MOSCOW (AFP) – A new explosion shook Russia Thursday as the country held funerals for dozens killed in the Moscow metro suicide bombings claimed by an Islamist group that warned of further strikes. Funerals were to be held at nine cemeteries in Moscow and also in the southern city of Krasnodar as Russia mourned the [...]
MOSCOW: The top diplomats of Russia and the United States on Thursday hailed major progress on a new accord to slash the nuclear arsenals of the Cold War-era foes and predicted a deal would be clinched soon. Russian and US negotiators have been holding talks in Geneva to agree a replacement to the 1991 Strategic [...]
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has said he will send an ambassador to Ukraine, following the electoral defeat of Ukraine’s pro-Western president Viktor Yushchenko’s re-election bid failed miserably on Sunday as voters gave him a humiliating fifth-place finish, leaving two pro-Russian candidates to compete in a February 7 run-off. “I think you should begin your duties [...]
Russia’s President Medvedev vows to punish those responsible for a nightclub fire that killed 109 and declares a day of mourning.
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