The World Bank works together with national governments to implement the goals of the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions. In his exclusive interview with RT, Klaus Rohland, the World Bank's Chief Representative in Russia, discussed the country’s progress towards its Kyoto targets.

Political analyst with the National Prospects Foundation, Alexey Kuzmin, spoke to RT about the ongoing war of words between Georgia and Russia.

Greek PM Costas Karamanlis is visiting Moscow to finalise the deal for Russian oil and gas deliveries to southern Europe. Thanassis Avgerinos from Greek Mega TV, joined RT to talk more about the visit and the crucial energy accord.

Despite reports that Russia's oil production has peaked, Lukoil plans to increase oil output over the next ten years. The president of Russia’s biggest oil producer, Vagit Alekeprov, spoke exclusively to RT about the company’s plans for the future.

The world's leading aluminium company Rusal has bought a 25% plus one share stake in Norilsk Nickel from billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Tim McCutcheon from DBM Capital joined RT for an in-depth analysis of the purchase.

Russian forests could produce enough bio fuel to meet Europe's needs, according to the Chief of the Federal Forestry Service, Valery Roshchupkin. He spoke to RT about the industry's challenges.

Russia’s billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is going to invest millions of dollars into his newly-announced media venture "Snobs" - a magazine and a TV channel for the wealthy. The magnate spoke exclusively to RT about his plans.

The UN Security Council has failed to rule on tensions between Moscow and Tbilisi over the breakaway region of Abkhazia. Aleksey Kuzmin from the National Prospects Foundation doesn’t see the UN being decisive on the issue.

General David Petraeus has been nominated to be the next Chief of U.S. Central Command. RT military analyst Evgeny Khrushchev shared his view on his decision.

Abkhazia says it was their air force that shot down a Georgian spy drone on Sunday. Abkhazian leader Sergey Bagapsh spoke exclusively to RT about the incident.

How will Russia fare at Euro-2008? Can Russia's Zenit go all the way in the UEFA Cup? These were some of the questions posed to former Russian playmaker Aleksandr Mostovoy in an exclusive interview with Russia Today.

The longer the American Democrats take to decide on their candidate for the U.S. presidential race, the better for John McCain, believes political analyst Konstantin Beloruchev.

Russia has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates, bringing it a step closer to joining the WTO. In an exclusive interview with RT, Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin said the country is now on the verge of full membership.

Putin’s decision to accept the leadership of United Russia means he is ready to take responsibility for any political or economic crisis faced by the country, says political analyst Mikhail Stolyarov.

After visiting a 60s inspired charity show in Moscow, American socialite Paris Hilton spoke to RT about fashion and... Russian women.

A Russian capsule carrying crew from the International Space Station has successfully landed. However, space expert Alain Fournier-Sicre says not everything went smoothly.

Russia now has more than 100 billionaires, according to the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. Boris Kagarlitsky from the Institute of Globalisation and Social Movements says the increase goes hand-in-hand with growing social inequality.

Moscow is preparing to host talks this June aimed at resolving the crisis in the Middle East. Vyacheslav Matuzov from the Russian-Palestinian Friendship and Cooperation Society, says not all parties to the peace process are ready to give a green light to Russia’s initiative.

Political analyst Dmitry Babich says Italian business supports Berlusconi’s plans to boost ties with Russia. However, Babich says, the EU and sections of the Italian political elite oppose them.

A recent law limiting foreign access to strategic sectors is not meant to put off investors in any way. Communications Minister Leonid Reiman says the new rules won’t affect the telecoms sector at all.

President Putin and Premier-elect Berlusconi are meeting in Sardinia. Old allies on the international stage, the two men have a ‘chemistry between them’, says Beatrice Ottaviano, bureau chief of an Italian news agency Nazionale Stampa Associata.

New Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi kicks off his foreign policy programme by meeting President Putin. The pair have enjoyed a long and warm relationship. RAI correspondent Carlo Lo Savio explains what they have in common.

Moscow will host talks this summer aimed at brokering peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Irina Zvyagelskaya from the Institute of Oriental Studies discusses the relevance of the summit.

President Putin is in Libya to sign major financial and economic deals with Muammar Gaddafi.The director of the conventional arms programme at the Centre for policy studies, Vadim Kozyulin, puts them in context.

Vladimir Putin is set to remain in the forefront of Russian politics as the head United Russia and as Prime Minister. Aleksandr Pikaev, political analyst from the Institute for World Economy and International Relations, gives his reaction.

Weapons deals as well as oil and gas contracts are set to dominate President Putin’s visit to Libya. Vladimir Orlov, the director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Moscow, looks at trade ties between the two countries.

Russia will start using government money this week to protect its banks from the effects of the global credit squeeze. Neil Withers, advisor to the chairman of the Vozrozhdenie Bank, explains the thinking behind the initiative.

Political analyst, professor Mikhail Stolyarov, talks to RT about how Putin is juggling three jobs: President, party leader and prime minister in waiting.

Vladimir Putin’s decision to take charge of United Russia, the country’s principal political party, has given rise to intense debate. In his interview with RT, writer Matthew Maly says Putin has contributed a lot to making a so-called “win-win” strategy the prevailing method of social interaction in Russia.

Russo-British relations have been at a low ebb in recent years and several UK investors in Russia say they're experiencing difficulties. Chief Executive of the UK Trade and Investment Andrew Cahn spoke to RT on the state of economic ties between the countries.

Putin’s agreement to head the ruling party creates an interesting new system of checks and balances, according to political analyst from the Carnegie Centre in Moscow, Nikolay Petrov.

Putin’s decision to lead Russia’s main political party has put the country’s power structures in the spotlight. Analyst and journalist Aleksey Pushkov attempts to untangle the issues.

Vladimir Putin has agreed to head Russia’s majority United Russia Party. Political commentator for state television’s First Channel, Sergey Brylev, says that for the first time in Russia, the PM will be a leader of a political party.

Vladimir Putin has accepted the leadership of the ruling United Russia Party. Dmitry Babich, a political analyst with Russia Profile magazine, says the position of chairman is extremely powerful.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon met with Russia’s FM in Moscow. Aleksandr Pikaev from the Commitee of Scientists for Global Security says reforms in the UN would directly affect the interests of all the world’s major powers.

The Russian market has seen talk of interest rate rises, as the Central Bank deals with worse-than-expected inflation data. Aleksandr Kotchoubey, the head of investment Committee at Renaissance Investment Management, discussed the issue with RT.

Russia should be more involved in UN peacekeeping missions, according to Aleksey Borisov - deputy chair of the United Nations Association of Russia. He says as a co-founder of the UN, Russia is responsible for international peace

Poland has threatened to maintain its veto on EU-Russia partnership talks. To look in closer detail at it may mean, Dmitry Babich from Russia Profile magazine spoke to RT.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday. Victoria Panova, a political analyst from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, discusses the meeting’s agenda.

Lieutenant General Raad Al-Hamdani, the Commander-in-Chief of the second corps in the Iraqi Republican Army gave an exclusive interview to Rusiya Al-Yaum - Russia Today’s sister channel, broadcasting in Arabic.

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is discussing ways to reform the organisation with Russia's leadership. The Editor-in-Chief of "Russia in Global Affairs" magazine, Fyodor Lukyanov, says the main problem is that UN member states are not ready to compromise.

RT caught up with Natalia Solzhenitsyna at a book launch of her husband, writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's latest biography. This is the full version of the inverview.

Russia's lower house of parliament is considering changes to adoption laws. Elena Zotova, from the UN children's fund UNICEF, joined RT to discuss the adoption debate.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is on his first official visit to Russia. Yury Shishaev from the UN Information Centre in Moscow explains the special reason for the visit and the issues to be discussed.

The U.S. top commander in Iraq is warning there will be a delay in the withdrawal of American troops which means little will change before a new President is installed next year. RT military analyst Evgeny Khrushchev takes a look at the situation.

RT caught up with Natalia Solzhenitsyna at a book launch of her husband, writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn's latest biography.

Russian economic and finance ministers disagree about plans for spending oil and gas money. Yaroslav Lissovolik, chief economist at Deutsche Bank, joined RT to discuss how to drive the economy without boosting inflation.

The three year budget being prepared by the Russian Finance Ministry is looking more harzadous than previous years, according to Evgeny Gavrilenkov, the chief economist from Troika Dialog Investment Bank.

No compromise, but a willingness to continue working together. That’s the result of the final Putin-Bush summit in Sochi, according to Evgeny Bazhanov, Vice-President of the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow.

Moscow and Washington failed to see eye to eye on a lot of issues during the final summit between Vladimir Putin and George Bush in Sochi. The director of the Centre for Global Problems at Moscow State University of International Relations, Viktor Sergeev, tells us why.

Although Vladimir Putin and George Bush signed a framework agreement shaping future relations between the two countries, there are still many issues on which they fail to agree. Political analyst Aleksandr Nagorny outlines the differences.

Serbia's Foreign Minister says Belgrade will go to the International court of Justice over Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence. Vuk Jeremich spoke to RT in New York.

Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush have met in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi. Charles A. Kupchan, Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University in Washington DC commented to RT on the summit outcome.

In the dispute over U.S. missile defences in Europe, Moscow’s political elite would prefer tough negotiators on both sides, says Ruslan Pukhov from the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.

NATO will be sticking to its guns under a new U.S. president. But the alliance could find tough opposition from a Russia with two strong leaders – Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, says security expert Andrey Demurenko.

The main outcome of the Sochi summit is that both Russia and the U.S. have expressed a willingness to settle their differences, according to political analyst Kirill Koktysh.

George W. Bush is following a U.S. tradition in trying to sort out as many problems as possible before handing over to a new president. That’s according to Aleksey Kuzmin, a political analyst from the National Prospects Foundation.

Presidents Putin and Bush will hold what’s expected to be their last official meeting as leaders on Sunday. Political observer of the Russia Profile magazine, Dmitry Babich, spoke to RT about the prospects for the talks, being held in Sochi – host-city of the the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Dr Ariel Cohen from the Heritage Foundation in Washington joined RT to comment on the outcome of the NATO summit and the upcoming meeting between the Russian and U.S. Presidents in Sochi.

Friday’s session of the NATO-Russia Council in Bucharest was a step in improving relations between Moscow and the alliance, says Aleksandr Pikaev from the Institute for World Economy and International Relations.

The head of Google in Russia, Vladimir Dolgov, says that making Google a ‘real Russian search engine’ wasn’t an easy task because of the language peculiarities. See his exclusive interview with RT.

Russia is unlikely to soften its stance on NATO expansion or on the deployment of missile defence elements in Europe. That’s according to Viktor Linnikm, editor-in-chief of the Slovo weekly newspaper.

Bucharest is hosting its first NATO summit this week. Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's envoy to NATO, commented on the results of the summit for RT.

NATO has postponed Georgia and Ukraine’s entry to alliance. One of the reasons for this is Russia’s influence within the organisation, says Spencer Boyer from the Center for American Progress.

Germany has never concealed its opposition to Georgia and Ukraine joining NATO. Sonja Zekri of the German newspaper, Zuddeuetsche Zeitung, says as long as nothing changes in Tsibilii and Kiev, Germany has no reason to shift its position.

NATO members have postponed entry for Georgia and Ukraine. Ivan Safranchuk, a political analyst from the World Security Institute, says only a few political forces in Ukraine want to join the alliance.

To discuss the latest developments from the current NATO Bucharest summit, Dmitry Suslov from the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy joined our political analyst Peter Lavelle in the RT studio.

NATO leaders have put off a decision on Ukraine’s and Georgia’s applications to join the alliance. Aslan Abashidze from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia analyses the latest developments.

Ukraine and Georgia's attempts to join NATO are set to be blocked by old members. Vadim Kozyulin, director of the conventional arms programme from the centre for policy studies in Russia, discusses the Bucharest summit.

On the eve of Vladimir Putin's arrival at the Russia-NATO Council session in Bucharest, Dmitry Peskov, First Deputy Press Attache to the Russian President, discussed the council's agenda exclusively with RT.

As the NATO summit kicked off in Bucharest on Wednesday, Michael McFaul, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, joined RT to give his views on NATO's expansion plans.

Bucharest is hosting its first NATO summit this week. Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s envoy to NATO, thinks the issue of Afghanistan is in fact a key tension point for the whole Bucharest summit.

Vladimir Putin is to take part in a Russia-NATO session at the Atlantic alliance’s summit in Bucharest. Alexandr Konovalov, President of the Institute of Strategic Assessments, outlines the main topics of the talks.

The eastward expansion of NATO takes centre stage at a key summit in Romania. Political analyst and President of the Eurasia foundation, Andrey Kortunov, looks at the prospects for the meeting.

Bush’s support of Ukraine and Georgia’s bid for NATO membership does not give them automatic entry, points out Andrew Kuchins from the Center of Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

President Bush is backing Ukraine's bid to join NATO. Professor Leonid Gusev of the Moscow State University of International Relations told RT about the benefits America could get from the move.

US President George Bush is in Kiev discussing prospects for Ukraine's NATO membership. Political analyst Kirill Koktysh from Moscow's University of Foreign Relations joined RT studio live for more insight into George Bush's visit to Ukraine.