Since taking office last May, Egypt' s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has been working hard to diversify the country's strategic relations with foreign powers after decades of submission to the political will of the United States, political observers said on Wednesday.
The Pentagon said on Tuesday it was concerned about the arms deal between Iran and Russia for missile systems.
The China-Russia Joint Sea-2015 (II) exercise, a nine-day joint drill of Chinese and Russian navies, is not targeting any third party, Yang Yujun, spokesperson of China's Ministry of Defense said on Thursday.
As China and Russia started the second phase of an annual joint naval drill Thursday off the coast of Vladivostok, quite a few worrywarts have found themselves attracted to the sensational claim that the two countries are stepping up efforts to forge a military alliance.
Russia will ban food imports from seven countries that have decided to support the European Union's (EU) sanctions against Moscow, the country's Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Tuesday.
Iran and Russia may increase their military-technical cooperation as the comprehensive solution to Tehran's controversial nuclear program has given the two sides a good opportunity for that, Iran's ambassador to Moscow said Tuesday.
Russia is not responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine one year ago, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
Australia's Foreign Minister has urged Russia against obstructing a United Nations (UN) Security Council move to further investigate the MH17 disaster.
Russia is expected to see a positive growth of 2.3 percent in its economy next year, said a leading Russian official Monday.
Moscow on Sunday released its new maritime doctrine, which underscored the country's reaction to the expansion of the NATO towards Russia's western frontier.
"Good morning, American pilots. We are here to greet you on your Fourth of July Independence Day" - - this was the awe-inspiring message delivered by Russian nuclear bomber pilots to U.S. fighter pilots sent to intercept them off the U.S. Pacific coast earlier the month, the U.S. military was quoted as saying Thursday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday slammed the attempts to rewrite the history of World War II, saying they would jeopardize the modern UN-centric world order.
The Russia-proposed idea of the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development and China's Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative are economically complementary, Vladimir Yakunin, head of the Russian Railways said here Wednesday.
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Serb Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, a UN "safe area," citing the term "genocide" used in the document in describing the mass slaying as the reason for doing so.
China and Russia should continue to maintain their high-level strategic coordination within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Wednesday.
Cooperation between Chinese and Russian media will not only be conducive to their development, but also help form a more diverse and balanced pattern for international communication.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday that Russian anti-sanction measures against Western countries would be extended for one year.
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