MOSCOW, November 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia views its nuclear arsenal as deterrence, but may deliver a preventive strike in a critical situation, according to the draft of a new national military doc

MOSCOW, November 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet on Friday German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to discuss major international

SYMFEROPOL, November 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has arrived with a two-day working visit to Ukraine on Thursday.

KIEV, November 19 (Itar-Tass) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko
will on Thursday meet his Georgian counterpart Mikhail Saakashvili in Kiev.

MOSCOW, November 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin will on Thursday start a two-day visit to Ukraine. He and Ukraine's

MARIBOR, Slovenia, November 19 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian national
football team has failed to reach the final of the 2010 football
championship to be held in South Africa.

ASHGABAT, November 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Prospects for developing

BISHKEK, November 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Ex-president of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev need not fear arrest if he returns to the country, Kyrgyzstani prosecutor-general Elmurza Satybaldiyev told a news confer

MOSCOW, November 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Defense Minister Anatoly

STOCKHOLM, November 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev, who arrived here on Tuesday for a working visit and who is to