Russia has started building a spacecraft for manned Lunar missions with the first test scheduled in 2015, the project developer said Thursday.
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey met Thursday with his Russian counterpart Nikolay Makarov at the Pentagon.
Medvedev has braved both unpredictable weather and quite predictable reactions from Tokyo by visiting the disputed Southern Kuril archipelago.
Russia will put the first S-500 air defense systems into operation next year, air force chief Viktor Bondarev said Wednesday.
The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces successfully test-fired a Topol RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile, local media reported on Friday.
Russia sharply criticised the US ambassador for the third time in his five-month tenure after he said that Moscow offered Kyrgyzstan a bribe in a bid to evict US forces from an air base and had sought backroom "quid pro quo" deals on key issues.
With the "reset" of Russia-US relations, progress has been made in bilateral political cooperation despite certain problems.
Ten weaponry caches for terrorist acts against Sochi Winter Olympics were found in Abkhazia, the Russian National Anti-Terror Committee (NAC) said Thursday.