MOSCOW, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Russia's new military policy will include changing the scenarios that could trigger the use of nuclear weapons or preventive strikes, officials said Thursday.

MOSCOW, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Russia's security chief, Nikolai Patrushev, says Russian scientists are not helping Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, a diplomatic sore spot.

WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- The Russian government doesn't believe that military forces should be reduced in the coming decades, unlike American liberals, but it does believe in global warming, unlike many American conservatives.

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- Russian and NATO leaders have very different conceptions on the future nature of modern war --and the Russian ideas seem to be grounded in a lot more realism.

WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- Russia has approved a new national-security strategy that, while short in detail, visualizes more than a decade of suspicious confrontation with the United States and its NATO allies.

WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- Russia has launched a long-term program for the next 12 years to boost its security forces and military presence in the resource-rich Arctic Ocean.

MOSCOW, March 4 (UPI) -- As Russia crafts a new budget to fight the deepening recession, rival loyalists of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev square off.

MOSCOW, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- There is every reason to say that Russia has started reasserting its global position. This includes big-time politics and efforts to expand scientific and military-technical cooperation with other countries, including Cuba, the Soviet Union's main Latin American ally.

MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Russia must secure its territory in the Arctic and improve infrastructure to allow it to exploit oil and natural gas reserves, President Dmitry Medvedev said.