Eu-Russia Partnership Deal Delayed
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will not sign a long-awaited strategic partnership accord with the European Union next week because negotiations have made insufficient headway.
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Russia and NATO states on Wednesday struggled to find common ground to resolve a row over a European arms pact, snagged over Moscow's refusal to close bases in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Moldova.
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The European Union regrets Russia's refusal to extradite a murder suspect to Britain but wants to prevent the standoff further damaging already strained EU-Russia relations, an EU presidency official said on Friday.
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BUDAPEST, Feb 12 (IPS) - A constant dispute between the liberal President  and the 'pro-Russian' Prime Minister over foreign  policy has not prevented the European Union (EU) from upgrading  its partnership with Ukraine. But nobody dares to mention  membership just yet.
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The Russian central bank has not transferred about $23 million in previously frozen North Korean funds to a Russian commercial bank, yet another delay holding up a nuclear deal with Pyongyang.
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Russia said Friday it could not rule out freezing its participation in a treaty limiting non-nuclear heavy weaponry around Europe after its attempt to overhaul the accord was rebuffed in what a diplomat called "fine, polite, elegant lip service."
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Russia said on Friday it was likely to postpone talks in Tehran over the construction of a nuclear power station, a project that has been caught up in an international standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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IT HAS taken Russia a long time to find a way to interfere with the eastward expansion of the European Union and Nato.
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The Russian government delays a decision on whether to revoke Yukos' Siberian oil licences by three months.
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NATO has postponed a meeting due on Thursday between its foreign ministers and their Ukrainian counterpart but will seek early talks with a foreign minister of a "new and legitimate" Ukraine government, NATO sources said.
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Italy and Russia said on Wednesday  they wanted talks between Moscow and the European Union on a  new strategic partnership agreement to start as soon as  possible.
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The European Union opened summit talks with Russia in disarray on Friday after Poland vetoed the start of talks on a partnership pact.
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Russia has frozen its participation in a key arms control treaty that limits the deployment of military forces in Europe, the Kremlin announced Saturday.
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Russia warns Nato it could freeze participation in Europe's arms control pact, after talks end in deadlock.
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Russia will delay work on Iran's Bushehr  nuclear reactor because Tehran is behind with payments, a  source in Russia's nuclear agency said on Monday.
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NATO has postponed a Thursday meeting  between its foreign ministers and their Ukrainian counterpart,  to avoid high-level contacts with a government accused of  election fraud, NATO sources said.
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The European Union opened summit talks with Russia in disarray on Friday after Poland vetoed the start of talks on a partnership pact, but the two sides did resolve a dispute over using Russian airspace.