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May 14, 2013
8:28 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to Russia on Tuesday, May 14 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu travels to Russia for missile talks

Prime minister will try to convince Putin to halt transfer of game-changing S-300 anti-aircraft weapons to Syria; Arab newspaper says rockets may already be there

By Vladimir Isachenikov

February 13, 2013
11:42 am

Anatoly Isaikin, the head of Russia's state arms trader Rosoboronexport, speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian state arms dealer to continue shipments to Syria

Rosoboronexport director says sales of defense weapons to Assad regime not prohibited by the UN

By Vladimir Isachenikov

December 29, 2012
6:10 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and UN envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29 (photo credit: AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

UN envoy warns Syrian collapse threatens region, says conflict is becoming ‘more and more sectarian’

Russia’s Lavrov says the price of the opposition’s demand for Assad’s resignation will be the loss of more Syrian lives

By Vladimir Isachenikov