian energy riches.
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Some of YUKOSâs assets will be sold through the Russian Federal Property Fund, the Justice Ministryâs Main Department in Moscow said on Tuesday.
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Moscow has asked the United States for a clarification following remarks in which U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that Russia's future course is uncertain and lumped the nation together with Iran and North Korea, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.
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Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Iran over its nuclear program had largely met Moscow's concerns and could become the basis of a consensus decision.
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Most of the North Korean funds frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, South Korean and Japanese news agencies said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea has offered Russia exclusive  rights to its natural uranium deposits in exchange for open  support at the six-way talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons, a  Japanese daily said on Sunday.
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Six-way talks on North Korea cannot restart this year or in the foreseeable future because of "unacceptable" U.S. conditions, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a North Korean diplomatic source as saying on Wednesday.
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Russia helps solve a North Korea banking dispute, which had hindered a nuclear deal, US officials say.
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North Korea's nuclear weapons capability poses a threat to Russian interests, the chief Russian negotiator at international talks with Pyongyang has said.
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s foreign minister says the US bankruptcy case involving the embattled Yukos oil company should be settled according to Russian law.
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Russia's envoy to six-party talks on North Korea said on Thursday foreign ministers might need to join the negotiating teams if progress was made during talks on February 8 in Beijing , RIA news agency reported.
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Russia said it would give top priority to funding new efforts to fight terrorism a day after President Vladimir Putin unveiled plans to concentrate national political efforts on the same objective.
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia, saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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China lent Russia $6 billion to help the  Kremlin renationalize the key unit of oil major YUKOS,  officials said on Tuesday, underpinning oil-hungry Beijing's  efforts to tap into Russia's huge energy business.
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North Korea has offered Russia exclusive rights to its natural uranium deposits in exchange for open support at the six-way talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons, a Japanese daily said on Sunday.