NIZHNY NOVGOROD, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Iraqi Ambassador to Russia Shafiq Muhsin, who is staying in Nizhny Novgorod, has said his country is interested in expanding co-operation with Russia in the sph

MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland discussed on Tuesday CE’s possible contribution to reform of Ukra

MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the RF government to work out a long-term strategy of sustainable development of Russia’s rural territories.

SLAVYANSK, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Ten civilians and representatives of people’s defence force were killed and around 25 people were wounded in a Ukrainian punitive operation in the eastern Ukrainian c

KIEV, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Foreign experts will participate in an investigation into riots in Ukraine’s Odessa on May 2, in which 46 people were killed and more than 200 were injured, parliament-app

UNITED NATIONS, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Russia is not ready to give up nuclear weapons as at the present stage it is a legitimate means of deterrence and protection of the national interests, the direc

BRUSSELS, May 6 (Itar-Tass) - Two new rounds of three-party talks on gas issues between representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the European Union will be held in the middle and at the end of May, E

MOSCOW, May 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russian and Kazakh oil exports via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) have increased year on year by 31 percent to 3.477 million tonnes in April, CPC said on Monday.<

KIEV, May 5 (Itar-Tass) - An active stage of Ukrainian law enforcement operation resumed in the east of the country on Monday.

TEHRAN, May 5 (Itar-Tass) - U.N.