Italy's Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi is confirming his interest in seeing more cooperation between Italy's Eni energy company and Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom. ... Russian President Vladimir Putin also said at a news conference with Berlusconi on Friday that Gazprom...
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Brussels (AFP) Aug 18, 2008 - Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili will hold bilateral tallks with NATO counterparts on Tuesday, on the sidelines of an Alliance meeting on the Georgia-Russia conflict, officials said...
By RFE/RL Abkhaz lawmakers have approved the text of an independence appeal submitted by the unrecognized republic's de facto president, Sergei Bagapsh. In view of recent events in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the people of...
Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Warsaw, Poland (AHN) - U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski signed here on Wednesday an official agreement to base U.S. missile interceptors in...
BEIJING (AP) - The Beijing Olympics have left the world's human rights groups frustrated and angry - convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and adamant that future hosts like Russia must be held to a...