President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation Sunday into allegations of fraud in Russia’s parliamentary election, one day after tens of thousands of protesters demanded it be annulled and rerun. (more)
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama heads into a day of heavy diplomacy in his native Hawaii with some of the United States’ most important and complicated allies, the start of a nine-day tour of the crucial and growing Asia-Pacific region. (more)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill that officially classifies beer as alcoholic. (more)
As the political differences between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev widen into a visible public rift, and each continues to insist on the wish to run for president in polls next year, some Russians are mulling a prospect that sounded like a fantasy just a few weeks ago: What if they faced off against each other in an open and fair election? (more)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin posted this statement on his official website on March 21: (more)
A Kremlin source called Muammar Gaddafi a “living political corpse” and said on Tuesday the Libyan leader should step down. (more)
Russia under prime minister Vladimir Putin is a sham democracy, Mikhail Gorbachev has said in his harshest criticism yet of the ruling regime. (more)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday signed the ratification of a nuclear arms cut pact with the United States, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s efforts to reset ties with Moscow. (more)
DAVOS (Switzerland) – RUSSIA’S President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday he thought the release of leaked US diplomatic cables by the WikiLeaks website could have a positive effect on international diplomacy. (more)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s upper house of parliament unanimously ratified the New START nuclear arms pact with the United States on Wednesday, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s efforts to “reset” ties with Moscow. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (dih-MEE’-tree med-VYEH’-dyev) to express his condolences for a suicide bombing at Russia’s busiest airport. (more)
Apparently Russia understands basic economics and self-control better than the Obama administration. (more)
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has Hawaiian vacation plans for plenty of private time with his family, walks on the beach, rounds of golf and leisure reading. (more)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is pulling out the pop culture references as he tries to push ratification of the New START nuclear arms treaty through the Senate. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama lobbied senators by phone Monday to back an arms treaty with Russia that he’s called a national security imperative, as a top Senate Democrat conceded “house by house combat” would be needed to win enough GOP votes to prevail. (more)
Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We’re being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that the Senate must ratify because it’s “urgent.” Urgent? If that had been the case, why didn’t Mr. Reid bring the measure up last summer? Or last fall? (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s call for a world without nuclear weapons divided Republicans and Democrats on Friday as the Senate slogged through debate on a new arms control treaty with Russia. (more)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is warning that his country will find it necessary to build up its nuclear forces, if the United State’s doesn’t ratify a new arms reduction treaty. (more)
Russia’s president devoted the largest part of his annual State of Russia speech to reversing Russia’s population decline. (more)
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that a weapons treaty with Russia that has been stalled due to Republican objections must pass before the end of the year, and predicted the Senate will indeed ratify it. (more)
























