An Iranian official says the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency will visit Iran soon for further talks on the inspection of Iran's nuclear facilities.

• September 15, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow will help Tajikistan ensure stability after recent violence there left more than 20 dead, stoking fresh fears of unrest in the former Soviet state.

• September 15, 2015

Russia's biggest annual military exercises are under way.

• September 15, 2015

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) has decided to close its Russian operations, apart from transaction banking services, two financial sources told Reuters on Monday.

• September 14, 2015

Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield at the center of a military buildup in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Monday, adding that the intentions of Moscow's latest deployment of heavy military equipment were unclear.

• September 14, 2015

Austria said on Monday it would dispatch the armed forces to help impose additional controls on its eastern border, belatedly following Germany's example as thousands of migrants streamed across its frontier from Hungary on foot.

• September 14, 2015

Issue # 72
09/14/2015
The foreign ministers of the Normandy Four countries, including Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia, met in Berlin on 12 September 2015. According to an Interfax-Ukraine report, all participants in the meeting agreed that it was necessary to reach and implement an agreement on the withdrawal of light and heavy weapons from the line of contact as soon as possible. READ MORE

• September 14, 2015

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts in Berlin on Saturday that "significant progress" had been made towards a resolution of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow.

• September 13, 2015