No end to Russian crisis
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Relatives of the hostages seized in a school in North Ossetia faced a sleepless night on Wednesday, as they waited for more information about their loved ones.
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The spate of terrorist attacks in Russia illustrates that President Vladimir V. Putin&#39;s hard-line policy in Chechnya is failing to resolve that conflict or to make Russians safer.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili  has dismissed sharp words by Russian President Vladimir Putin,  saying Moscow was unlikely to use force to free four Russian  officers whose arrest for spying has sparked a crisis.
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Disputes between Russia and the United States over funding and lucrative contracts are hampering an international effort to destroy the world's largest chemical weapons arsenal, experts said Wednesday.
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Russia failed to resolve differences with the United States and key European countries Monday over a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment.
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The US and Russia's shared anti-terror rhetoric does not reflect the reality of their stalled relationship, writes the BBC's Jonathan Marcus.
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Chechen attacks highlight Russia's failure to crush a rebellion
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An extraordinary conference to look at ways of revitalizing a bellwether European arms control treaty ended on Friday in deadlock between Russia and NATO.
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Emergency talks on a key arms control pact began in restrained fashion on Tuesday with Russia, the United States and NATO states all at pains not to escalate East-West confrontation, the U.S. and Russian delegations said.
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Facing a relentless tide of opposition protests, President Leonid Kuchma said yesterday that a new election might be the only way out of a spiraling crisis that threatens
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The United States and Russia clashed yesterday at a European security forum over the crisis of Ukraine's disputed election, elevating an increasingly tense debate over democracy in former Soviet republics.
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Ukraine's outgoing leader offered his  opponents some concessions on Tuesday but not enough to end a  crisis that has plunged the country into turmoil and driven a  wedge between Russia and the West.
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A crisis has erupted between Israel and Russia over alleged Israeli funding of the newly elected Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko, Israel private television reported.
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The European Union and Russia urged Ukraine leaders Thursday to find a nonviolent solution to the election standoff gripping the former Soviet republic.
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The events in Ukraine have revealed serious problems in relations between Russia and the European Union. It has become obvious that declarations about building a single European home, about unified spaces
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Painful as President Vladimir Putin&#39;s dilemma may be in resolving Russia&#39;s latest hostage crisis, both Russians and the West are likely to blame the hostage-takers more than him if it ends badly, analysts say.
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Russia expelled four British diplomats Thursday in an escalating conflict, but President Vladimir Putin sought to calm what he called a "mini-crisis" over his refusal to extradite a suspect in the murder of a Kremlin critic in London.