Topic: Yury Baluyevsky

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.

KIEV, Ukraine, April 12 (UPI) -- The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Saturday Russia should "stop the practice of threats" over Ukraine's attempts to join NATO.

MOSCOW, April 11 (UPI) -- Russia says it would have to strengthen border security if Georgia and Ukraine join NATO.

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.

MOSCOW, March 25 (UPI) -- The head of the Russian military said he tendered his resignation following a row with the defense minister over the restructuring of the armed forces.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Since the collapse of communism it has been widely assumed by U.S. policymakers that gigantic, full-scale land wars on major continents involving hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops have become inconceivable.

MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- If the Kremlin's new military doctrine endorses the General Staff's nuclear ideas, Russia will have new armed forces, with all the ensuing consequences.

MOSCOW, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Barely a month into the new year, the Russian military has already attracted a lot of attention. Following a mild verbal skirmish over anti-ballistic missile components after the holidays, Russian and foreign generals have decided to talk in the open.

MOSCOW, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Russia's top military commander said Saturday that if his country or its allies are attacked, it is prepared to use nuclear weapons if necessary.