NATO headquarters in the city of Rostock, in East Germany: The Russian FM summons the German ambassador

Moscow demands from Berlin an immediate explanation for the violation of the Treaty on the Final Agreement with respect to Germany of 1990. From the Russian Foreign Ministry they indicate that the decision to establish a NATO headquarters in the city of Rostock, in East Germany, "violates the spirit and the letter of the treaty".

Moscow Wants Karabakh to Revert Back to Its Soviet Status | Asbarez.com

The status of Nagorno-Karabakh will be determined after establishing the rights of all categories of the region’s population, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during an online press conference on Thursday, reported News.ru.

Istanbul attackers ‘all from ex-USSR’

THE Istanbul bombers now known to be from the former USSR were captured smiling in CCTV footage, moments before the attack on Ataturk airport.

Armenia’s president orders to work out mutual military alliance treaty with Karabakh

Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsian has ordered the foreign ministry to "draft a treaty on mutual military assistance with Nagorno-Karabakh," he said on Saturday at the country’s National Security Council meeting devoted to escalation of tensions in the region.

Newly Declassified Report Reveals in 1983 World Was on Brink of Nuclear War

A recently declassified report, known as '1983 War Scare,' has revealed yet another episode of how close the world came to the brink of a nuclear disaster: at the dusk of the Cold War the two major nuclear powers, US and USSR, were dangerously near to all-out war.

Upper house to discuss recognizing Crimea transfer to Ukraine in 1954 illegal (Valentina Matviyenko)

Chairperson of Russia’s Federation Council (upper house) Valentina Matviyenko said on Tuesday she is hopeful that a draft law to recognize the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 as illegal will be discussed at the spring session.

Ukraine's prime minister say Russia's goal is to destroy Ukraine and to recreate USSR

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk  has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's goal is to destroy Ukraine as an independent country and to restore the Soviet Union
             
Speaking at a conference in Kiev attended by European and Ukrainian lawmakers and business leaders, Mr Yatseniuk also praised a new wave of economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union and the United States.

Havana thanks Russia for writing off Cuba's debts to USSR (Raul Castro)

Cuban Council of State and Council of Ministers President Raul Castro thanks Russia and the Russian leadership for writing off Cuba's debts it accumulated in 40 years of its cooperation with the Soviet Union.

"The Russian government's decision to cancel [our] debts after so many years of cooperation shows goodwill that the Russian people feel toward us," Castro said following negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Havana.

Following some decline in the 1990s, "cooperation [between Cuba and Russia] started developing at the beginning of the new century, and we can see a result of this today," Castro said.

Etats-Unis/espionnage: Moscou dément toute livraison des sociétés impliquées

Les sociétés citées par les Etats-Unis dans le cadre d'une affaire d'espionnage industriel n'ont jamais rien livré au complexe militaro-industriel russe, a déclaré vendredi aux journalistes le vice-premier ministre russe Dmitri Rogozine.

"Aucune des sociétés et des personnes citées ne nous ont jamais livré quoi que ce soit", a souligné le vice-premier ministre russe chargé du complexe militaro-industriel.