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• Putin The Peacemaker? Russia Aims To Calm Middle East Tensions

  Published 14 October 2019 | viewed 9,845 times

  Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saudi Arabia on October 14 amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf and is expected to ink oil agreements,…

• Is This The Nail In The Coffin For The Iranian Nuclear Deal?

  Published 22 June 2019 | viewed 28,505 times

  Iran warned on June 17 that it would further reduce its compliance with the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement it made with world powers -- which…

• Iran Pipeline Explosion Kills Four

  Published 14 March 2019 | viewed 8,328 times

  Share        Print A gas-pipeline explosion has killed at least two people in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan, local media report. The March…

• Russia, Iran Face Backlash Over Oil Shipments To Syria

  Published 24 November 2018 | viewed 10,345 times

  The U.S. Treasury Department has targeted six individuals and three entities that it says are part of an Iranian-Russian network providing millions of barrels of…

• Russia To Resume Gas Imports From Turkmenistan

  Published 13 October 2018 | viewed 11,111 times

  Russia's Gazprom next year will resume imports of natural gas from Turkmenistan that it stopped three years ago, the energy giant's chief executive has said.…

• U.S. Bid To Ban Fuel Shipments To North Korea Fails

  Published 20 July 2018 | viewed 8,632 times

  Russia and China are blocking a U.S. effort at the United Nations to halt all deliveries of refined oil products to North Korea amid charges…

• Iranian President: No One Will Benefit From U.S. Nuclear-Deal Exit

  Published 04 July 2018 | viewed 8,331 times

  During a visit to Vienna, Iranian President Hassan Rohani has reiterated that Tehran will remain in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers as long…

• Russia And U.S. Meet To Discuss Sanctions, Energy

  Published 27 June 2018 | viewed 34,301 times

  Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak has met with his U.S. counterpart Rick Perry and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to discuss energy issues and U.S.…

• Iran Hints At Compromise To Raise Oil Output

  Published 20 June 2018 | viewed 9,287 times

  Iran has suggested it could be open to a compromise on a small rise in OPEC oil output after earlier rejecting a plan by Russia…

• Oil Giants Are Fleeing Iran On Sanction Fears

  Published 02 June 2018 | viewed 21,334 times

  The threat of U.S. sanctions has prompted Russian oil giant Lukoil to put its plans to develop projects in Iran on hold while the Indian…

• Putin Predicts West Will 'Tire' Of Sanctions Soon

  Published 10 February 2018 | viewed 10,470 times

  Putin spoke at a closed-door meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a prominent grouping of company chiefs and tycoons, on February 9.…

• Is Russia Helping North Korea Export Coal?

  Published 27 January 2018 | viewed 10,454 times

  North Korea has exported coal to Japan and South Korea via Russian ports in a probable violation of UN sanctions, Reuters is reporting. In its…

• Iraq To Begin Oil Deliveries To Iran

  Published 08 January 2018 | viewed 9,070 times

  Iraq's oil minister says the country will start exporting oil to Iran from its northern Kirkuk oil fields by the end of January. Oil Minister…

• Russia And Uzbekistan Sign Nuclear Energy Deal

  Published 30 December 2017 | viewed 13,194 times

  Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation and Uzbekistan have signed a nuclear-cooperation agreement that Rosatom says will pave the way for bilateral cooperation "in many…

• The Coal Miners That Refuse To Resurface

  Published 12 December 2017 | viewed 6,806 times

  SHAKHTINSK, Kazakhstan -- A strike by coal miners in north-central Kazakhstan has spread to more mines as hundreds of workers are refusing to return to…

• Putin Inaugurates $27 Billion LNG Arctic LNG Plant

  Published 09 December 2017 | viewed 12,729 times

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has inaugurated a $27 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on the Yamal Peninsula above the Arctic Circle, part of a…

• Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Becomes Less Plausible

  Published 02 December 2017 | viewed 12,793 times

  A U.S. diplomat has dismissed the idea that the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline will ever be built. Speaking to European journalists in a telephone…

• U.S.-Russia Relations Strained Over North Korea Situation

  Published 26 October 2017 | viewed 4,848 times

  U.S. President Donald Trump has said that Russia is hindering U.S. efforts to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons, while China has been helpful. In…

• Rosneft Signs $400M Deal With Kurdistan

  Published 19 October 2017 | viewed 4,625 times

  Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft says it has signed a production-sharing agreement with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region worth up to $400 million. The October 18…

• EU Urges U.S. Congress To Protect Iran Nuclear Deal

  Published 16 October 2017 | viewed 4,353 times

  European Union foreign ministers have closed ranks in support of the Iran nuclear agreement, warning that U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to abandon the multinational…