BEIJING, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a working visit to China on July 21-22, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said on Tuesday.

TOKYO, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Japan is going to develop investmentcooperation with countries of the Middle East and Central Asia, Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga said before his week-long

BISHKEK, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Another outbreak of anthrax has been registered in Kyrgyzstan, an emergencies ministry official told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - The commemoration of Koreans who fell victim of Japanese militarism during the Second World War, passed in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative centre of t

LONDON, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will join the list of the world five fastest developing economies by 2050, according to a recent report by American bank Goldman Sachs.

MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic will arrive for a working visit in Moscow on July 17 to discuss Kosovo with Russian leaders, a source at the Serbian embassy in R

MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) --Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a government meeting on economic issues on Monday that the Russian economy had become more resistant to shocks in world mark

ASHGABAT, July 15 (Itar-Tass) - Turkmenistan has stressed the"priority of the Caspian gas pipeline project Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Russia" and announced its implementation launch.

ASTANA, July 15 (Itar-Tass) - President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan of the United Arab Emirates will have talks with Kazakhstani leaders on the development of cooperation between the two cou

TEHRAN, July 14 (Itar-Tass) - Tehran hopes for the earliest fulfilment of agreements formulated in the memorandum of understanding that was signed here on Sunday with Russia's natural gas giant Gaz