RIA Novosti

Desperate Mid-Eastern mediators

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:11:00 GMT

On March 19 the Quartet on the Middle East will meet in Moscow. The meeting, held at the at top level, will be hosted by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and will be attended by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union Catherine Ashton.

Russia, the United States and global problems: Something must change

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:11:00 GMT

U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton has come to Moscow on March 18 for a two-day visit. She will attend a meeting of the Middle East quartet comprising the United States, Russia, the UN and the EU, and also discuss strategic offensive weapons, the missile defense shield, Iran, Afghanistan, and other problems of bilateral concern.

The future of the Russian Air Force: 10 years on

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:56:00 GMT

The Russian Defense Ministry plans to overhaul its air force fleet.

Whales, tuna and the clash of civilizations

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:18:00 GMT

On March 12, Pete Bethune, captain of the Ady Gil, an anti-whaling boat belonging to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was arrested for illegally boarding a Japanese ship.

Mikheil Saakashvili's unholy mockumentary

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:56:00 GMT

It's telling how sparse and neutral Western reporting has been on the Georgian television channel Imedi's spoof news program.

Alexander Shumsky: RFW pinpoints and shows the most interesting samples

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:25:00 GMT

Alexander Shumsky, general producer of Russian Fashion Week (RFW), tells about the crisis in the fashion industry, the buyers’ role and the show’s new format.

Georgia needs help to get better

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:50:00 GMT

Georgia's privately owned Imedi television station caused a nationwide panic with its mock news report.

Russian arms transfers to North Africa: Fuelling an arms race?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:17:00 GMT

New SIPRI data on global arms transfers published today reveal that Russia remains the second largest arms exporter in the world.Although the Asia–Paciﬁc region remained the main destination for Russian arms exports for 2005–2009, accounting for 69 per cent of Russian arms exports, Russia has significantly increased its volume and share of deliveries to North Africa in recent years.

Forbes: Crisis hits only low income earners

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:53:00 GMT

The current global financial and economic crisis once again confirms the fact that during economic upheavals the rich get richer and the poor become even more destitute

Mikhail Gorbachev: the first five years

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:29:00 GMT

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, will celebrate two important anniversaries on March 11 and 15

A Soviet journalist’s recollections of Cuba

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:06:05 GMT

On May 8, Russia and Cuba will mark 50 years since diplomatic ties were established between the two countries. We start a series of stories marking the event with recollections of Leonid Kamynin, a correspondent of Soviet daily Izvestia’s in Cuba in the early 1960s

Buying a ticket to the India of Spirit

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:34:00 GMT

If Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had gone to India six months from now instead of March 11 and 12, he could have celebrated the 10th anniversary of his first visit to New Delhi, which he made as Russian president in October 2000.

Afghan opium in Russia

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:31:00 GMT

At the 53rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Russia is trying, albeit belatedly, to raise global awareness of the need to counter the Afghan drug trade

Patriotism beats special effects

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:42:00 GMT

The results of the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony showed that patriotic cinema is more valued in the U.S. today than innovative cinema, even innovative cinema that is much more successful at the box office.

Indian nuclear energy chief: Russia has an advantage: it has a reactor, others can only show papers.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:14:47 GMT

Our correspondent in India Yevgeny Beryozka talks to the chairman of India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Srikumar Banerjee about prospects of cooperation between the two countries in the lucrative sector.

Indian nuclear energy chief: Russia has an advantage: it has a reactor, others can only show papers

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:14:00 GMT

RIA Novosti's correspondent in India Yevgeny Bezeka talks to the chairman of India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Srikumar Banerjee about prospects of cooperation between the two countries in the lucrative sector.

Military reform in times of crisis

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:32:00 GMT

On March 5, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended an expanded meeting of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow. The focus of this meeting was the ongoing military reform.

The Armenian genocide: A case of selective memory

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:44:00 GMT

A resolution on the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, passed by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, has raised a real storm in international diplomacy.

How are South Ossetia and Abkhazia any different than the Falklands?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:47:00 GMT

Britain and Argentina have renewed their unhealthy diplomatic exchange over the ownership and sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, which Argentineans call the Malvinas.

Ian Bremmer: Iran is ultimately likely to go nuclear as North Korea did

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:54:00 GMT

Ian Bremmer is the president of the Eurasia Group, a New York based think-tank. He is one of the leading American experts on Russia, the Post-Soviet states and Asia. Mr.Bremmer is also the author of "The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?" He gives his assessments of the situation around Iran, the problems in negotiating a new agreement to replace the START Treaty between Russia and the United States as well as his point on the political and energy turf wars in Europe, in an interview with RIA Novosti New York Bureau chief Dmitry Gornostaev.

America more confident with big debt to China

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:29:00 GMT

The event under discussion did not merely concern money and global finances. It had something to do with the world order's "load-bearing" structures. Although this turns out to be a mistake, it has scared many people.

Ukraine's foreign policy: turn to the West, lie to the East

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

The international media are eagerly commenting on a statement made by Viktor Yanukovych during his first visit to Brussels as Ukraine's new president. "Ukraine's relations with NATO will remain unchanged," Yanukovych said on March 1.

Medvedev in France: Mistral-class ships and mutual cultural craving

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:09:00 GMT

Vive la culture! But for a mutual craving for their respective national cultures, relations between Moscow and Paris could cool off more regularly than one might guess.

Afghan drug traffic: A problem for regional countries

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:57:00 GMT

The United States has completed a military operation in Afghanistan's Hilmand Province and is preparing a new operation, in Kandahar. The U.S. says its new strategy in Afghanistan does not emphasize action against drug producers.

Bitter lessons of the Vancouver games

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:45:00 GMT

A ski marathon and the ice hockey finals, which are among the most spectacular winter sports, were held on the last day of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.