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The second conviction of Russia's ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky should be overturned, an advisory council to President Dmitry Medvedev has said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday rejected as unfounded allegations that Russia's Nord Stream and South Stream pipeline project projects were aimed at making Europe dependent on Russian energy supplies

Russia has resolved all disagreements with the European Union concerning its accession to the World Trade Organization, a Russian deputy premier said on Wednesday

The rapidly developing countries of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) approve of the idea of including South Africa into the forum, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday

The leaders of the Group of Twenty major economies are gathering in Seoul for a two-day summit on Thursday

The European Union's energy commissioner has unveiled the main outlines of a proposed joint EU energy strategy for the next 10 years

China warned on Tuesday that U.S. easy money could destabilize the global economy and inflate asset bubbles, keeping up the pressure on Washington just two days before the start of a G20 leaders summit

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Finnish counterpart Tarja Halonen will discuss strategic partnership between Russia and the European Union, as well as international problems, including nuclear nonproliferation

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official two-day visit to Turkmenistan on Thursday to discuss cooperation with his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, a Kremlin source said on Thursday.

President of the United States Barack Obama plans to pay an official visit to Pakistan in 2011 and invited the Pakistani president to visit Washington, a statement from the White House said

A committee of international affairs with the Russian parliament's lower house, the State Duma, will discuss on Thursday the state and perspectives of Russian and Abkhaz relations

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss a "broad range of issues of the Euro-Atlantic agenda" with participants in the 46th Munich Security Conference on Wednesday, a Kremlin source said

Sitting on a bench close to St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, former Mayor Yury Luzhkov and his billionaire wife, Yelena Baturina, were listening to street musicians performing "Podmoskovnye Vechera" and "Hava Nagila" when they were spotted by two Russian reporters.

Cuba’s anticipated development of its offshore oil resources would profoundly affect its national economy, but have more political impacts on relations with the US

President Barack Obama's administration faces a deadline on Friday on whether to formally declare for the first time that China manipulates its currency, following an election-year vote in Congress to get tough with Beijing

Polls closed Sunday in the poor but strategically important Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan as citizens turned out to elect a new parliament, after a year that has seen the president flee the country and ethnic riots that left hundreds dead

Ex-Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, sacked in late September, has linked his dismissal to the 2012 presidential election.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will lead a delegation of U.S. venture capitalists from Silicon Valley to Russia on October 10, Russia's hi-tech government corporation Rosnano said.

Acting Moscow Mayor Vladimir Resin is seeking membership of the ruling United Russia party, the party's press service said.

Presidents of Russia and Ukraine Dmitry Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovich will meet in Gelendzhik on Monday to discuss energy and high-tech cooperation, Medvedev’s aide Sergei Prikhodko said on Friday. The Russian leader will go to Gelendzhik for one day.