Russia has agreed to allow American troops and weapons to fly over its airspace on the way to Afghanistan, the New York Times reported...

Moscow, July 3 (RIA Novosti) Moscow and Washington will sign deals expanding bilateral military ties and on transit of military supplies via Russia to the American troops in Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's visit to the Russian capital, an official said...

MOSCOW | Russia said Friday it will allow the United States to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a long-sought move that bolsters U.S. military operations but potentially gives the...

MOSCOW — Russia said Friday that it will allow the United States to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a long-sought move that bolsters U.S. military operations but could give...

Washington - Russia has agreed to allow American troops and weapons to fly over its airspace on the way to Afghanistan, the New York Times reported Saturday. The breakthrough was to be announced when...

People queue to push a symbolic Reset Button for US - Russian relations near a life-size cardboard cutout of U.S. President Barak Obama and US flag in downtown Moscow on Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP...

Russia who dares to speak out against injustice - injustice of which he has become a victim. His tireless campaigning revealed horrific abuse inside Russian prisons. We witness footage of men in...

President Obama is to visit Russia next week, but U.S. hopes to 'reset' ties with Moscow may run into the problem that being in opposition to America is a stance that serves the...

Barack Obama's arrival in Russia next week will coincide with an official campaign against social ills, from gambling and drinking to dog mess.Moscow's flourishing casinos and gaming halls closed...

In the third of her series of reports from Russia, Margaret Warner talks with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about the future of U.S.-Russian relations, last year's Georgian War, and negotiating a...

MOSCOW: Russia said it will allow the United States to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a long-sought move that bolsters US military operations but potentially gives the Kremlin ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians have warmed markedly to the United States under Barack Obama, but still think official ties are poor, a poll showed three days before the U.S. president visits on Monday....

A senior Obama administration official has told the BBC that Russia has agreed to let US troops bound for the war in Afghanistan fly through its airspace.The deal, which opens up an important new...

BARACK Obama will have few traffic problems getting to the Kremlin for his first summit with Russian president Dmitri Medvedev on Monday – the Obamamania that has swept much of the rest of the...

A men guards a casino in Moscow July 1, 2009. The door plates read: "Casino is closed. The government has ordered the closure of all casinos and gambling halls Wednesday, consigning gambling to four...

MOSCOW, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, approved on Friday a Russia-China intergovernmental agreement on oil cooperation, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. ...

MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday called on the United States to move relations forward by shelving plans for a missile defence shield in Europe, news agencies reported. Days...

July 3, 2009 · President Obama leaves Sunday on a foreign trip that takes him first to Russia. In Moscow, the president will meet with his counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, and Prime Minister...

Margaret Warner is filing a series of reports about Russia's political and economic climate in conjunction with President Barack Obama's visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 6. Here,...

(AP) — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said former Russian President Vladimir Putin and his hand-picked successor should expect an in-person reminder the Cold War is over when the U.S....

By Nabi Abdullaev, Alexander Rose / Special to The Moscow Times On his first trip to Russia four years ago, Barack Obama, a junior Democratic senator from Illinois, was detained for several hours at...

Moscow/Washington: The US and Russia are digging in for a fight over American plans for missile defence bases in eastern Europe in spite of efforts by both sides to create a positive atmosphere...

By Lidia Okorokova / Special to The Moscow Times A Sberbank security guard accused of stealing a record 250 million rubles ($8 million) after holding up his own armored truck has been captured in an...

Anti-missile plans could still be an obstacle Saturday, July 04, 2009 MOSCOW: US and Russian negotiators have still not reached agreement on cutting stocks of their deadliest nuclear weapons...

By Nadia Popova / The Moscow Times Rusnano, the state nanotechnology giant, hopes to press President Barack Obama for tax breaks for Russian technology as it wraps up plans to create a $1 billion...

An official reception on the occasion of the 130th anniversary since the establishment of Bulgarian-Russian diplomatic relations took place in Russia's embassy in Sofia on Thursday. Russia's Foreign...

to fly over Russian territory, providing an important new corridor for the U.S. military as it escalates efforts to win the eight-year-old war, officials from both sides said Friday, according to...

Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday approved a bill easing restrictions on the country's beleaguered human rights groups and other non-governmental...

MOSCOW — This was supposed to be Russia’s round in the battle over its backyard. All year, despite its own economic spasms, Moscow has earmarked great chunks of cash for its...

Russia's economy — until recently one of the fastest growing in Europe — is in dire straits. In the first three months of this year, output fell by 10% compared with a year earlier. The...

isn't hectic enough, this summer he's piled on the role of mentor and Washington cultural ambassador to a Russian student. And not just any kid:...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, October 2007 (Ralph Orlowski, Getty Images) MOSCOW (AP) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the U.S. president is wrong to suggest he remains mired in a Cold...

Russian delegates have walked out of an OSCE session in Vilnius after it voted for a remembrance day for the victims of both Nazism and Stalinism.The pan-European security and democracy body passed a...

President Barack Obama's family will join him in Moscow next week. Here are some suggestions for how Malia and Sasha can spend their time in the Russian capital. (July...

12 Russian targets for U.S. nuclear missiles MOSCOW, July 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the U.S. will both benefit from a new strategic arms reduction agreement, a Russian deputy foreign minister said...

MOSCOW, Jul 3 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Russia next week is expected to bring significant but limited improvement in troubled relations between the two giants.Obama has spoken...

Display of force Topol-M ballistic missile drive through Moscow's Red Square in May. Russia is spending billions to modernize its military, depleted since the Cold...

of having harassed its citizens living on Russian territory in a dispute dating back three years. The court said in statement the decision to hear the complaint "in no way prejudges the merits of...

In her latest report from Russia, Margaret Warner takes a look at the health and well-being of the Russian people, including the low life expectancy for adult...

Hoping to revive the cooperative spirit of the early 1990s, Americans are coming to Russia to end a decade of mistrust. President Barack Obama is expected in Moscow next week to discuss a wide...

Vote MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday approved a bill easing restrictions on the country's beleaguered human rights groups and other non-governmental...

A never-before-heard recording of the dramatic moment in which British boffins observed a Soviet attempt to scupper American victory in the race to the Moon has been made available to the public...

Chimney smoke billows over St Petersburg in Russia, the third largest source of emissions after the US and China. Photograph: Sergey Kulikov/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama will move to seal a deal...

"One must not think that these projects will have any reciprocal effect on each other, or influence each other in a negative way," Davutoglu said during a visit...

The Obama administration wants to ‘reset' the relationship with Russia, and that means a new opening. We hope President Obama will make full use of the summit to send a strong message that, no...

(AFP)--Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Friday hit back at a claim by U.S. President Barack Obama that he has one foot in the past, saying that he was "standing firmly on both legs," Interfax...

Russian smokers “lose” the Kurils MOSCOW, June 3 (RIA Novosti) - A new law passed by Japan's parliament calling the south Kuril islands a part of Japan is merely a propaganda move, as Russia has...

MOSCOW (AP) - Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will likely sign a stack of agreements during their Moscow summit, but their chief goal may be for the United States and Russia to stop...

A spokesman for Vladimir Putin said U.S. President Barack Obama would change his views on the Russian prime minister, seen in this May file photo, after meeting...

, which resists fiercely any attempt to equate the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Russia's delegation boycotted the vote on the final day of a week-long session of the OSCE's...