As the Bush administration presses for greater economic pressure to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Tehran is turning east for economic survival.

Dmitri Medvedev handily won Russia’s presidential elections. He stands to inherit an economy on the rise but fraught with potential land mines.

The U.S. Federal Reserve made emergency rate cuts in the face of market pressure. Other central banks appear more hesitant, citing fears of inflation.

Kosovo is expected to declare independence within the next month. Russia says this could trigger instability in other nearby breakaway regions.

Russia doesn’t have abundant stores of natural uranium but its considerable enrichment capacity and nuclear know-how is increasingly up for sale.

U.S. and EU talk of “partnership” with Russia has reverted to rivalry as Moscow moves to undo some of the agreements of the 1990s.

In an echo of the 1960s, Venezuela, Russia, and Bolivia are among a number of countries trying to renationalize the property of multinational corporations.

Two days of talks, both formal and informal, gave Presidents Bush and Putin a chance to air their differences, which by all appearances remain quite substantial.

The summit meeting underway between President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin at Kennebunkport, Maine, began with a long agenda and very low expectations.

Amid concerns over a growing rift between Russia and the United States, President Vladimir Putin surprised President Bush with an offer on missile defense.  

Boris Yeltsin played a pivotal role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but his topsy-turvy tenure at the helm of post-Soviet Russia was marked by war, economic debacle, and fleeting freedoms for Russians.

The world's leading natural gas producers, Iran, Russia, and Qatar among them, seek to strengthen their sway on the price of their coveted commodity.

A blunt anti-U.S. speech by Vladimir Putin reminds some in the West of the Cold War. But others say the Russian president may have a point.

Energy disputes, pipeline politics, and a takeover of the Sakhalin II project have clouded Russia’s relations with its neighbors and foreign investors.

The death of a former Russian spy in London by radiation poisoning raises echoes of a Cold War caper. But concern about alleged Kremlin links to the case reflects a deeper unease about Russia itself.

Closer Russia-Iran ties, as evidenced by their growing conventional arms trade, may complicate efforts to sanction Tehran for its alleged nuclear weapons program at the UN Security Council.

The murder of a prominent journalist reinforces Russia’s image as one of the planet’s most dangerous places to cover news. What it says about President Putin’s tenure is less clear.  

Russia has severed transport links with Georgia as the most serious row in years between the two sides deepens. The move follows Georgia’s temporary seizure of Russian military officers, a mark of Tbilisi’s frustration over Russian policy in the region.

Fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet empire, a number of so-called frozen conflicts remain unresolved and threaten to unravel fragile peace accords in regions important to energy interests and organizations like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The G8 Summit this month came on the heels of an important development in Russia—the death of Chechen terrorist leader Shamil Basayev. Although the separatists have been weakened, experts say the resistance will persist.