In a flip-flop of geopolitical ties in the region of late, Russia has grown friendlier with Pakistan while the U.S. has warmed up to India.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits New Delhi amid his country's growing closeness with Pakistan, which has irked India.
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“Talking to Russia from a position of strength is meaningless,” he said, speaking of what he called centuries of “deterrence policies.”
Expectations of more stimulus from other global central banks was also lifting markets.
Obama said that the war in Ukraine has to fall out of favor with Russians before leadership changes course.
"NATO is doing all this under the guise of the so-called Russian threat," Alexander Grushko said.
Is Russia readying for a new Cold War? Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that the U.S. is increasing tensions with Moscow.
Putin and his government may try to shore up their popularity by diving further into the Ukraine crisis.
Economists have projected Russia’s economy will shrink by 0.8 percent in 2015. That would cause a recession — the first for Russia since 2009.
Turkey and Russia recorded trade worth $24 billion in the first nine months of 2014, and are aiming for $100 billion by 2020.
While the Russian defense ministry announced its navy was holding drills in the Channel, the French navy denied the claim.
Chinese farmers were warned not to approach the tiger or offer it food.
The six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program between the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan and Russia took place between 2003 and 2007.
Russia’s latest move to beef up its military presence in the Arctic is seen as an effort to safeguard its national interests in the region.
The fall in oil prices is also affecting the Russian economy significantly and led another official to call the sanctions "blackmail."
The Russian president says his country won’t be isolated as a result of economic sanctions over Ukraine.
Six-party talks led to an end of North Korea's nuclear program, but the DPRK pulled out and resumed the program in 2009.
Russia backs the separatists but denies it is directly involved in the conflict in the Donbass region.
After months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, Russia has demanded guarantees that Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO.
Russia said it wants to launch a space station in 2017, but those claims may be more about politics than science.