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Middle East Quartet Meets as Gaza Toll Hits 23

Matt Cantor — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:28:04 CDT

With 23 Palestinians now dead in the latest Gaza conflict , the Middle East Quartet is meeting for the first time in six months in New York. Hillary Clinton, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and EU diplomat Baroness Ashton will discuss the growing violence after Israeli air...

Syria Still Pounding Homs as Russia Arrives

Polly Davis Doig — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:10:43 CST

Syria's regime is raining devastation down on Homs for a fourth day today, with the Telegraph reporting that hundreds of shells are hitting the city with each passing hour. Rebels there have been rendered defensively helpless, incapable of responding with anything more than gunshots. "We can't count all the bodies...

New START Treaty Goes Into Effect

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:07:24 CST

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exchanged ratification papers for the New START treaty with her Russian counterpart at a Munich conference today, sealing the deal on the nuclear arms treaty that limits the number of atomic warheads the former Cold War foes can possess and allows them to inspect each...

Dems Stonewall GOP's Attempts to Alter START

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:21:09 CST

Senate Democrats have turned back Republican efforts to change a new arms control treaty with Russia. By a vote of 64-33, the Senate rejected a measure that would have increased the number of weapons inspectors. If adopted, the amendment would have effectively killed the treaty, forcing US and Russian officials...

Russia Puts Kibosh on Iranian Nuclear Sanctions

Kevin Spak — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:51:55 CDT

Russia wouldn’t support another round of tough UN sanctions against Iran, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday, throwing a major wrench into Barack Obama’s Middle East strategy. It’s also a sign that Obama’s plan to “reset” relations with Moscow is on the rocks. “We’re pretty disappointed with the Russian position...

Clinton Predicts Russia Arms Treaty

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:52:00 CST

Hillary Clinton, declaring a fresh start for relations with Russia, has predicted that the two nations would complete a new arms reduction treaty by year-end and find common ground on other major issues as well, the AP reports. Upbeat and often smiling, both Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

Russia Returns Favor, Cuts Off NATO Council

Harry Kimball — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:41:01 CDT

Russia formally suspended military cooperation with NATO today over Georgia, the Guardian reports, a move affecting operations in Afghanistan and the Mediterranean. “Cooperation had really already been ended with the Russians,” a US official said, per an alliance declaration earlier in the week. If NATO supports “the bankrupt Saakashvili regime...

US Chooses Georgia Over Russia at Its Own Risk

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:29:02 CDT

The US should quit blaming Russia for starting the war in Georgia, writes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Wall Street Journal , and think hard before backing Tbilisi to the detriment of relations with Moscow. Georgia's "ruthless military assault" in South Ossetia forced the hand of Russia. "When the...

No Progress on Missile Deal After Rice's Russia Visit

Rob Quinn — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:09:43 CDT

Moscow talks between top US diplomats and their Russian counterparts haven't edged the two sides any closer to deals on a proposed US missile shield in Eastern Europe and a nuclear-arms reduction treaty, the Financial Times reports. Condoleezza Rice heads home empty-handed, but US-Russia relations at least seem to have...