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Russia sees new nuclear arms treaty by April (AP)

March 9th, 2010

AP - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says a new treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals could be signed within two or three weeks.

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Yukos tells court: Russia sought to destroy us (AP)

March 4th, 2010

Greek judge of the European Court of Human Rights, center, Christos Rozakisat, is seen at the beginning of an hearing on the Yukos versus Russia case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday March 4, 2010. The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday began hearing a complaint against Russia's government by representatives of now-defunct oil giant Yukos, whose jailed founder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, claims authorities illegally drove the company out of business. Others judges are unidentified. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)AP - The Russian government deliberately sought to “destroy” the now-defunct oil giant Yukos for political reasons, a lawyer for the company argued Thursday before the European Court of Human…

US gives Russia back Czar’s stolen medallion (AP)

March 4th, 2010

U.S Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle and a senior member of the mass media department of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office Vladimir Markin, hold the medallion during a ceremony of returning to Russia this valuable artifact, stolen from State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, at the U.S. Ambassador's Spaso House residence in Moscow, Thursday, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - The U.S. Ambassador to Russia returned a stolen silver medallion that belonged to the last Russian czar to Moscow Thursday after it was recovered from an online auction…

Russia moves closer to Iran sanctions over nukes (AP)

March 1st, 2010

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan waits for the start of IAEA's board of governors meeting at Vienna's International Center, on Monday, March 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Russia’s president said Moscow was ready to consider new sanctions on Iran for its nuclear defiance on Monday and the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned…

Tsunami warning lifted; Waves reach Japan, Russia (AP)

February 28th, 2010

Seawater moves upward (from left to right) in the mouth of the Kamo River that flows into the Pacific Ocean at Kamogawa in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, on Sunday Feb. 28, 2010. The tsunami from Chile's deadly earthquake hit Japan's main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. Hawaii and other Pacific islands were also spared. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - The tsunami from Chile’s devastating earthquake hit Japan’s main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert.…

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