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.

TOYAKO (Japan), July 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has fulfilled itsobligations to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions of its own and even of other states, Director of the Federal Service for Hydrometeoro

TOYAKO (Japan), July 8 (Itar-Tass) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed interest of Britain and the European Union as a whole in cooperation with Russia in Middle East settlement, t

TOYAKO (Japan), July 8 (Itar-Tass) - Leaders of the G8 states will adopt a document with obligations to reduce by half the greenhouse gasemissions into the atmosphere, the chief of the Russian Fede

TOYAKO, July 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that despite problems in the Russian-British relations, the twocountries' interaction in the economic sphere is developing succes