Topic: Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday announced that Russia would build a high-tech hub near Moscow to spur modernization of the economy and reduce its dependence on oil and gas. The center, designed to develop five priority sectors -- energy, IT, telecommunications, bio-medical and atomic technologies -- will be built near Skolkovo, a new private-sector business school in the Moscow region ...
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton says Washington and Moscow are making "substantial progress" in negotiating a replacement pact to an expired strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty. Clinton spoke Thursday in Moscow during a two-day visit for talks on a range of international issues. The long-awaited ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday in a last-minute addition to her visit to Moscow, a U.S. official told reporters. Clinton arrived in Russia on Thursday to try to clear obstacles to a new treaty cutting arsenals of nuclear weapons and to win Moscow's backing for ...
