A Ukrainian nationalist leader on Friday urged his supporters to back Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in this weekend"s presidential poll runoff in a bid to defeat pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych.
The first meeting of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Civil Society Working Group was held in Washington on January 27. The group is part of a larger effort begun last summer by U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to reset relations between the two countries and explore new opportunities for partnership. The two co-chairs of the group are Michael McFaul, special assistant to Obama and senior director for Russian affairs at the National Security Council, and Vladislav Surkov, first deputy chairman of the Russian presidential administration.
MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s state-owned oil company Rosneft is prepared to study all offers to buy new assets, the company"s CEO said on Wednesday.