Russia sends hardliner to Nato
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Russia's President Putin appoints nationalist Dmitry Rogozin as Russia's new ambassador to Nato.
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Russia's envoy to NATO urged the United States to hold broader consultations with Moscow on its plans to deploy missile defense sites in Europe, saying in an interview published Wednesday that Russia was disappointed by a lack of U.S. cooperation.
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Â· Europe tour may anger Kremlin before G8 summitÂ· Moscow comments are unhelpful, says Nato
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia would go back to its Cold War stance of aiming its missiles at Europe if Washington went ahead with a plan to build a missile defence shield near Russia's borders.
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The head of NATO urged Russian President  Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to engage more closely with the  alliance to bridge differences over Kosovo and U.S. plans for a  missile defense shield.
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NATO countries have agreed to offer   ex-Soviet Georgia talks on closer ties with the Western   alliance, NATO sources said on Monday, signaling a move likely   to anger Russia.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday warned NATO against steps that would compromise Russian security, pointing to persistent disagreements on arms control.
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POIANA BRASOV, Romania -- Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov agreed Thursday to send warships to help NATO&#39;s naval patrols monitoring suspicious vessels in the Mediterranean as part of a drive for closer counterterrorism cooperation between Russia and the
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President Vladimir Putin's newly appointed envoy to NATO emphasized Moscow's opposition to Kosovo's independence bid Thursday, but said Russia would not send peacekeepers to the Serbian province.
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The Nato summit in Riga this week will be dominated by the war it is waging against the Taleban in Afghanistan and by the concept that Nato should increasingly play a global role, says Paul Reynolds
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Guess who's not coming to dinner? Vladimir Putin was not invited to NATO's first summit in a country once incorporated into the Soviet Union, but that did not stop rumors that the Russian leader might show up for a meal anyway.
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Russia said Saturday it will suspend participation in a key European arms control treaty, halting NATO inspections of its military sites and no longer limiting the numbers of its tanks and other heavy conventional weapons.
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NATO said on Monday it was very concerned at Russia's decision to suspend participation in a landmark treaty limiting armed forces in post-Cold War Europe amid growing tension over a U.S. missile shield.
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President Vladimir Putin has appointed a firebrand nationalist who champions re-armament to counter the West as Russia's permanent representative to NATO, a Kremlin spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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Nato condemns Russia's threat to aim weapons at Europe over the planned US missile defence shield.
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Russia on Wednesday proposed working on a new pact on limiting military forces in Europe, a top defense ministry official was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday named a prominent nationalist politician as Russia's ambassador to NATO at a time of severely strained ties between Moscow and the Western alliance.