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. | Moscow is also calling for the inclusion on this occasion of its trading partner Iran and US ally Saudi Arabia as a counterweight.
Weapons supply Russia, Syria’s most powerful remaining ally, continues to deliver arms to Assad’s regime, but claims that it has no real interest in seeing the president remain in power |
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. | Israel’s Military Intelligence chief has presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with updated information on the turmoil in Syria, a senior Israeli official told Haaretz. The details are unclear, but the intelligence from Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi probably concerns chemical weapons and their use against the rebels in Syria’s civil war. |
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. | Russia and Britain agreed on Friday to work towards a transitional government in Syria, despite acknowledging differences in their approach to the Middle Eastern country’s civil war.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that they had agreed “that as permanent members |
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. | Without hard evidence, American accusations of chemical weapons use in Syria fall short of UN proof standards, says a UN chemical inspector. And in the way proposed, a probe would only result in an Iraqi scenario, the Syrian information minister told RT.
The anti-Assad lobby in the UN is using the chemical weapons scare as a new way to exert political and economic pressure on the Syrian government, the country’s information minister |
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. | The Treasury Department published a list of 18 alleged Russian human rights abusers on Friday, defying the Kremlin’s threats of retaliation.
The list of Russians subject to financial and travel sanctions was required by legislation passed four months ago and named after a Russian whistleblower who died in custody. Russian officials warned that making the list public would inevitably cause “negative developments” in U.S.-Russian relations, and said they were ready to unveil |
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. | “Unfortunately, such an indispensable reaction by the Security Council to this terrorist attack has been once again blocked by the US delegation linking it with other questions,” the office of, Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s envoy to the UN, said.
“We consider unacceptable this search for justifications for |
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. | The fighting came as the United Nations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos visited the country ahead of a U.N. aid conference which aims to raise $1.5 billion for millions of people made homeless, hungry and vulnerable.
In Damascus, the two sides fought around a railway station in the southwestern district of Qadam. Syrian media did not comment on the fighting and restrictions on independent media make |
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. | Armenians from Syria are being transferred to North Azerbaijani territory of Karabakh, where is currently under Armenia’s occupation! Armenians and Kurds have committed crimes against humanity and they have several incidents of genocides against Turks, however, Turkish government, AKP, is helping those criminals to create a country in Turkish lands! North Azerbaijani government turns blind eye and even helps indirectly to the transfer of Armenians to Karabakh, and Kurds to Nakhchivan and other regions of the country! |
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. | A Kurdish arms dealer in Moscow, Aslan Usayan, known as Ded Hasan, who was believed to be a supplier for the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was shot dead in the Russian capital on Wednesday, less than a week after three PKK militants were killed in an office in Paris as the result of an execution-style shooting. |
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. | Despite of repeated statements by a number of international organizations, including the heads of the OSCE Minsk Group to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the need to change the status quo, the deals and words of Russian Federation are contradictoriness, as continuing to supply Armenia with great number of arms and military equipment, thus Russia contributes to maintaining the status quo. |
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. | Prominent leader of the Other Russia opposition movement Eduard Limonov was arrested during protests in Moscow on Monday.
It’s understood around seventy more were detained in the city’s Triumph square. They are part of the Strategy 31 group and demonstrate on the last day of every month to draw attention |
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. | Sales of military aircraft topped the agenda, as Russian President Vladimir Putin met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.
India has agreed to buy dozens |
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. | Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has held the first major news conference of his third presidential term.
During the live, televised event, Putin said he would consider a ban on Americans being able to adopt Russian children, after Russian authorities were prevented from observing |
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. | Russian police have detained four opposition leaders ahead of a banned protest against President Vladamir Putin. The rally was to celebrate the one year anniversary of the biggest ever demonstrations against the regime.
The leftist Sergei Udaltsov and the |
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. | On Monday the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the suspension by Russia the activity of the Gabala radar station (GRS.) The main reason for the denial Russia’s disagreement with the amount of rent for the operation of the station.
The report says: “There were intensive talks between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation on the Gabala radar station. During the negotiations |
