NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen this week asked the Kremlin to provide Russian helicopters and spare parts to bolster the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Russian assistance to NATO has been in the offing since the Russia's "reset" with the

Nauru, a Pacific island nation of just 11,000 people, this week became the fourth country to recognize the independence of the break-away Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. While Russia was accused of buying Nauru's loyalty with $50 million