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AIDS experts say Russia needs new HIV strategy

MOSCOW - AIDS experts urged Russian officials on Wednesday to scrap their abstinence-based strategy for curbing the spread of HIV, saying the country's fast-growing epidemic could be entering a dangerous new phase. ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

Ex-US diplomat: Russia balks at zero nuke talks

MOSCOW - Russia is not ready to agree to a proposed new round of arms control talks that were to begin after a deal is reached on extending the START 1 nuclear treaty, a U.S. ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dmitry Medvedev,  Ronald Reagan,  Sergey Lavrov,  Barack Obama,  National Security Council

Russian prez defends election that helped Kremlin

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's president on Saturday defended recent local elections that drew fraud allegations, inspired an opposition walkout of parliament and strengthened the Kremlin's grip on power. Dmitry Medvedev said during a meeting with ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, NevadaAppeal.com,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Vladimir Zhirinovsky,  Dmitry Medvedev,  United Russia,  Mikhail Gorbachev,  Gennady Zyuganov

Russian president defends vote that helped Kremlin

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's president on Saturday defended recent local elections that drew fraud allegations, inspired an opposition walkout of parliament and strengthened the Kremlin's grip on power. Dmitry Medvedev said during a meeting with ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, NevadaAppeal.com,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Vladimir Zhirinovsky,  Dmitry Medvedev,  United Russia,  Mikhail Gorbachev,  Gennady Zyuganov

Russian president defends recent elections

MOSCOW—The Russian president on Saturday defended recent local elections that drew fraud allegations, inspired an opposition walkout of parliament and strengthened the Kremlin's grip on power Dmitry Medvedev told leaders of the Communists and other ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, Boston Globe,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dmitry Medvedev,  United Russia,  Mikhail Gorbachev

Analysis: Russia uses ambiguity to boost its power

MOSCOW—As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton began her first visit to Moscow as the top U.S. diplomat, the Kremlin sent a message to Washington: Russia must still be wooed and won. It's how post-Soviet Russia has managed to thrive as a world ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, Boston Globe,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Dmitry Medvedev,  Sergey Lavrov,  U N Security Council,  Vladimir Putin

Russian spacecraft with circus tycoon lands safely

MOSCOW—The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and two other space travelers landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday, ending the entertainment tycoon's mirthful space odyssey. Laliberte, who wore a bulbous clown nose ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, Boston Globe,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Cirque du Soleil,  Guy Laliberte,  NASA,  Al Gore,  Shakira

UN: Russia should reform immigration practices

MOSCOW - Russia should ease barriers to immigration in order to reduce the impact of labor shortages, slower economic growth and other pressures brought on by its ongoing demographic crisis, a United Nations report said Monday. ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

UN: Russia must adapt to shrinking population

MOSCOW—Russia's population has fallen by 6.6 million since 1993, despite the influx of millions of immigrants, a United Nations report said Monday, and by 2025 the country could lose a further 11 million people. The result could be labor shortages, an ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, Boston Globe,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Dmitry Medvedev,  Mikhail Gorbachev

Russia presses US to destroy Afghan poppy crop

Russia is pressing the White House to resurrect the Bush-era policy of large-scale eradication of poppy fields in Afghanistan, an effort that critics say angered Afghan farmers and rallied support for the Taliban but did little to curb the ...

From DOUGLAS BIRCH, eTaiwan News,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  White House,  Taliban,  Barack Obama,  NATO

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