Moscow reluctant to tackle Russia's smoking problem International Herald Tribune | : On a recent summer evening, Nikolai Yashkin lighted a cigarette to relax after a long day of work as a courier. Yashkin, 58, said he had been smoking since he was a boy, and he made it clear that cigarettes were as much a part of him as the tattoo of the title of a Soviet love song on his arm. |...
Cheney warns Russia to reverse course International Herald Tribune | : Vice President Dick Cheney has denounced Russia's war against Georgia as evidence of a pattern of "troublesome and unhelpful actions" that threatened peace from Central Asia to the Middle East to Europe. | Cheney, speaking Saturday at an international conference beside Lake Como, said that Russi...
Moscow reluctant to tackle Russia's smoking problem International Herald Tribune | : On a recent summer evening, Nikolai Yashkin lighted a cigarette to relax after a long day of work as a courier. Yashkin, 58, said he had been smoking since he was a boy, and he made it clear that cigarettes were as much a part of him as the tatto...
US holds off on civilian nuclear pact with Russia The Guardian | AP Photo ALG102By MATTHEW LEE | Associated Press Writer | ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sai...
Kremlin-watchers warn of direct U.S.-Russia clash The State By TOM LASSETER - McClatchy Newspapers | MOSCOW -- | In the aftermath of last month's war between Russia and U.S.-backed Georgia, Kremlin-watchers in Moscow are worried that Russia and America are closer to direct confrontation than at any point sinc...
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Russia to carry out naval manoeuvres off Venezuela The Times of India | 7 Sep 2008, 0540 hrs IST,AFP CARACAS: In a military first certain to raise eyebrows in the United States, Russia will carry out joint na...
Rice: 'Time isn't right for the Russia agreement' San Diego ALGIERS, Algeria - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Ric...
Russia accuses West of provocation in Georgia The Boston Globe | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the United States on Saturday of provoking Moscow by using warships to deliver relief aid to its ally Georgia, with w...
U.S. may scrap nuclear accord with Russia Seattle Times | ALGIERS, Algeria - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday. | Her comment increased speculation that President ...
A month on, Georgia crisis becomes US-Russia struggle: analysts The Times of India | | MOSCOW: "The world changed after August 8 this year." | That, at least, is Russia's view -- a view articulated again in the Kremlin during the weekend by President Dmitry Medvedev. And ...
Russia warns that it will use its might The Boston Globe | MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev again put the West on notice that Moscow will exert its military and economic might with new determination, saying yesterday that "Russia is a nation to be reckoned with" after its war with Georgia. | With a US Na...
Georgia will be in our Nato alliance, Cheney warns Moscow The Times | Dick Cheney delivered a bellicose warning to Russia yesterday during a brief visit to war-torn Georgia, promising that America's small Caucasus ally would one day join the Nato alliance . | In combative mood, the US Vice-President stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Mikhail Saakashvili, the Georgian President, and bluntly reinforced Russia's worst fe...
Rice flies in to Tbilisi as Kremlin shatters Georgia truce London Evening Standard | America last night warned Russia that its actions in Georgia risk undermining relations with the West 'for years to come'. | The warning from U.S. defence secretary Robert Gates came as Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrived in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi to hand a formal ceasefire agreement to the country's embattled president, Mikhail S...
