Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been in the headlines, first for describing his predecessor Joseph Stalin as a "totalitarian dictator" and then for making the first state visit to Syria by a Kremlin chief since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

• May 14, 2010

China and other key world powers, except the US, have keen national interests at stake as far as Teheran is concerned

• May 14, 2010

More than 300 Romanian, U.S., Ukrainian and Macedonian troops will participate from May 17-June 24 in 'the Black Sea Rotational Force 2010' drill organized in eastern Romania, according to a news release on Thurday from the Romanian Navy General Staff.

• May 14, 2010

Russia is hoping its relations with Britain will get better when the new government takes office. Both experts and politicians do forecast an eventual warming in bilateral relations, but at the same time they warn that an early breakthrough is unlikely.

• May 14, 2010

A supposedly confidential Foreign Ministry document — an intentional leak that was published on Russian Newsweek’s web site this week — has created a stir among diplomats and journalists. Many saw it as a revelation or a signal of a significant and welcome policy shift toward the West. But in reality, this is quite an overstatement.

• May 14, 2010

Turkey is still considering whether its prime minister should go to Iran for joint talks with Brazil's president over Tehran's nuclear program, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Thursday.

• May 14, 2010

Turkey will host a high-level international conference on Somalia next week to seek ways to restore stability to one of the world’s poorest countries.

• May 14, 2010

His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday received Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip as the two countries finalised a "historic" oil shale agreement.

• May 13, 2010