It has purchased 300 to 400 Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters and Su-30 fighter-bombers, plus Russian A-50 AWACS and anti-air and ground attack missiles.
On Tuesday, the Russian navy reported that a Russian and a British ship came to the aid of a Danish ship that was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
In symmetry that seems almost too perfect, much as Syria is a significant consumer of Russian weapons and hosts a Russian naval base, Bahrain is a significant consumer of American weapons and hosts an American naval base.
If a legal Russian business uses a criminally owned company to bribe an official in order to land its revenues legally (by Russian standards) in a western bank, how guilty is the banker under, say, English law, for taking the deposit?
If the world ever makes it to Prometheus, it will probably be on a Russian space ship or have a Russian crew.
In addition to the eight Turks, it carried a Russian and a Kyrgyz crew member, and one Afghan citizen, he said.
The suspects - a Russian, a Latvian and a Romanian - ran a "modern-day bank robbery ring, that required neither a gun or a mask", the prosecutors say.
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Justice Department and FBI officials in New York announced the indictment against a Russian, a Latvian and a Romanian who officials say caused tens of millions of dollars in losses.
At Christie's, Boris Kustodiev's iconic 1923 painting "The Coachman" depicts a jolly Russian in a voluminous, bright-blue winter costume, arms out in a welcoming gesture.
Anton Siluanov, Russia's finance minister, said the Cypriots were seeking to get Russian companies to invest in a state-owned firm managing revenues from the island's newfound offshore gas deposits and give Russian companies a stake in that company.
Hublot, which gave the world the now de rigueur rubber strap, came back from the brink with the brilliantly conceived Big Bang series, unmistakably the bastard child of the Royal Oak, only edgier and probably aimed at wearers who would choose a Lamborghini over a Bentley, or a Black Russian over a glass of Masseto.
What would the West do if a Russian aircraft carrying anti-aircraft missiles took off for Belgrade, or if a Russian cargo ship headed for Yugoslavia's remaining Adriatic port?
As NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, it involves a Russian scholar on a fellowship here in Washington.
Hackers have bought the site of a Russian newspaper to a standstill.
The manager of the Bolshoi Theatre has sparred in a Russian magazine with a star dancer following the acid attack on artistic director Sergei Filin.
Older actors whose names have been linked to the role include 71-year-old David Warner, who was seen as a Russian scientist in a recent episode of the BBC One fantasy series.
He'll blast off in a Russian capsule, and after it docks with the space station, he'll be able to shake hands with Sergei Volkov, the first child of a Russian cosmonaut to go up.
Aliona Muchinskaya, a Russian who runs a public relations agency, says she was suddenly inundated with calls from companies that wanted to sell luxury goods to Russians, a contrast to stereotypes of a decade earlier.
Mr Medvedev said the legal traditions of different countries should be respected and that under the Russian constitution it was impossible for a Russian citizen to be extradited to a foreign country to stand trial.
The Moscow talks coincided with the deployment of a Soyuz craft to ferry a new crew to the ISS. The existing crew - two Americans and a Russian - had a dramatic re-entry that took their craft more than 400 kilometres (250 miles) beyond its intended landing site.
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) -- A Russian space capsule docked with the orbiting station Mir on Monday to allow a joint Russian-French-Slovak crew to embark on what could be the last mission to the aging craft.
Semion Mogilevich, a top Russian crime boss, was arrested in Moscow in January for his alleged connection to a tax evasion scheme involving a Russian cosmetics company.
Meanwhile, a former Russian prime minister who was thought to have been another poisoning victim has been released from a Russian hospital.
"London is a metropolis, " says Olga Sirenko, a Russian who moved there in 1997 and now edits a Web site for Russian expats.
During his time in Kazakhstan things never went smoothly for Perry, a Dartmouth graduate with degrees in engineering and Russian and a former U.S. Navy lieutenant.
"He has a contract, he is the manager of the national side, and while his contract is in force no one can consider him as a candidate for another post, " Russian Football Union president Vitaly Mutko told a Russian radio station.
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Is a Russian in Mayfair on a par with a Pakistani in the Midlands?
Conversely, if you are a wealthy Russian depositor in a Cyprus bank, this is a pretty raw deal.
Mrs Merkel took pains to dispel this idea, turning down a Russian proposal to add a third pipe to the Baltic gas pipeline.
It follows Moscow's decision to expel US diplomat Ryan Fogle, who was accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer as a spy.
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