SOCHI MOSCOW - Russia landed two nuclear-capable bombers South Africa on training mission on Wednesday, flight apparently timed to coincide with President Vladimir Putin's opening of Russia- Africa summit designed to increase Russian influence... ..…

From Moscow, Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said talks on Russia’s investment “will begin in the near future” — with no further elaboration on what project(s) Moscow will invest in. . ..…

Then Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, pro- Western leader who established close ties with United States and EU in bid to diminish Moscow's influence on his country, launched offensive to reclaim South Ossetia on the night of August 7-8, 2008. ... Only handful of countries have..…

At around 5 a.m. that same day, another explosion went off in the basement of a brick, eight-story apartment building on Moscow’s Kashirskoye Highway, about 6 kilometers south of the previous blast. ..…

While some Swedes tried to lay siege to Saint Petersburg in 1708 (but the town resisted), Charles XII of Sweden led an army to invade the territories around Smolensk, but ultimately couldn’t take the city, which had always been considered “the key to Moscow”. So Charles and his army headed..…

This weakness South Korean diplomacy is shown in the fact that trade between South Korea and Russia was halved due to US sanctions against Russia after Moscow's of Crimea in 2014 and in the continuing after-effects in South Korea- China relationship due to the deployment on South..…

There were schemes to hammer out separate contracts with ExxonMobil and Shell, which proposed to finance $735 million in shale gas manufacturing along south-west Crimea. . Moscow’s takeover of the Crimea in March 2014, a riposte to Yanukovych’s demise the previous month, was consequently..…

Russian Beriev A-50 airborne warning and control training aircraft flies over Red Square during rehearsal for Victory Day military parade Moscow, Russia, on May 7, 2019 ... South Korea said three Russian military planes, entered South's air identification zone off its coast before A-50..…

Georgian can welcome Russian tourist to his shop or vineyard reject any restoration of diplomatic relations with Moscow while Russian troops remain Abkhazia and South Ossetia. ..…

She highlighted an October 2018 Kremlin round table on a government drive to evict dozens of Roma from the Tula region south of Moscow. ..…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned thousands of Russian tourists vacationing in this South Caucasus nation as one of the reasons Moscow is concerned about what he has called an anti-Russian 'provocation.' . __ . ..…

Moscow has provided Venezuela with military support in the form of military specialists operating in the South American country under contracts for the supply of Russian-made weaponry.. ..…

When Moscow annexes Crimea, Beijing ignores UN arbitration in the South China Sea, or Washington recognizes the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, international law loses to “facts on the ground.” ..…

President Donald Trump called on Moscow to “get out” of the South American country. . Moscow sent military advisers to Venezuela over the weekend amid the escalating political crisis in Venezuela. ..…

Moscow intervened in the South Ossetian breakaway province after Georgian forces invaded. ..…

To say that all of this represented revisionism is not to equate it morally with, say, Beijing’s militarization in the South China Sea or Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and electoral meddling in the United States and Europe. ..…

Both Washington and Moscow placed central importance on South America during the Cold War, which was part of the asymmetric and hybrid war that the two superpowers undertook against each other. ... Beijing has always offered high-level economic assistance through important trade agreements,..…

Armed police detained Dennis Christensen, builder, May 2017 at prayer meeting Oryol, some 200 miles south of Moscow after in the region outlawed Jehovah's Witnesses year earlier.. ..…

He captured the south with its crucial oilfields in recent months. . Haftar traveled to Moscow twice in 2016 seeking political support. ..…

They describe the initiative as a part of Moscow’s efforts to reassert itself in “geopolitical flash points from the Middle East to South Asia to Latin America.  ..…

He held a research fellowship at the Faculty of Law, Higher School of Economics in Moscow and obtained his Masters in International Law from South Asian University, New Delhi. ..…

China, South Africa and Equatorial Guinea voted with Moscow to block the meeting, while nine countries voted in favor of the meeting. ..…

Two other countries who have legally binding agreements with Russia are Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both self-proclaimed republics recognized by only five UN members, including Russia. Moscow guarantees the protection of these republics and they, in turn, are obliged to help Russia in case..…

All this is very alarming,' Lavrov said at his annual news conference in Moscow on Wednesday. . He noted that the US approach to the South American country showed that Washington’s efforts to undermine governments around the world it didn't like were continuing. . ..…

His decision merely to perpetuate and consolidate Moscow's of Georgia's two secessionist regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as Russian protectorates suggests much more limited ambitions.. ..…

Russia in the North, US in the South . Moscow came away with the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula, then a Japanese colony. ..…

This is Moscow’s warning message to Washington. The arrival of Russian bombers in the South American country has angered the U.S. government since it did not expect it. ..…

By thus creating a tense domestic situation in European countries overwhelmed by migration from the south, Moscow enables its local clients (subsidized political parties) to then exploit those political-social tensions against competing local pro-American forces...…

The US National Security Advisor’s Russian agenda and his meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin suggested that Washington will not be rekindling relations with Moscow under the current circumstances. . Bolton’s ensuing trip to the South Caucasus included stops not only in..…

Local branches of two Russian universities—the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University—already operate in the South Caucasus country (Trend, October 11). ..…

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Separately, Syrian army units targeted the positions of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham  terrorist outfit al-Karak and Wadi al-Zaidi areas of Dara'a, located about 90 kilometers south of Damascus, killing many terrorists.. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow is prepared to call on..…

Ankara and Moscow still compete for influence, and their interests still collide, in the Black Sea and the South Caucasus. . ... But they overlook the continued struggle for influence between Moscow and Ankara in the Black Sea and the South Caucasus. ..…

The actions had initially been called by a coalition of the South Korean Workers’ Party and bourgeois currents that opposed the partition. But shortly thereafter — on orders not to embarrass Moscow for its complicity in the division — the South Korean Workers’ Party turned..…

For example, Moscow might well decide to push the Baltic States if the United States became involved in a major skirmish in the South China Sea. . In any case, the war would start on the initiative of either Moscow or Beijing. ..…

Moscow also sought to exploit a gap in EU policy with the “South Stream” project, which would create a transit route for gas between the Western Balkans and Western European countries. ..…

“McCain is everywhere there, when it is something against Moscow,” opined National-Zeitung. . . . All of the affected countries, however, are adamant about completing South Stream, so it is hardly likely that the EU energy commissar will be able to hold back progress for long. ..…

Army Group Center was tasked with taking Moscow, and Army Group South was to attack the agricultural heartland of the Ukraine and move eastward toward the oil-rich Caucasus. ... By December, they had surrounded Leningrad in the north, reached the outskirts of Moscow in the center,..…

Now, however, NATO has promised to admit Ukraine and Georgia, two former Soviet republics that lie not west of Russia, but south of it. The old fear of 'encirclement' has revived in Moscow, and the Russians warn that relations will get very frosty indeed if NATO expands into these countries...…

And even nations that seemed neutral toward or supportive of Russia's actions have balked at joining Moscow recognizing the independence of Georgia's two separatist republics, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. ..…

But Russian troops showed no signs of leaving South Ossetia, pro- Moscow or the province of Abkhazia, where Russian forces seized power plant over the in defiance of the cease-fire. ..…

Japan, China, South Korea and Russia negotiated openings to North Korea including trips by North Korean President Kim Jong Il to Beijing and Moscow and Japan's prime minister to North Korea. ..…

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