MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sergei Lavrov meets his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini here on

BEIJING, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a working visit to China on July 21-22, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said on Tuesday.

TOKYO, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Japan is going to develop investmentcooperation with countries of the Middle East and Central Asia, Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga said before his week-long

BISHKEK, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Another outbreak of anthrax has been registered in Kyrgyzstan, an emergencies ministry official told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - The commemoration of Koreans who fell victim of Japanese militarism during the Second World War, passed in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative centre of t

LONDON, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will join the list of the world five fastest developing economies by 2050, according to a recent report by American bank Goldman Sachs.

MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic will arrive for a working visit in Moscow on July 17 to discuss Kosovo with Russian leaders, a source at the Serbian embassy in R

MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) --Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a government meeting on economic issues on Monday that the Russian economy had become more resistant to shocks in world mark

ASHGABAT, July 15 (Itar-Tass) - Turkmenistan has stressed the"priority of the Caspian gas pipeline project Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Russia" and announced its implementation launch.

ASTANA, July 15 (Itar-Tass) - President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan of the United Arab Emirates will have talks with Kazakhstani leaders on the development of cooperation between the two cou