MOSCOW, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Russia is mulling the purchase of a French-made helicopter carrier, continuing the shift away from its longtime strategy of producing its own security equipment.

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Russian Chief of Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov said Wednesday his country and the United States are undecided on a joint site to monitor rocket launches.

MOSCOW, July 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen and Russian Gen. Nikolai Makarov signed an agreement for the resumption of joint military activities, suspended since August 2008.

PARIS, June 17 (UPI) -- Israel's defense minister asked Russia to halt arms sales to Iran and Syria at a meeting with the Russian chief of staff at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget.

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.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Russia's hard-charging chief of the general staff pledged Monday to complete the long-delayed and fiercely opposed restructuring of the Russian armed forces over the next four years.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Russia's latest test launch of its long-troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile was another failure, and it was more costly than most as the Russian government had already approved the missile for full-scale production.

MOSCOW, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Russia won't invade Georgia despite concerns about the possibility of Georgia escalating tensions in the Caucasus, a Russian military official said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- When the top military commanders who run the U.S. and Russian armed forces on a daily basis met for important but very low-profile talks outside Helsinki, Finland, in October, the range of issues they discussed covered the whole world.