Russia seeks island conflict resolution
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Russia has begun making overtures to Japan to end a 48-year-old territorial dispute over the Southern Kurile Islands, the Novosti news agency said Monday.
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Russia will not radicalise the situation with ethnic Russians in Baltic countries, but it will seek its solution in the format of international humanitarian law, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at ...
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Russia today asked the UN to extend its list of international terrorists to include Chechen rebels. Russia&#39;s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, urged the international community to treat the rebels in the same way it treats al-Qaida operatives.
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U.S. and Russian officials sought on Thursday to play down their differences in talks on global security but a more conciliatory tone was not expected to fix U.S.-Russian relations which are at their lowest ebb in years.
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MOSCOW  - A group of Russian mothers, desperate for peace in Chechnya, told rebels in the breakaway region Wednesday they were ready to mediate peace between the government and militants fighting a decade-long battle for independence.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday said Russia is willing to hand over two of the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan under a declaration that the Soviet Union signed in 1956.
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Russia warns Europe and US against recognising independent state
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Thursday called on the European Union, the United States, Russia and Ukraine to help find a solution to the urgent problem of Moldova s breakaway Dnestr region.
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Environmentalists in Russia are finding an unlikely ally in the Kremlin as it works to stall projects by oil companies on an island unfathomably rich with oil and gas.
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Russia will revamp its security forces and seek international cooperation to hunt militants in the wake of a school siege which killed more than 300 people nine days ago, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.
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Top U.S. and Russian security officials sought to strike a more conciliatory tone in talks on Thursday after months of growing tensions between Washington and Moscow.
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Astana - Moscow, November 17 KAZINFORM - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is planning to discuss with his Japanese colleague Nobutaka Machimura relations between the two countries, including the peace treaty problem.
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Russia on Monday called for an emergency conference next month on a key Soviet-era arms control treaty that has been a source of increasing friction between Moscow and the NATO alliance.
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Japan insists Russia must return all four of the disputed islands in the Kuril chain - not just two.
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Russia on Monday requested an emergency conference to discuss an arms control pact after accusing NATO nations of ignoring the deal negotiated in the months after the Cold War ended.
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EU summit urged to agree to independence plan amid fear that Russia would oppose new UN mandate
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Japan has accused Russia of violating its airspace over and demanded an explanation.