The Russian-Ukrainian crisis is gaining a long-term character, posing new questions to the international community and making the old ones sharper. One of them is gas supplies to Europe. Gnther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Energy, explained the position of the Old World on the matter. In September a session of the member states of the EU will ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops deployed in regions near Ukraine to return to their home bases, the Kremlin said Monday. The move appears to indicate Putin's intention to de-escalate the crisis over Ukraine, the worst in Russia's relations with the West since the end of the Cold War. The West has protested the deployment of ...

Tehran, May 12, IRNA Iranian lawmaker Ali Kaeedi on Monday expressed hope that peace and security would be restored in Ukraine through dialogue between the warring parties. Kaeedi, co-chairman of Iran-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group, made the remarks in a meeting with outgoing Ukrainian ambassador to Iran Oleksandr Samarskiy. Kaeedi said ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Russian President Vladimir Putin asked pro-Kremlin separatists in southeastern Ukraine to postpone a series of disputed referendums planned for this weekend on declaring greater autonomy or outright independence from Kiev. The move was announced after a Kremlin meeting with the current Organisation for Security and Cooperation ...

Tehran, May 6, IRNA Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said in her weekly press briefing on Tuesday that the international community must help restore peace in Syria, Ukraine, Nigeria and other volatile regions. Speaking about the content of recent talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and UN Special Representative ...

Using the crisis in Ukraine, the Tehran Friday Prayer leaderwarned the US not to meddlein Irans internal affairs. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the head of the Guardian Council, said, The Americans should now understand that actions against nations and revolutions will not always benefit them and that they should not unseat a popular ruler to install their ...

Iran has expressed concern over the escalating violence in eastern Ukraine, calling on both sides to find a peaceful solution to end the tensions. On Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham called the conflict a domestic issue, urging both sides to refrain from the use of force. The continuation of clashes and the spread of violence ...

A senior Iranian cleric says US leaders must learn a lesson from the ongoing crisis in Ukraine to stop fomenting coup in other countries. The Americans should now understand that actions against nations and revolutions will not always benefit them and that they should not unseat a popular ruler to install their own stooge, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans on Wednesday slammed President Barack Obama's response to Russian aggression as timid and insufficient, and offered an alternative that would impose sanctions on banking and energy sectors and provide weapons to Ukraine. In an election-year broadside against administration policy, eight Republicans led by GOP ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Moscow repudiates recently-imposed US and EU sanctions against Russia over the Ukrainian standoff, and calls for national reconciliation in Ukraine through all-inclusive political dialogue, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. "We denounce sanctions in all their forms, including those that have been announced by the United States ...

The Obama administrations strategy of punishing Russia with economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis encountered a new complication yesterday with word that the Russians are negotiating an $8 billion to $10 billion energy deal with Iran, another country ostracized by U.S.-led sanctions, which partly depend on Moscows cooperation to be effective. The ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Tuesday deplored the US and European states for imposing sanctions on a number of new Russian government officials and business entities, calling them "inefficient". "We condemn the sanctions; the US and Europe should be aware that such methods are inefficient and they shouldnt treat countries from a superiority-seeking position,...

(Reuters) - U.S. PresidentBarack Obamaannounced new sanctions against some Russians on Monday to stop President Vladimir Putin from fomenting the rebellion in eastern Ukraine, but said he was holding broader measures against Russia's economy"in reserve." On the ground, pro-Moscow rebels showed no sign of curbing their uprising, seizing public buildings ...

Three people were killed and thirteen others injured by gunfire in a confrontation between anti-government protesters and soldiers stationed at a military base in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says. Avakov wrote on his Facebook page that three of the anti-government activists that clashed with soldiers at the base ...

[caption id="attachment_54052" align="alignright" width="180"] United Nations Security Council in session (file photo)[/caption] ILNA: The U.N. Security Council met late Sunday in emergency session as violence escalated in eastern Ukraine, hours before a Monday morning deadline for pro-Russia protesters to lay down their arms or face Ukrainian troops....

Ukrainian forces have launched an operation against pro-Russian activists who seized a police station on Saturday, the interior minister says. Arsen Avakov announced on his Facebook page that "all security units" were involved in an "anti-terror operation" in the eastern city of Sloviansk. Russia warned earlier that any use of force in eastern ...

Russia is ready for negotiations with the US, EU and Ukraine, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He added that the talks may start in 10 days. Southeastern Ukrainian regions should also take part in the negotiations, he said. "The Kiev coup-appointed government hasnt made any positive steps towards these regions, Lavrov said. [The southeastern ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia does not believe that relations with the United States will affect nuclear talks between the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) and Iran, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday. "We do not see such indicators yet," the Russian official told ITAR-TASS upon arrival ...

[caption id="attachment_91095" align="alignright" width="180"] Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev chairs a government meeting in the Crimean city of Simferopol, March 31, 2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea on Monday by flying to the region and announcing plans to turn it into a special ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Russia is ready for the widest possible cooperation on the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine, but the first step along that path should be taken by the Ukrainian side, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russia's Channel One television on Sunday. "The Ukrainian authorities should be the first to step forward, stretch out a hand ...