Uzbek President Islam Karimov set aside disputes with Russia that have strained relations during his visit at the Kremlin, stressing the two countries’ shared concern about instability in Kyrgyzstan.

• April 28, 2010

Russia publishes once-secret files about the 1940 Katyn massacre of Poles, amid a warming in Polish-Russian relations.

• April 28, 2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed creating a nuclear power holding company with Ukraine as the two former Soviet republics rebuild ties.

• April 28, 2010

Pakistan may not have been able to secure a nuclear deal from Washington, but it seems to have sewn up an agreement for building additional reactors with longtime ally China.

• April 28, 2010

Almazbek Atambayev, deputy head of the interim Kyrgyz government, thanked Russia on Monday for detaining and extraditing the country's former interior minister, Moldomusa Kongantiyev.

• April 28, 2010

Moscow and Oslo have struck a deal that equally divides the long-contested Barents Sea between them. The agreement ends decades of negotiation over the inhospitable area believed to be rich in oil and gas deposits.

• April 28, 2010

Italy and Russia signed on Monday an important agreement of cooperation in the nuclear sector aimed at exchanging technological know-how and building new power plants.

• April 27, 2010

Moscow and Oslo have reached an agreement on the demarcation of maritime borders after almost 40 years of talks.

• April 27, 2010