Putin's China Visit Leaves Question Marks About Oil
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met  several top officials in Beijing Friday, winding up two days of  official talks that were rich in symbolism but left unanswered  many key questions about energy supplies to China.
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Russia promised to sort out Yukos oil deliveries to China ahead of a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao dominated by the struggling oil major's decision to cut supplies to the energy-hungry Asian giant.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits former Cold War ally India this week, hoping to retain a dominant share of India&#39;s military hardware market and boost cooperation in oil and civilian nuclear energy.
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President Bush on Monday received assurances from Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country would boost production and export of oil as prices hover near record levels.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- President Vladimir Putin of Russia held talks yesterday with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Iraq and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the first visit by a Russian leader to the kingdom.
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MOSCOW - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrived in Moscow yesterday for talks dominated by a threat to Russian oil supplies to China and Beijing&#39;s lobbying for a pipeline between the two countries.
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China lent Russia &#36;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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Soaring oil prices once again  threaten to hijack Friday's meeting of finance chiefs from the  world's top economic powers, overshadowing China's debut in the  G7 spotlight.
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MOSCOW - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday and told him that China is ready to provide &quot;feasible help&quot; to Russia in the fight against terrorism, Itar-Tass news agency reported Friday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India to discuss defence, energy and oil deals.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to find quick success on a historic Mideast tour that saw the leader of energy-rich Russia forging oil diplomacy in Saudi Arabia and backing a natural gas cartel yesterday with neighboring Qatar.
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MOSCOW  - On the eve of a three-day visit to China, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would take its foreign partners' needs into account when building energy pipelines in the Far East but would proceed on the basis of its own national interests.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused in the West of backtracking on democracy, turns East this week to visit China which many in the Kremlin camp see as a model of an economically-successful autocracy.
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With a Putin aide now at its helm, Russia's state-run oil firm seems set to grab the falling giant's assets
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Chinese officials urged Russiaâs biggest oil exporter Yukos Oil Company to stand by its earlier commitments to export crude oil to China.
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President Vladimir Putin headed to Beijing insisting that Russia would be driven only by self-interest in deciding to supply oil to rivals China and Japan through a future Far Eastern oil pipeline.
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In the first trip to Saudi Arabia by a Russian leader, President Vladimir Putin and his Saudi counterparts are expected to discuss economic and military cooperation and the conflicts that continue to trouble region.