Moscow asks U.S. for clarification
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the United States was seeking ways to resolve differences over a planned missile shield, but warned that Moscow could re-deploy weapons if its concerns were not heeded.
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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 hopes Washington will take  seriously its objections to the U.S. missile shield plan,  Russia&#39;s foreign minister said on Thursday before President  Vladimir Putin&#39;s visit to the United States.
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WASHINGTON -- In a phone call yesterday initiated by Vladimir Putin, President Bush and the Russian leader agreed to continue discussing Moscow's concerns about independence for Kosovo, a sensitive subject expected to come up next month in the UN Security Council.
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Russia on Thursday said a top U.S.  intelligence official was harboring "outdated assumptions"  about Moscow by accusing it of backtracking on democracy.
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MOSCOW -- Russia's foreign minister said the United States was perhaps Moscow's "most difficult" partner and urged Washington to learn from its mistakes on the world stage, according to a news report issued yesterday. Sergey Lavrov also faulted Washington for impasses in the Middle East, suggesting that the US approach there was too confrontational, Interfax news agency reported. "Like any ...
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MOSCOW, Jun 7 (IPS) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared to  reaffirm his disagreement with Washington's view of Russian  democracy, reiterate objections to the proposed U.S. missile  shield in Eastern Europe and give more meaningful explanations on  the rules of the international community at the Group of Eight  (G8) summit under way in Germany this week, analysts say.
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Russia said on Saturday that Washington should freeze its missile defence talks with the Czech Republic and Poland pending examination of an alternative Russian proposal on using an Azerbaijani radar site.
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President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia and the United States remain partners and had warm words for President Bush, but he said that he would like to know whether the United States was intentionally ...
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A senior Russian envoy said Tuesday he is hopeful Poland's new government will listen to Moscow's objections to a proposed U.S. missile defense base, and said Warsaw was set to discuss the issue with Russia early next year.
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PRAGUE, June 5 -- President Bush declared Tuesday that Russia has "derailed" democratic reforms and that the United States would continue to press it on this issue. The remarks, his most pointed public comments about civil liberties in Russia, came at a time of heightened tensions with Moscow.
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The United States and Germany  made one last appeal to Russia on the future status of Kosovo  before deciding on Friday whether to shelve a U.N. Security  Council resolution Moscow has threatened to veto.
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The United States on Monday strongly  urged Russia and Georgia to "lower the rhetoric" after a spying  furor and offered Washington's help to resolve long-standing  conflicts such as in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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Russia rejected on Wednesday U.S.  criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President  Vladimir Putin, saying this was strictly Moscow's business.
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The United States and Germany made one last appeal to Russia on the future status of Kosovo before deciding on Friday whether to shelve a U.N. Security Council resolution Moscow has threatened to veto.
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Russia said on Tuesday it was preparing a &quot;targeted&quot; response &quot;very soon&quot; in a diplomatic dispute with Britain, putting off an expected announcement of counter-measures against London.