OTTAWA, July 10 (Itar-Tass) - Russia is ready to discuss energysecurity with other G8 members, China and India, said Ivan Grachev, the deputy head of the Russian State Duma Energy Committee.

MOSCOW, July 10 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov will on Thursday present his new - eleventh - book. It's called "The KurilSyndrome".

MOSCOW, July 10 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedevreturned to Moscow on Thursday after a weeklong trip that had taken him to Baku, Ashgabad, Astana and Toyako, Natalya Timakova, the pr

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Itar-Tass) - The U.S. Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice believes that Russia's policy in Abkhazia is not useful.

SOCHI, July 10 (Itar-Tass) - The president of the Russian Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev said on Wednesday that the first group ofRussian athletes would leave for the Olympic games in Beijing o

MOSCOW, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The State Duma holds that the summit of the Group of Eight is "a very important stage in the development of the multilateral dialogues of the leading powers of the wo

MOSCOW, July 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Gazprom and Libya's National Oil Corporation have decided to set up a joint venture to modernise and build new oil processing capacities, Gazprom said on Wedn

TEHRAN, July 10 (Itar-Tass) - EU High Representative for the CommonForeign and Security Policy (CFSP) Javier Solana will visit Tehran on July 19 for talks with secretary of Iran's Supreme National

TOYAKO, Japan, July 10 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev acknowledged that he was "pleasantly surprised with the level and depth of debate" with the heads of the main participating co

TOYAKO (Japan), July 10 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has highly assessed the results of the G-8 summit on Hokkaido.