Russia’s largest coal mine has been hit by a second explosion hours after a deadly methane blast killed at least 12 workers and left dozens of others trapped underground.
Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency said the second blast on Sunday forced rescue operations to be suspended after officials on the surface lost contact with 20 emergency workers [...]
The Russian president has warned that neighbouring Kyrgyzstan is “on the brink of civil war” after the president was forced to flee the capital, Bishkek, in the aftermath of violent protests.
Dmitry Medvedev’s remarks in Wahington late on Tuesday came as the self-declared interim goverment threatened to arrest Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the deposed president.
More than 80 people [...]
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, and Barack Obama, his US counterpart, have arrived in Prague to sign a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty.
The signature ceremony is scheduled for Thursday at noon (10:00 GMT) at the Prague Castle, the seat of the Czech presidency.
“The treaty is an important document on which the overall situation in nuclear disarmament [...]
The US has announced a new, more restrictive policy on the use of its nuclear weapons with Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, stating that the country aims to play a “stabilising role” for its allies.
At a news conference in Washington on Tuesday, Clinton and Robert Gates, the defence secretary, unveiled the changes as part [...]
At least 12 people have been killed and another 18 injured in two bomb blasts in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, two days after a deadly attack on Moscow’s transport network.
The first blast occurred in the town of Kizlyar in the southern province of Dagestan on Wednesday morning, when car bomb near a school was [...]
Russian leaders have pledged to “find and wipe out” those behind twin suicide bombings at metro stations in Moscow that killed 39 people and left scores injured.
“They are simply beasts,” Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, said of the bombers after laying a wreath of red roses at Lubyanka metro station, one of the sites targeted.
“I [...]
At least 35 people have been reported killed in twin explosions at stations on Moscow’s metro rail network.
The first blast took place at the Lubyanka metro station in the centre of the city, followed by a second explosion at Park Kultury in the southwest of the city.
Moscow’s chief prosecutor said the explosions were carried out [...]
Russia is to build 12 nuclear reactors in India, half of them by 2017, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced.
Sergei Kiriyenko, speaking in the Indian capital New Delhi on Friday, said six of the reactors will be built between 2012 and 2017.
“So far it is clear that it will be 12 [...]