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In a stormy debate, the two main candidates for U.S. vice president clashed over relations to Russia.
Officials in Russia's second largest city, St. Petersburg, are now required to report about their contacts with foreign entities every three months.
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Senior officials from world powers attending at a donors conference in Brussels have pledged more than $15 billion in aid for Afghanistan during the next four years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will address on October 5 the newly-elected State Duma, as the legislative body hold its first plenary meeting since last month's elections.
Republican Donald Trump's running mate said the United States should use military force against Syrian government targets if Russia continues its "barbaric attack" on Aleppo, in what was one of the talking points of a charged debate with his Democratic opponent that often focused on Russia.
Blunt-spoken Phillippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to "break up" the country's longstanding alliance with the United States and buy arms from Russia and China instead.
Russia has no far-reaching plans to suspend further agreements with the United States after suspending an agreement to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium, the Kremlin said on October 4.
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that that Russia "broke the deal" with the United States to revive a cease-fire in Syria because Moscow has no respect for U.S. Democratic leaders.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry rejected U.S. reports that two officials traveling with diplomatic passports were drugged while attending a conference in St. Petersburg last year, suggesting instead that they might have had too much to drink.
Firms from Kazakhstan and Russia have signed a deal on uranium-enrichment services.
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