Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of turning against Teheran and joining US efforts to spread lies about its nuclear program on Friday, in the latest sign that Iran is drifting apart from a one-time key backer. Read the full story

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Iran is “moving closer” to having the potential to create nuclear weapons. It is one of the first times Moscow has publicly recognised that Iran might be moving towards a nuclear weapon. Read the full story

U.S. authorities said on Monday they have broken up a spy ring that carried out deep-cover work in the United States to recruit political sources and gather information for the Russian government. Read the full story

Kyrgyzstan has voted to create Central Asia’s first parliamentary democracy, referendum results showed on Monday, prompting a Russian warning that extremists could manipulate parliament and seize power. Read the full story

Iran’s president on Wednesday urged US President Barack Obama to accept the Brazilian-brokered nuclear fuel exchange deal, warning that Obama will miss a historic opportunity for improved cooperation from Teheran if the offer is rejected. Read the full story

The Foreign Ministry issued an uncharacteristically sharp response on Wednesday to a Russian and Turkish call to include Hamas in the diplomatic process, drawing parallels between Hamas and Chechen terrorists and saying it was wrong to distinguish between “good” and “bad” terrorists. Read the full story

Chaos has erupted in the Ukrainian parliament during a debate over the extension of the lease on a Russian naval base in Ukraine. Read the full story

Kyrgyzstan’s self-proclaimed new leadership said on Thursday that Russia had helped to oust President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, and that they aimed to close a U.S. airbase that has irritated Moscow. Read the full story

US President Barack Obama and the Russian leader, Dmitry Medvedev, have signed a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital, Prague. Read the full story

Russia and the United States have agreed on a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) for the scaling back and controlling of their nuclear arsenals. Read the full story

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart clashed openly on Thursday over the planned startup this summer of Iran’s first, Russian-built nuclear power plant, highlighting a split in views over how to steer Iran away from nuclear weapons. Read the full story

China has called for more negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program after Russia suggested it may consider new sanctions against Tehran. Read the full story

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced that Moscow is against imposing “crippling sanctions” on Iran over its nuclear energy program. Read the full story

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he will press the case for “crippling sanctions” against Iran when he visits Russia this week. Read the full story

President Dmitry Medvedev approved Friday a new military doctrine identifying NATO expansion as a national threat and reaffirming Russia’s right to use nuclear weapons if the country’s existence is threatened. Read the full story

 The future strategic arms reduction treaty must be ratified simultaneously in Russia and the United States. Another situation is unacceptable, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during the meeting with parliament leaders on Saturday.

The situation of the Soviet period — when the USSR ratified the documents and the United States did not — is unacceptable, Medvedev stressed.

It is a parity thing, and both states are interested in it, he noted.

“Either we together ratify the prepared document that will be well considered and will reflect our ideas of strategic nuclear forces for the future, or the process will not take place,” the president said.

“I believe our American partners must know about it,” he added.