The United States and Russia have agreed on the core of a new strategic arms reduction deal to replace the expired START 1 treaty and need only a few final touches to conclude the talks.
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 02:25 GMT
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is trying to leave the country and seek exile in Mexico.
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 03:21 GMT
Russia and Belarus will discuss on Thursday further cooperation in energy, trade and military spheres at a session of the ruling body of the union state the two ex-Soviet neighbors are trying to build.
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 04:40 GMT
The death toll from Saturday's nightclub fire in the Russian Urals city of Perm has reached 128.
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 04:50 GMT
The captain of a poaching vessel attempted to escape border guards by scuttling his ship, the sakhalin.info news portal has said.
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 06:35 GMT
Militants in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia bombed a private home instead of their intended target of a military vehicle, a local police spokesman said on Thursday.
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 07:06 GMT
The countries of the CIS, which are gradually being converted into a cordon sanitaire, are called upon to restrain Russian geopolitical ambitions, in much the same way, his use of this term implies, that Europeans sought in the years before World War II to surround Soviet Russia with a similar cordon. </p>
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 07:19 GMT
Russia, as a result of the collapse of much of its heavy industry in the 1990s, owns one of the largest stocks of credits to offset carbon emissions.
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 07:22 GMT
China and Russia held the fourth round of strategic security consultations in Beijing. Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev attended the consultation meeting.
// Dec. 10, 2009 - 07:26 GMT