THE HAGUE, July 23 (Itar-Tass) - Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz is embarking on a working trip to Belgrade on Tuesday.

BEIJING, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - China hopes that Nepal's first president Ram Baran Yadav can ensure political stability and economic development of the country, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Li

LONDON, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - The former leader of Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, the extradition of which is demanded by the HagueTribunal, has been arrested, the British satellite television ch

MOSCOW, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday will hold talks with President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, the Kremlin press service reported.

BEIJING, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is winding up his visit to Beijing and is going to Singapore on Tuesday where on July 23-24 he will take part in events within

MOSCOW, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - Conflict between Georgia's centralgovernment and the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which formally still remain parts of the Georgian sovereign

MOSCOW, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Uzbekistan before November to discuss the activation of trade and economic relations.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - The administration of Russia'sPrimorye and a delegation from the Japanese prefecture Shimane, which is in Russia for a friendly visit, confirmed on Monday their i

BEIJING, July 21 (Itar-Tass) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will head the team of Russian rooters at the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a

BEIJING, July 21 (Itar-Tass) - The additional protocol-description of the Russian-Chinese state border in its eastern part, signed on Monday, means "that the state border has been fully and finally