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MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters): Cuban President Raul Castro will visit Russia next year, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, in a new sign that Moscow is reviving a Cold War-era trade and ...

MOSCOW -- Russian authorities, under growing pressure from the global financial crisis, signaled a softening in their once-staunch defense of the ruble's exchange rate. The central bank on Tuesday widened ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will urge NATO allies this week to place Ukraine on a path to alliance membership despite Russian objections and doubts about the ...

Owen Hargreaves may struggle to get his career back on track unless an operation on his left knee is successful. Photograph: Adam Davy/EMPICS Sport/PA Photos Owen Hargreaves' future as a ...

After missing out on the Beijing Olympics, Peter Marshall planned to swim a few more meets, then call it a career. He might want to reconsider. With little training, the ...

President Vladimir Putin has sought to ease fears about his planned talks with other natural gas exporters, saying Russia was not forming a gas cartel. Mr Putin will hold co-operation ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted to the parliament amendments to a law, which will extend the presidential term and the lawmakers' mandate, the Kremlin ...

Nov 11th, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates was traveling to Eastern Europe on Tuesday in a deliberate show of support for Ukraine and the Baltics that also ...

MOSCOW : Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to ease fears about his planned talks Wednesday with other natural gas exporters, saying Russia was not forming a gas cartel. Putin is ...

Russia's central bank signalled yesterday it was prepared to allow a sharp depreciation of the rouble as it lowered the floor at which it would defend the struggling currency, while ...