‘Russia will deliver Gorshkov on time’

Tuesday 14 August '07

Indian ambassador to Moscow, Kanwal Sibal said here today heavy aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, being modernised at Shevmash shipyard...

Missile lands in Georgia, Russia says not ours

Wednesday 8 August '07

Georgian Foreign Ministry summoned Tuesday the Russian ambassador to Tbilisi, Vyacheslav Kovalenko and handed over a note of protest...

Russia deploys modern air defence missiles around Moscow

Tuesday 7 August '07

Russia deployed on Monday the first regiment equipped with the state-of-the-art S-400 Triumph air defence missiles at a ceremony in the town of Elektrostal

Russia launches serial missile production

Monday 6 August '07

Russia has decided to launch production of a submarine-based intercontinental ballistic missile after a recent successful test, Russia's navy chief said on Sunday.

Russian serial killer batters 62 to fill ‘chessboard’

Saturday 4 August '07

Known as the “Bitsa maniac” in the Russian capital, Alexander Pichushkin has confessed to having brutally murdered 62 people to fill squares on his “imaginary chessboard”.

Litvinenko: UK yet to give proof, says Russia

Tuesday 24 July '07

Russia on Monday reiterated its demand, asking Britain to transfer the criminal file of businessman Andrei Lugovoi.

Putin appoints aide as Russian Security Council secretary

Monday 23 July '07

President Vladimir Putin this week appointed Col General Valentin Sobolev as the acting secretary to the powerful Russian Security Council

Russia pulls out of arms-control treaty

Sunday 15 July '07

President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree pulling Russia out of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday.

NATO expansion a relapse to Cold War era: Russia

Friday 6 July '07

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said NATO’s enlargement near Russian borders is like a relapse to the Cold War.

Russia rebuts US democracy charge

Sunday 1 July '07

On the eve of President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US counterpart George W Bush in Kennebunkport...

Putin stresses ties with NATO

Wednesday 27 June '07

Weeks after high-pitched rhetoric against US plans to deploy a national missile shield in Europe and NATO’s reluctance to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

NATO tells Russia to send experts to Poland, check shield

Tuesday 26 June '07

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Monday proposed to Russia the idea of sending experts to Poland to see whether the ten interceptor missiles to be deployed there under the US national missile defence are targeted at Russia.

Russia warns US over missile shield again

Friday 22 June '07

Russia on Thursday warned the United States that it will stop cooperating with NATO in developing a missile defence system, if this programme is merged with US missile defence...

Communist leader Zyuganov to run for Russian President

Thursday 21 June '07

Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov on Wednesday announced his candidacy for the presidential elections to be held on March 9, 2008.

Third name confounds Putin succession issue

Monday 18 June '07

A Surpise possible successor to Russian President Vladimir Putin may surface soon, a senior-level presidential aide Igor Shuvalov has said. Currently, two First Deputy Prime...

Russia probes claim spy worked for MI6

Saturday 16 June '07

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB, formerly known as KGB) has opened a criminal espionage investigation into accusations...

Russia probes claim spy worked for MI6

Saturday 16 June '07

Russia's Federal Security Service has opened a criminal espionage investigation into accusations that murdered ex-KGB

Russia officers get jail for killing Chechens

Friday 15 June '07

In A rare case of conviction for Russian troops fighting terrorists in Chechnya, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia on Thursday...

Putin drops in at Solzhenitsyn’s home to hand over award

Wednesday 13 June '07

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited ailing Russian Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Troitse-Lykovo outside Moscow

Russia asks US to stop work on Europe shield

Sunday 10 June '07

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday called on the United States to freeze work on the planned deployment of a missile...

Russia asks US to stop work on Europe shield

Sunday 10 June '07

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday called on the United States to freeze work on the planned deployment of a missile defence....

Putin proposal shows our drive to solve security crisis: Russia

Saturday 9 June '07

Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said here today that President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to the United States to jointly...

Kim pushing ahead with missile programme : Russia

Friday 8 June '07

Russia today said new test-firings of short-range missiles by North Korea on Thursday

Ahead of G-8, Putin warns US on missile defence

Tuesday 5 June '07

Just days before Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to the G-8 summit in Germany, he warned that Moscow could take “retaliatory steps” if the US proceeds

Russia accuses Britain of politicising spy death case

Saturday 2 June '07

The British embassy in Moscow today dismissed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s accusation that London was politicising