Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the Kremlin had taken a "dark turn" and that a "paranoid, aggressive impulse" from the Russian past was reappearing.

The American Vice President, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, want to press the "reset" button in US relations with Russia, after the tensions of the later Bush years. Alas, President Barack Obama's trip to Moscow is likely to prove how difficult this will be, especially when an authoritarian regime in the Kremlin hankers for Soviet-era "parity" with the US.

Russia's ambassador to London has blamed Britain for the poor state of Anglo-Russian relations because it provides refuge for critics of the Kremlin.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged European foreign ministers to maintain a unified front to roll back the Kremlin's military intervention into Georgia.

Some investors say the company too often sacrifices the bottom line to satisfy the Kremlin - for example, by selling subsidized natural gas to Russia's former Soviet allies.

If a stock market falls, but no one hears about it, did it really happen? That seems to be part of the Kremlin's strategy for addressing Russia's jittery economy. The Moscow Times' Anna Smolchenko reports that state television channels have been instructed to downplay the severity of the financial meltdown: The main channels have either downgraded or ignored altogether Russia's...

On the first day of a tour into Russia's back yard, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, moved carefully to reaffirm American support for Ukraine, while cautiously expressing concern over an alleged Kremlin-style roll-back in liberties

Russia has a huge obligation not to begin a new cold war, Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned yesterday as he accused the Kremlin of trying to redraw the map of Europe.

For a laugh, I thought I'd watch Russia Today, the Kremlin's propaganda channel to see what Russians are being told about the conflict in Georgia, and it was clear that the Kremlin has a new agenda. Last week the Russia Today line (fed to them and read out by british journalists taking the money and caring little about the real news) was that the "Fascist democratic government of Georgia...

For a laugh, I thought I'd watch Russia Today, the Kremlin's propaganda channel to see what Russians are being told about the conflict in Georgia, and it was clear that the Kremlin has a new agenda. Last week the Russia Today line (fed to them and read out by british journalists taking the money and caring little about the real news) was that the "Fascist democratic government of Georgia...