Officials at the Pentagon have seen no indication that Russian forces are making any significant moves to withdraw from Georgia, as Russia's leaders promised when they signed a cease-fire agreement on Saturday. The White House says it should not tak...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russian troops have no timetable for withdrawing from Georgia under a cease-fire agreement both sides have signed. Lavrov told reporters in Moscow today the pullout is contingent on the security situation...
U.S. President George Bush says America stands with the democratically-elected government in Georgia in the face of what he calls Russian bullying and intimidation. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush again called on Russia...
Russian Pop diva Valeriya is using her star appeal and personal experience as an abused woman to help migrant workers in her homeland break free of the bonds of sexual exploitation and forced labor. The Geneva-based International Organization for Mi...
U.S. President George Bush says Russia may be violating the terms of a cease-fire in Georgia less than a day after agreeing to stop the fighting in the former Soviet republic. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the president spoke...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to hold talks in Moscow Tuesday with his Russian counterpart in a bid to find a solution to the conflict in Georgia. Lisa Bryant reports from Paris the trip comes as European Union foreign ministers are s...
In 1990, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Moscow City Council changed the names of many, but not all, city streets that honored communist leaders associated with Soviet atrocities. Today, Russian civic activists are calling for a complet...
DNA tests have positively identified the remains of two children of the last Russian czar, settling a mystery that had long surrounded their fate. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports the memory of the murdered czarist family is still hon...
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is calling for legislation by the end of this year to fight corruption. But as VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports, the Russian leader expects corruption of the anti-corruption effort. Russian President...
Energy and security dominated the Russia-EU Summit in Western Siberia, where Kremlin leader Dmitri Medvedev called for creation of all-European institutions to replace long-standing structures, including NATO. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky...