Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made a surprise visit to Chechnya on Monday after a series of attacks in the troubled North Caucasus region, where the Kremlin is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency.

• June 16, 2010

Viewed from Washington, Turkey and Iran are strange bedfellows. One is a NATO member with a Constitution that mandates secularism, and the other, an Islamic republic whose nuclear program has been one of the most vexing foreign policy problems for the United States in recent years.

• June 14, 2010

UN sanctions will not hurt Russia's S-300 missile supplies to Iran nor the states' nuclear cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday after claims the deal would be frozen.

• June 12, 2010

Russian security forces have captured an alleged member of a group of anti-police vigilantes suspected of being behind a series of attacks on police in the far eastern Primorye region.

• June 11, 2010

President Hu Jintao and his Uzbek counterpart pledged on Wednesday to jointly combat terrorism, a major concern for both countries.

• June 10, 2010

Russia and Georgia held tense talks on Tuesday on security and humanitarian issues unresolved since their 2008 war, differing over whether a new agreement is needed on the non-use of force.

• June 10, 2010

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that Russia will ensure the highest standards of security at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

• June 10, 2010

Suspected militants have attacked a NATO convoy outside Pakistan's capital Islamabad, killing at least seven people. The convoy was carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. But similar attacks in the past have been blamed on the Taliban.

• June 10, 2010