MOSCOW, June 3 (UPI) -- There are several reasons for the recent problems in Russian-Chinese military technical cooperation. One was Russia's failure to deliver on a $1.5 billion order for 34 Il-76MD Candid transport and landing aircraft and four Il-78 Midas flying tankers.

MOSCOW, June 2 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's recent visit to China has encouraged economic, cultural and other ties. The parties also signed a whole package of documents, including a $1.5 billion deal on Russia's contribution to China's nuclear power generation.

MOSCOW, May 30 (UPI) -- The idea voiced by General of the Army Yury Baluyevsky, chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, at this year's annual meeting of the Russia-NATO Council is aimed at breaking the current deadlock over the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

MOSCOW, May 29 (UPI) -- General of the Army Yury Baluyevsky, chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, has returned from Brussels, where he took part in the annual summit of the Russia-NATO Council that was held earlier this month. At the summit, Baluyevsky proposed to his colleagues a way out of the deadlock over the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

MOSCOW, May 6 (UPI) -- On April 29 representatives of the Kazan Aircraft Production Association presented the 121st Heavy Bomber Regiment of the Russian Air Force's 37th Army with a brand-new Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber.

MOSCOW, April 16 (UPI) -- Those in charge of NATO's BMD project can't decide what air defense systems they should buy -- but they insist they should be American rather than Russian.

MOSCOW, April 15 (UPI) -- The results of the Bucharest NATO summit, the NATO-Russia Council meetings, and talks between U.S. President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi have been summed up in what has now become a standard comment: The NATO summit made up for suspending the Membership Action Plan for Ukraine and Georgia with the full support for the deployment of an American missile shield in Europe.

MOSCOW, April 4 (UPI) -- It was reported last month that chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, four-star Army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky was going to retire. There was no official denial of this report, and political analysts have interpreted it as valid.

MOSCOW, March 26 (UPI) -- Sources in the Russian Defense Ministry are very dubious about the new U.S. proposals. Off the record, they insist that all proposals brought by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Moscow this time do not change the gist of the problem.