The latest: Russia Holding Nuclear Negotiations With Iran

13.03.2006
Russia Holding Nuclear Negotiations With Iran — Report
Consultations between Russia and Iran on Tehran’s nuclear issue started in Moscow on Monday, a source reported. Earlier, Russia’s Foreign Minister said the negotiations would resume “in the nearest future.”

13.03.2006
Russia Does Not Trust Milosevic Autopsy Results — Foreign Minister
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Russia doesn’t fully trust Milosevic’s autopsy and is going to send doctors to examine the body.

13.03.2006
Russian Nuclear Proposal Still Negotiable — Iran
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said a Russian compromise proposal on its nuclear programme can still be negotiated, after earlier saying the plan was now off the agenda.

13.03.2006
Russian Doctor Suspects Milosevic Refused to Take Pills
Doctors treating Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague suspected he was secretly spitting out the medicines they gave him, the head of a Russian clinic said on Sunday. The former Yugoslav president was found dead in his cell at The Hague on Saturday.

13.03.2006
Creamy Pink Snow Covers Russian Region
Creamy pink snow has covered the northern regions of Russia’s Maritime territory.

13.03.2006
Radical Anti-Semites Sentenced to Jail in Siberia
A court in the Siberian city of Tomsk has sentenced several members of a criminal gang to lengthy prison sentences for terrorism, banditry and arousing national hatred. In 2002 the men installed a trip-wired billboard with an anti-Semitic slogan near a busy highway, spilled mercury in a Jewish restaurant and killed two men.

13.03.2006
Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses OSCE of Biased Attitude Towards Belarus Elections
Top Russian diplomat has accused the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe of showing bias regarding coming presidential elections in Belarus.

13.03.2006
Russia to Back UN Probe Into Hariri’s Killing — Official
Syria’s foreign minister has arrived in Moscow on a visit expected to focus on the United Nations probe into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the situation on the Palestinian territories and other regional issues.

13.03.2006
Milosevic’s Brother Rushed to Moscow Cardiological Hospital
Borislav Milosevic, elder brother of late Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, has been taken to the Bakulev Cardio-Vascular Surgery Center in Moscow.

13.03.2006
Russian Diplomat Calls for Flexibility in U.S. — North Korea Talks
A top Russian diplomat has urged the United States and North Korea on Monday to show flexibility to resolve their row over U.S. suspicions of the North copying its currency, and get talks on its nuclear programs back on track.

13.03.2006
Russia Will Not Trade Iran’s Support for WTO Accession — FM
Russian Foreign Minister has categorically rejected the possibility that Moscow could soften its position on the Iranian nuclear problem in exchange for an agreement with Washington on its accession to the World Trade Organization.