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Javier Solana: I am not yet ready for retirement

EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana will soon hand over his duties to a successor with the Treaty of Lisbon’s entry into force on December 1, 2009. Solana tells Interfax how relations between Moscow and Brussels may develop after December 1, how quickly a new partnership and cooperation treaty between Russia and the EU may be concluded and what should be expected from the upcoming EU-Russia summit in Stockholm.  More...

Eradication of opium poppy in Afghanistan has to be done carefully

Anthony Placido, Assistant Administrator and Chief of Intelligence for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration visited Moscow last week. Placido gave an interview to Interfax following the talks with Russian Interior Ministry and Russian Federal Drug Control Service officials.  More...

Lecturing and wagging a finger is not our style - Michael McFaul

Moscow hosted the first informal meeting of a Russian-U.S. working groups on civil society under the chairmanship of Russian First Deputy Presidential Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov and special assistant to the U.S. president for National Security Affairs Michael McFaul. Following the meeting, McFaul gave an interview to Interfax.  More...

U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Alexander Vershbow: We didn't expect any quid pro quo for our new approach for missile defense

U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Alexander Vershbow during his visit to Moscow gave an interview to Interfax  More...

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