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January 9, 2013
11:48 am

A worker on Tuesday prepares ballot boxes for the January 22 elections at a warehouse in Shoham, near Tel Aviv, before they are shipped to polling stations. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israelis in New Zealand to kick off voting Wednesday night

4,000 citizens employed at 92 missions around the world to vote overseas

By Michal Shmulovich

January 6, 2013
4:57 am

Illustrative photo of the Russian warship Varyag (photo credit: CC BY-randychiu, Flickr)

Fleet of Russian warships reportedly en route to Syria to head off a Western attack

Israel and the US said to be mulling a military campaign to secure chemical weapons held by Moscow’s civil war-ravaged ally

By Times of Israel staff

December 30, 2012
7:20 pm

The Russian Federation Navy Udaloy class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov transiting the channel into Pearl Harbor in October 2003 (photo credit: US Navy)

Russian warship heads to Syria in preparation for a possible evacuation

Moscow officials have acknowledged that citizens will be pulled out of the country should Assad’s regime fall

By Adiv Sterman

December 29, 2012
11:43 am

In this Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, answers media questions after consultations at United Nations headquarters. (Photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

UN peace envoy and Russian FM push for speedy, Syrian-led resolution to crisis

150 killed in fighting Friday; only choices are ‘hell or a political process,’ warns Brahimi while Lavrov calls opposition’s refusal to negotiate with Assad ‘a dead end’

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

December 28, 2012
4:31 pm

Muslim cleric Mouaz al-Khatib, poses for a photo after after he was elected president of the newly formed Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, in Doha, Qatar (photo credit: AP/Osama Faisal)

Syrian rebel leader snubs Russian FM’s overtures for talks

‘If we don’t represent the Syrian people, why is he inviting us?’ asks head of opposition, calls on Moscow to demand Assad step down before negotiations

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

December 28, 2012
8:52 am

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow in April 2012 (photo credit: AP)

In push for ceasefire plan, Moscow invites Syrian rebel leader for talks

Russia recently said it would revive efforts to implement the Geneva plan, which calls for an end to fighting but no Assad ouster

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

December 27, 2012
10:00 am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to reporters as he arrives at the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Sunday (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Tell us how you really feel

Liberman’s cynicism drips off the pages, while Netanyahu makes his feelings for Livni and Assad very well known

By Joshua Davidovich

December 25, 2012
9:45 pm

Weapons of mass distraction

Female Russian technicians at Iranian nuclear plant violate dress code, have ‘corrupting’ influence on their coworkers

December 22, 2012
4:30 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia: We won’t give Assad shelter, but others ‘welcome’ to do so

Lavrov urges countries to go directly to the Syrian president with offers of a safe haven instead of turning to Moscow for mediation

December 22, 2012
1:57 pm

Russian FM: Moscow keeping tabs on Syrian chemical weapons

Sergey Lavrov says Assad regime has consolidated arsenal to better protect it from rebels

December 22, 2012
11:28 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, in September. (photo credit: Jim Watson/AP)

US, Russia reportedly agree to removal of Assad from power

Opposition sources claim Moscow backs diplomatically arranged regime change in Syria; no official confirmation

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 20, 2012
4:27 pm

Putin calls for ‘change,’ compromise in Syria

‘What happens next’ more important than the fate of the Assad regime, Russian president says

December 20, 2012
1:30 am

The UN Security Council chamber (photo credit: CC BY-SA Gruban, Flickr)

Security Council members step up pressure on Israel over settlements

US blocks vote on resolution against Israel and joint presidential statement condemning move

By AP and Times of Israel staff

December 17, 2012
1:41 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, sits down as Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on before a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Tolga Bozoglu, Pool)

Turkey suggests new plan on Syrian leadership transfer

Ankara proposes to Russians that Assad relinquish power to rebels in three months

By Stuart Winer

December 14, 2012
12:52 am

Kurdish members of the FSA are seen on a tank stolen from the Syrian Army in Fafeen village, north of Aleppo province, Syria, Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012. (photo credit: Manu Brabo/AP)

Russia positions itself for fall of Syrian regime

Assad’s greatest ally admits his rule is susceptible to overthrow by rebels

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy

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