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Europe will have enough gas this winter provided Ukraine observes the agreements it has signed, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. "If our Ukrainian partners show a sense of responsibility, everything will be alright. Europe will have enough gas,...

Three regional Ministers, responsible for Business and Trade, Urban Development and Public Security, were fired. Other government members would continue to perform their duties as acting Ministers until the investigation was completed. The fire at the Lame Horse club in...

He stressed the work by the Quartet of the West Asia mediators might have been 'more active'. 'We will think about how it might be accomplished,' Mr Lavrov said. 'We will be ready to take it into account in our...

Here’s a bit from the Daily Mail , where some speculate it was a Russian missile test: Tromsø Geophysical Observatory researcher Truls Lynne Hansen was certain the light had been caused by a missile launch. He told Norwegian media that...

Sources had earlier said that it was "satisfactory" for both sides. The delivery of the aircraft carrier, now rechristened INS Vikramaditya, was agreed years ago but has been long delayed due to bargaining over refitting prices. The haggling of the...

Inside the Kremlin, Manmohan Singh and Medvedev emerged from a meeting, shook hands and smiled at each other in front of a huge media presence in the imposing Malachite Hall. With a sense of purpose, as was evident from the...

Published Date: 09 December 2009 RUSSIA will postpone the maiden flight of its first fifth-generation fighter aircraft until 2010, deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said yesterday. Russian government and industry officials had repeatedly said the warplane, seen as Moscow's challenge...

Videsh Ltd (OVL) has entered into an agreement with Russian group Sistema for cooperation in exploration and studying oil and gas assets in Russia and third countries. According to a company press release, the non-exclusive memorandum of understanding (MoU) was...

Russia is seeking to acquire more Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles under a $100 million deal that has more to do with bribing Moscow not to supply Iran with state-of-the-art air-defense missiles that could skewer any Israeli air assault than it...