West urged to obey rules over Syria

MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad could have avoided the bloody civil war in Syria by responding more quickly to demands for change, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. In comments to Russia's English-language ...

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RIA Novosti 15:52 06/06/2013 PIONERSKY (Kaliningrad region, Russia), June 6 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow insists that all countries with any influence on the situation in Syria, including Iran, should attend an international peace conference despite ...

MOSCOW, June 11 (RIA Novosti) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized the West's double standards in dealing with foreign regimes it has branded as dictatorial, and defended Russia's arms contracts with Syria. Speaking in a recent ...

(CBS News) MOSCOW -- The dictatorship of Syrian President Bashar Assad has now taken several towns from rebels who rose up two years ago. The Obama administration is taking another look at arming the rebels. The Assad regime has survived largely ...

Moscow, June 10, IRNA Iranˈs Ambassador to Russia Seyed Reza Sajjadi said West wants Geneva-2 conference on Syria to fail, and that is why they are opposed to Iranˈs presence in

MOSCOW The story of how three young women won notoriety in Russia as dangerous hooligans, yet won sympathy in the West as provocative performance artists, began on a sunny Saturday in September 2011 with a strangely scripted political moment. That ...

Russia and the West are heading for a collision course as they hash out preconditions for a possible Syrian peace conference. It appears that both sides are locked into a cycle of escalation over the country. Some time this month, several major ...

MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti) Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, is considering quitting a project to develop two blocks off the West African coast, the company's first deputy CEO Vadim Yakovlev said on Friday, referring to ...