MOSCOW, March 7 (Itar-Tass) - Food Price Index, a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities, jumped the sharpest since mid-2012 in February 2014, says th

BEIJING, March 7 (Itar-Tass) - China has spoken out to oppose sanction threats in international relations in comments to reporters on events in Ukraine.

TOKYO, March 7 (Itar-Tass) - The Japanese government is ready to provide financial assistance to Ukraine and will determine the concrete amount of this aid on the basis of consultations with the In

VLADIVOSTOK, March 7 (Itar-Tass) - World-famous Russian traveller Fyodor Konyukhov, who has being rowing on his solo voyage across the Pacific for two-and-a-half months, has covered 4,500 miles, th

BISHKEK, October 28 (Itar-Tass) - Kyrgyzstan's presidential election
will be watched by 725 international observers from 47 organisations and

BAKU, October 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Azerbaijan and Turkey will build a new
pipeline for transporting growing volumes of Azerbaijani gas to European

MOSCOW, October 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will
address a meeting of the Russian Chamber of Industry and Commerce on
Friday.

MOSCOW, October 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Several countries are expected on
Friday to join the new convention of the Council of Europe to combat
counterfeit medicines.

MOSCOW, October 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Two Moscow courts are scheduled on
Friday to pass the sentences to a group of ethnic Caucasians who killed a

BRUSSELS, October 28 (Itar-Tass) -- The justice and home ministers of
the Council of the European Union gave a green light to a potential