Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. We use cookies to give you the best online experience. Strictly necessary cookies are on by default. Additional cookies are off by default.

Russia and China gave their blessing to the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline but have yet to agree on pricing, Gazprom said on Tuesday, underscoring President Xi Jinping's disregard for Western demands that he row back from a deepening partnership with Moscow.

China will offer visa-free travel to ordinary passport holders from Russia from September 15, with a maximum period for entry to Beijing set at 30 days.

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. We use cookies to give you the best online experience. Strictly necessary cookies are on by default. Additional cookies are off by default.

By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Images this week of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping seemed to confirm what many experts have already concluded - the U.

Japan will host the Mid-Range Capability, or Typhon, missile system this month, a ground-based launcher that can fire long-range missiles.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin said his ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping are at an "unprecedented level" as the two met in Beijing on the eve of a massive military parade.