TBILISI, June 25 (Itar-Tass) - Georgia currently ponders gradual integration with NATO opposing to immediate shift to the Western military alliance’s membership, the Georgian defense minister said

MOSCOW, June 25 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held a telephone conversation to discuss the process of Palestinian-Israeli settlem

PARIS, June 25 (Itar-Tass) - World famous fashion designer Pierre Cardin has been awarded the Russian Order of Friendship - a high state award given to prominent Russian and foreign citizens who

VIENNA, June 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Gazprom has signed a contract defining the rules of laying and operation of the South Stream pipeline in Austria on Tuesday and it will start supplies to Austria via

TEHRAN, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi plans to visit Moscow before the end of July, an organisation representative, Behrouz Kamalvandi

MOSCOW, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - More than half-a-million Ukrainian citizens fleeing besieged towns are being sheltered across the border in southern Russia’s Rostov region, say latest figures from th

MOSCOW, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, will debate on Wednesday on the issue of revoking its previously passed resolution regarding the pos

MOSCOW, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - President Vladimir Putin has appointed Vsevolod Tkachenko plenipotentiary ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ethiopia and a presidential envoy of the Russian Fe

ASTANA, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - Participants in the 18th meeting of the Council of Heads of state-run news agencies from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) states which opened in the Kazakh

MOSCOW, June 23 /ITAR-TASS/.