Russia is planning the evacuation of Russians who are living in Syria. While the Western powers have prevented the confectionary redelivery of three (repaired) old Soviet helicopters to Syria, the country is now filled with modern NATO weapons. After the grouchy joint press conference by Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama is the first serious information about the situation in Syria a message on vedomosti.ru.

• June 22, 2012

The Arab League demanded on Thursday that Russia stop supplying arms to Syria, as a regime onslaught of Homs and its surrounds appeared to stall a Red Cross bid to rescue trapped civilians.

• June 21, 2012

Cyprus will ask Russia for a loan of between €3 billion and €5 billion before the weekend and then request aid from its euro zone partners for its ailing banks, an EU diplomat said.

• June 20, 2012

A Russian court on Wednesday convicted two professors of a St.Petersburg university of handing over missile secrets to China, the latest in a string of espionage cases that reflected underlying tensions between Moscow and Beijing despite declarations of cooperation and friendship.

• June 20, 2012

Talks over Iran’s nuclear energy ambitions have resumed between Iran and the Group 5 +1, in Moscow, according to a source, after earlier reports suggested that they had ended, RIA Novosti reported.

• June 19, 2012

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin jointly warned Iran on Monday it must comply with its nuclear obligations, as talks with Tehran in Moscow ran into trouble.

• June 19, 2012

ISSUE #23
06/18/2012
The European Union (EU) wants to sign the association agreement with Ukraine, the EU commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, Stefan Fule, said during a meeting of the Ukraine-EU interparliamentary committee in Strasbourg on 13 June 2012. At the same time, he added that the EU expected that Ukraine would act in the following three sectors: holding elections in line with international standards; solving the problem of selective justice; and, finally, speeding up the implementation of reforms. READ MORE

• June 19, 2012

Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan will set up a joint container shipping company, Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev told a press conference in Saint Petersburg on 15 June, Kazinform has learned from BelTA.

• June 18, 2012