Russia calls for investigating cases of chemical weapons use in SyriaMoscow is calling for an immediate investigation into all cases of chemical weapons use in Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a news conference on the NATO-Russia Council meeting on Tuesday.12:45 24.04.2013
Security agents can now be stationed in foreign countries on a permanent basisThe State Duma has adopted a presidential bill in the second and third readings which authorizes the Federal Security Service to station its employees in other countries on a permanent basis.11:54 24.04.2013
Foreign Ministry only uses official data on Russians arrested abroadThe Foreign Ministry only uses official data about Russian nationals detained or arrested abroad. To date, there are 51 such Russians in Turkey and 97 in Poland, the ministry's spokesperson Alexander Lukashevich said at a briefing on Friday.13:43 19.04.2013
Moscow, Washington agree regular dialogue on adoptionsRussia and the United States have agreed to establish regular dialogue on the protection of rights of Russian children adopted by US families, says Konstantin Dolgov, the human rights ombudsman for the Russian Foreign Ministry.09:46 18.04.2013
Nuclear threats and international law: a complicated relationshipIf North Korea makes good on its threats of nuclear warfare, international law will likely be the last thing on anyone’s mind. The nuclear sparring match presently bouncing back and forth the Pacific begs the question: can international law pass muster to the threat of nuclear warfare? In an effort to create a David that could prove formidable in the face of the nuclear giant, the UN and ICJ focused in great depth on this very issue in the direct aftermath of the Cold War.17:56 10.04.2013
Legal aid centers to be set up for Russians in 'problem' countriesThe Foundation to Support and Protect the Rights of Compatriots will set up legal aid centers in the countries where Russian nationals encounter the biggest problems, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.10:21 10.04.2013
Witness at ex-dictator's trial accuses Guatemalan leader of war crimesRetired officer Hugo Leonardo Reyes alleged that President Otto Perez was involved in civil war massacres in his testimony at the genocide trial of ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt.11:19 05.04.2013
Russia-led security group slams 'foreign funded’ protestsProtest movements in former Soviet republics are bankrolled by states seeking to destabilize the situation there, says the head of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).09:37 04.04.2013
UN General Assembly adopts historic Arms Trade TreatyIn a decisive move toward regulating the grey to black markets that have historically surrounded the global arms trade, the UN General Assembly voted by a landslide Tuesday to approve the world’s first comprehensive arms trade treaty.13:09 03.04.2013
Canada may pull out of UN climate change conventionCanada may exit the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Liberal MP David McGuinty was quoted as saying by the Responding to Climate Change website on Friday.15:37 29.03.2013
UN fails once again to produce an arms-trade treatyWidespread optimism that the UN Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty would culminate in the adoption of a binding legal text regulating the international arms market was abruptly derailed Thursday at the hands of Iran, Syria, and North Korea, who asserted concerns that the draft document did little to ensure the protection of their national interests.14:13 29.03.2013
High-ranking Bosnian Serb officials convicted, sentenced by ICTYFormer high-ranking Bosnian Serb officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zuljanin, who were active during the hostilities surrounding the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, were both convicted of a host of war crimes and crimes against humanity Wednesday and sentenced to 22 years in prison by a trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.01:20 28.03.2013
Russia, Cyprus in second day of gas for cash talksRussia and Cyprus are set to launch a second day of talks in Moscow on Thursday over a multibillion-dollar loan to help the island nation avoid a financial collapse.14:31 21.03.2013
Theodora Bakoyannis appointed PACE co-rapporteur for RussiaThe PACE Monitoring Committee has appointed Theodora Bakoyannis from Greece as the new co-rapporteur for Russia. Ms. Bakoyannis will replace Gyorgy Frunda, a Hungarian politician who held this post for more than three years.11:17 21.03.2013
Sweden starts investigation over 'teddy bear' airdrop caseThe Swedish Prosecutor General's Office has launched a criminal investigation into the plane that illegally crossed the border and dropped teddy bears over Belarus.18:40 19.03.2013
Egyptian police arrests Muammar Ghaddafi's cousinEgyptian special police have arrested a cousin of the late Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi, local media reported on Tuesday.18:32 19.03.2013
US announces changes to missile defense program favorable to RussiaIn response to increased threats posed by North Korea and Iran, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced that the US will add additional ground-based ballistic missile interceptors to its existing arsenal, a move that has been widely interpreted as the Obama administration making good on the American president’s promise last spring of “more flexibility” once reelected.14:01 18.03.2013
MI6 reportedly paid Russian spy Litvinienko $136,000Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB officer who died after being allegedly poisoned in London, was paid at least £90,000 ($136,000) for his work with MI6, the testimony provided to Scotland Yard by Marina Litvinenko reads.10:54 18.03.2013
Swiss authorities allow Chechen businessman to leave the countryNeuchatel prosecutor Pierre Aubert has lifted the house arrest order for Bulat Chagaev, the owner of bankrupt football club Neuchatel Xamax, and he is now free to leave Switzerland.11:41 14.03.2013
Iraq files lawsuits over valuables seized in 2003Iraq has filed some 40 lawsuits against different countries, demanding the return of valuable antiquities illegally taken from the country during the military invasion in 2003.18:13 13.03.2013