China and Russia enjoy a strong partnership that precludes any need or desire for competition, a senior Moscow official said at the conclusion of a state visit in Beijing on Tuesday.

• October 20, 2010

President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia announced Tuesday that he would attend next month’s summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Lisbon and left the door open to the possibility of Moscow cooperating with the alliance on a European missile defense shield.

• October 20, 2010

An electronic sign along a busy street posts the outside temperature, the wind strength -- and the radioactivity level.

• October 19, 2010

Russia sought to use a summit starting Monday to cement a greater role in Europe's security and foreign policy _ a shift that France and Germany embrace but that's tougher to sell to the rest of the long-divided continent.

• October 19, 2010

Russian troops have withdrawn from a Georgian town which they had occupied since a bitter war between the two countries in 2008.

• October 19, 2010

Angela Merkel and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev are due to arrive in the French seaside town of Deauville today for a summit on European security hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

• October 18, 2010

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Belarus on October 16 promising President Alyaksandr Lukashenka that Venezuela could fill Belarus's oil refineries "for the next 200 years."

• October 18, 2010

President Hugo Chavez, on his ninth visit to Russia in eight years, says he wants to reduce dependence on oil and gas. No details on cost or time are disclosed.

• October 16, 2010