MOSCOW (Reuters) - The presidents of Russia and the United States could sign a nuclear arms reduction treaty in March or April, the Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Security Council chief as saying on Tuesday. The remarks by the hawkish Nikolai Patrushev were the latest indication that tough talks on a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START ...

Senior officials from the United States and Russia held talks Thursday on a new nuclear disarmament treaty, Interfax news agency reported, after both sides said significant progress had been made. US and Russian negotiators have been in lengthy talks on a replacement for the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a key Cold War-era disarmament pact which expired in December ...

A booby-trapped car rammed into a police vehicle Wednesday and exploded, killing six policemen and wounding 14 in the restive Russian republic of Dagestan, Interfax news agency quoted an official as saying. Earlier reports said four policemen died in the blast in the North Caucasus region. The spokesman for Dagestan's emergency medical centre said the toll could mount. The ...

Russia on Friday imposed a new minimum legal price for vodka in a bid to hinder the sale of cut-price black market moonshine blamed for the deaths of thousands of Russians every year. From the first day of the New Year, a new law came into force stipulating that the minimum price of a half-litre bottle of vodka is 89 ...