BRUSSELS, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Russia's envoy to NATO says his country's navy is maintaining constant contact with the alliance in the search for a missing Russian cargo ship.

MOSCOW, June 5 (UPI) -- Russia won't cut its nuclear arsenal until the controversy over U.S. missile defense plans for Europe is resolved, a Russia military official said Friday.

BRUSSELS, May 8 (UPI) -- Moscow still regards NATO as a partner even though relations have been strained by an alliance exercise in Georgia, a Russian diplomat says.

MOSCOW, April 30 (UPI) -- NATO's decision to expel two Russian diplomats from its Brussels headquarters is a "scandalous" provocation, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

MOSCOW, April 18 (UPI) -- Russia's envoy to NATO called the alliance's upcoming military exercises in Georgia an act of "insanity" and called for them to be canceled.

BRUSSELS, April 1 (UPI) -- Moscow prefers to remain a NATO observer rather than become a member, but doesn't rule out joining in the future, the Russian envoy to the alliance says.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- NATO and Russia held high-level talks Friday in their first meeting since Moscow invaded Georgia in August.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- An informal meeting between NATO and Russian envoy Dmitry Rogozin is on tap after the two sides agreed this month to resume relations, officials say.

HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday his country is fully prepared to resume positive relations with NATO.