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BRUSSELS  – NATO countries expressed concern Wednesday about reports that Russia plans to set up bases in Russian-backed breakaway territories in Georgia, a NATO spokesman said. Representatives of the 26 NATO states discussed the issue on Wednesday and alliance Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will raise it with Russian Deputy …

NAZRAN, Russia  – A new president in Russia’s mainly Muslim Ingushetia region has taken the heat out of a simmering rebellion by restoring some trust in the regional authorities. Although violence still scars Ingushetia, residents say it has decreased since Yunus-Bek Yevkurov replaced former secret police officer Murat Zyazikov in …

MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – The Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers will meet on Saturday to try to resolve a gas row that has cut back supplies to a freezing Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated European calls for a quick to the two countries’ arguments over gas debts and prices, saying …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian envoy to Russia said delays in completion of Iran’s first nuclear plant in the southern city of Bushehr are not only Russia’s fault. Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi stressed that Russia is committed to complete the plant, despite the pressure on Moscow to halt the project, the Islamic …

Russian invaders brutally torture and kill Chechen hostages. Human rights organizations have long ago and unambiguously, by factual evidence, proved that the Russian authorities in the person of FSB, GRU, Interior Ministry, and other so-called “power structures” are engaged in brutal tortures and monstrous killings with demonstrative brutality of Chechen …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Construction on a pipeline to deliver petrol and diesel fuel from Iran to Armenia will begin next year, Armenia’s Energy Minister Armen Movsisian said today “Armenia will receive petrol and diesel fuel from the oil refinery located in the Iranian city of Tabriz through the pipeline, construction of …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The vice chairman of Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom said his country could not limit its output under OPEC-style quotas. “The mechanism of OPEC couldn’t be applicable straight-forwardly to the Russian Federation,” AFP quoted Alexander Medvedev as saying in a press conference in Paris on Friday. “We are …

GYUMRI, Armenia (Reuters) – Zhora Azizyan felt lucky when he was granted temporary housing made of concrete blocks rather than the railway cars given to others after the earthquake that devastated northwestern Armenia. But that was 1988. Now he struggles to paper over the cracks in the walls, and the …

Alexiy II has been laying in state at his residence near Moscow following his sudden death on Friday. Today, the late Patriarch of All Russia is expected to be taken through the capital to be lain in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour after 18 years as head of Russia’s …

TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili urged the West Tuesday not to return to “business as usual” with Russia without holding it to account for its five-day war with his country in August.   He made the appeal in an article in the Wall Street Journal, timed to coincide …