Russia Summons U.S. Diplomat Over Iraq Arms Claim
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Russia summoned a U.S. diplomat to protest at a Pentagon claim that Russian soldiers spirited away hundreds of tons of explosives from a site in Iraq just before the U.S. invasion, Interfax news agency said on Friday.
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Russia dismissed accusations that  Russian firms abused the U.N. oil-for-food program imposed on  Iraq, saying on Wednesday that there was no proof of wrongdoing  by Russian companies.
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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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U.S. and Russian lawmakers will hold  a joint session of their foreign affairs committees in  Washington later this month to discuss growing tensions between  the two countries, the chairman of the U.S. House of  Representatives panel announced on Tuesday.
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Russia's foreign minister said that Moscow sees the establishment of U.S. missile defense sites in Europe as a signal that the United States wants to gain nuclear superiority over Russia.
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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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MUNICH, Germany  - Russia and the United States must take leadership in discussions on a new international arms regime, Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday.
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Russia said on Wednesday it wanted to  supply Syria with advanced missile systems, a move certain to  anger the United States which accuses Syria of having links to  terrorism.
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Russia agreed on Sunday to forgive up to 80 percent of Iraqâs debts to the Paris Club (about $33 billion). A US Treasury official quoted by Reuters said they received this information from Russia.
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Russia summons the UK ambassador over the reopening of British Council offices in defiance of a ban.
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Russia summoned the British ambassador and imposed sanctions Monday after the British Council defied a government ban to close two offices, heightening diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
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Russia's President Putin says the US should set a date for a withdrawal from Iraq.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Britain's ambassador Monday, after the British Council defied orders by reopening its offices.
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Russia wants more concrete reasons from  Washington as to why it plans to build an anti-missile system  in Poland and the Czech Republic, Foreign Minister Sergei  Lavrov said on Tuesday.
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Japan today summoned a Chinese diplomat after identifying a submarine that intruded its waters as Chinese. &quot;We have judged the submarine to belong to the Chinese navy and it&#39;s likely the submarine was a nuclear
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Iraq's foreign minister said Iraqi authorities have arrested a man suspected of organizing the murder of four Russian diplomats in Baghdad last year, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
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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.