Vladimir Isachenkov

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Russia seeks to cool Assad’s head

Vladimir Isachenkov · July 25, 2012 7:25 pm

Russia warns Syria against using chemical weapons

Vladimir Isachenkov · July 24, 2012 11:03 pm

Russia slams Britain over Syria-bound ship

Vladimir Isachenkov · June 21, 2012 6:18 pm

Report: Russia to send marines to Syria

Vladimir Isachenkov · June 18, 2012 6:26 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 15, 2012. Lavrov said Friday that Moscow isn't discussing Syria's future without President Bashar Assad as Washington has claimed. Sergey Lavrov denied Thursday's statement by State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland that Moscow and Washington "are continuing to talk about a post-Assad transition strategy." (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia denies discussing Syria’s post-Assad future

Vladimir Isachenkov · June 15, 2012 7:10 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2005 file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a signing ceremony in the Kremlin, Moscow. Russia has shielded Syrian President Bashar Assadâs regime, its last ally in the Arab world, from international sanctions and has continued to provide it with weapons despite international outrage. It has shipped billions of dollars worth of missiles, combat jets, tanks, artillery and other military gear to Syria over more than four decades. (AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool-File)

A closer look at Russian arms sales to Syria

Vladimir Isachenkov · June 14, 2012 8:22 pm

FILE In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008 file photo, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the prosecutors' Investigative Committee, walks during a meeting in the Moscow Kremlin. Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta where Anna Politkovskaya worked before her 2006 murder, said Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in an open letter to Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin that he should offer security guarantees to reporter Sergei Sokolov. Muratov said that Bastrykin was angered by a Novaya Gazeta article that accused him of failing to punish the perpetrators of a 2010 killing of 12 people, including four children, by a gang in southern Russia. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Presidential Press Service, file)

Russia: Editor claims official threatened reporter

Vladimir Isachenkov · June 13, 2012 2:13 pm