Moscow  - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for a radical reform to the global financial order Wednesday, saying the United States has become the affliction and could no longer provide for world markets.

Medvedev said he bring these demands before world leaders at a summit on the financial crisis in Washington on November 15 and seek support for a new international accord.

Moscow  - President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in its Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad in answer to US plans to site a missile defence system in Eastern Europe.

Moscow - Russia said Wednesday it anticipated a "fresh approach" to leave behind the "stereotypes" in relations with the United States after Barack Obama's victory in the presidential elections.

"The US election result testifies to the fact that everyone correctly counted on a fresh US approach to all the major problems," Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told news agency Interfax on Wednesday.

"We believe that the US president will himself shape the tone of relations with Russia. As to the president's advisors, they will also have the possibility to look in a new way at the old approaches and maybe to review the stereotypes that earlier were intrinsic to them," Karasin said.

Moscow - Russian police arrested more than 300 right-wing extremists in Moscow T

Moscow - Russian police arrested over 100 neo-Nazi demonstrators at an unsanctioned march Tuesday in Moscow, the Interfax agency reported.

Moscow - Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, speaking Saturday on the first full day of his visit to Russia, said the visit was giving a fresh impulse to relations between Moscow and Tripoli.

Cooperation in the energy sector was of particular importance at the moment, he was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying during a meeting with president Dmitri Medvedev.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was meanwhile quoted as saying talks on arms sales to Libya would take more time.