UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her Russian counterpart as the country's neighbors pressed the United Nations to stand up to Moscow.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Its recent invasion of Georgia shows that Russia is actually a "weak" nation not a re-assertive one, said a top U.S. diplomat.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The scale of the Bush administration's failures in Georgia is now becoming clear: The issue was not just a routine bungle; it was a fiasco of monumental proportions.

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Russia says it's counting on the United States to exert influence on Georgia to tone down its conflict with the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.

WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- Azerbaijan needs to use its oil and gas revenues in a positive fashion to avoid a corrupt economic and political environment, the U.S. State Department said.

MOSCOW, May 5 (UPI) -- On May 2, the foreign ministers of Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany met in London to discuss a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear problem.

MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Daniel Fried, assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs at the U.S. State Department, said last week that Washington could change its approach to developing its anti-ballistic missile, or ABM, shield in Europe opposed by Russia if Iran were to suspend uranium enrichment in its nuclear program "and worked with the international community, and had a different approach to things."

MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- On Oct. 12-13, the Russian and American foreign and defense ministers are planning to discuss in Moscow the U.S. plan to create the third position area in Europe for its national missile defense system. By tradition, on the eve of the meeting the sides outlined their positions on the issue.

WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Poland’s early parliamentary polls may delay Warsaw-Washington talks on deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe, Polish Radio said Monday.