SHANGHAI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak and head of the Chinese National Energy Administration (NEA) Wu Xinxiong have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the sphe

MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - A regular round of discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia will be held in Geneva on June 17-18, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

SHANGHAI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, at the first session of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia /CICA/ has suggested creating an

SHANGHAI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that cooperation by Russia and Iran will continue despite what he described as turbulence over Iran.

SYDNEY, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced expansion of the regime of sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian natural persons and legal entities.

SHANGHAI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - A new security architecture should be created in Asia, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a plenary meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building

SHANGHAI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Asian-Pacific region needs a security architecture ensuring equal interaction and ruling out any exclusive blocs.

MOSCOW, May 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russian-Indian relations will successfully develop under the newly elected Indian government, Russian experts said during a video conference Moscow-New Delhi on the res

BRUSSELS, May 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission have finally agreed to meet for gas talks in Berlin on May 26.

SHANGHAI, May 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's state energy giant Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) go ahead with talks on a gas contract and continue searching for a compromise,