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A delegation of the Ministry of Tourism of Turkey visited Russia and Germany and had meetings with representatives of leading travel companies in these countries, 'HA1 4rriyet' newspaper reported on Tuesday.

On June 14, the United States and the Russian Federation signed a new bilateral framework on threat reduction that reinforces our longstanding partnership on nonproliferation.

Remarks by President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, at the summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations, as transcribed by the White House.

MOSCOW, June 17 While admitting that Russia and Europe have cultural differences, Russians are divided whether Europeans have a friendly attitude towards them, a recent opinion poll said on Monday.

Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian stopped short of ruling out Armenia's accession to a new Russian-led bloc of former Soviet republics over the weekend, raising more questions about its integration with the European Union.

MOSCOW, June 17 About 64 percent of Russians identify themselves as belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church, but many of them have never read the Bible and rarely go to church or pray, a recent poll showed.

In this Friday, June 14, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, Syrian rebels stand on top of a tank they took after storming the Iskan military base in Idlib province, northern Syria.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media after his meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, unseen, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 15, 2013.

Russia's aluminium monopoly Rusal, with its hidden Kremlin shareholders, has slipped below the worthlessness level on the Hong Kong Exchange that is, its market cap is now less than the value of the 28% shareholding it owns in Russia's largest mining company, Norilsk Nickel.

The head of the Ulema Council of the Russian Council of Muftis, talks about the tensions between Muslims and Orthodox, Wahabi propaganda and problems with Muslim migrants in Tatarstan.

Russia appears to have finally yielded to American pressure to adopt a tax dodgers' law known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act .

International Russian airline, Transaero Airlines awarded GA Telesis Engine Services Oy an exclusive 10 year contract valued at up to $500 million to provide engine repair and overhaul services for Transaero's sixty-two General Electric CF6-80C2 engines for their Boeing 767 and Boeing 747 fleets.

Leaked documents reveal Russian president was spied on during visit, as questions are raised over use of US base in Britain US spies intercepted communications of the then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, during a G20 summit in London.

June 17, Colombo: Dr. Saman Weerasinghe, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mos-Lanka Holdings Group of Companies and an Advisor to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse was awarded the 'Order of Honor of the Russian Federation' on the 12th of June 2013 in Colombo at a ceremony held on the occasion of the National Day of the Russian Federation.

David Cameron was warned last night that he would risk arming extremists who "eat the organs" of their enemies if he handed weapons to Syrian rebels.

In an extraordinary riposte to the Prime Minister, the Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the brutal tactics used by some of the rebels battling to topple Bashir Assad’s regime were at odds with the “humanitarian and cultural values” of Europe.

Makhachkala Mayor Said Amirov, who was apprehended at his home on June 1 and charged three days later with having commissioned a contract killing, denied on June 14 media reports that he was hospitalized late on June 11 after slashing his veins in an apparent suicide attempt.

MOSCOW: Russia celebrated Sunday the 50th anniversary of the maiden flight of the first woman in space - a Soviet national hero who went by the call name 'Seagull' and captured the imaginations of girls around the world.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a press conference at 10 Downing Street, London, Sunday June 16, 2013.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is a popular but polarizing figure who has dominated Russian politics for more than a decade.