Nations discuss Cooperative Airspace Initiative progress
May, 13 2013
On 19 April NATO-Russia Council nations participating in the Cooperative Airspace Initiative (CAI) met in Brussels to chart progress made on the system in recent months as well as prepare for the Live Exercise that will put CAI to the test in September later this year.
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NRC military representatives meet in Brussels
May, 08 2013
On 2 May, the military representatives of the NATO-Russia Council met in Brussels to take stock of ongoing military to military cooperation.
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Counter narcotics training committee takes stock of 2013 work
April, 29 2013
Representatives from NATO-Russia Council Counter Narcotics Training Project contributing nations met in Brussels on 19 April, to review training underway, and taking place in 2013. They were updated on the great start to 2013, with around eight counter narcotics training courses taking place in April alone. This month’s training is taking place at fixed training centres in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ankara, and Krasnoyarsk as well as mobile training in Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
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Ministers Launch Afghan Helicopter Project’s Second Phase
April, 23 2013
NATO-Russia Council Foreign Ministers officially launched the second phase of the Helicopter Maintenance Trust Fund today. Phase 2 will significantly expand the assistance the Trust Fund is providing to the Afghan Air Force. Not only will it offer more maintenance training on Mi-17 and Mi-35 helicopters, as well as spare parts. It will also support the Medical Evacuation capabilities of the Afghan Air Force by providing a conversion kit to transform a Mi-17 helicopter into a fully equipped flying ambulance.
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NRC Chairman's Foreign Ministerial Opening Remarks
April, 23 2013
NRC Chairman Anders Fogh Rasmussen's opening remarks at the NATO-Russia Council Foreign Ministerial in Brussels, 23rd of April 2013.
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Updated NRC Factsheet Now Online
April, 22 2013
The latest version of the NATO-Russia Council Practical Cooperation Factsheet can now be accessed online and downloaded from our documents section. The factsheet covers all aspects of practical cooperation that takes place in the framework of the NATO-Russia Council, and provides updated information on activities taking place in 2013.
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Sharing Experience on Building Military Camps
April, 22 2013
Military engineers from NATO-Russia Council nations and the UN met in Italy to exchange information on camp building logistics and engineering, and observe practical demonstrations between the 26-27th of March.
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NATO and Russian Warships Hone Counter Piracy Skills
April, 22 2013
Over the weekend of 23rd and 24th March USS Nicholas, part of NATO’s counter piracy task force, and Russia’s RFS Severomorsk participated in a two day exercise at sea to strengthen ongoing NATO-Russia cooperation on counter piracy in the region.
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Linguistic Experts meet in Moscow
April, 15 2013
The NRC’s Expert Group on Terminology met in Moscow from Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 April and continued its work on the NRC Glossary on Ammunition Demilitarization.
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NATO Deputy Secretary General Talks about Moscow Visit
April, 03 2013
NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Vershbow spoke to www.nato-russia-council.info today following a busy visit to Russia. Ambassador Vershbow was in Moscow for meetings with his Russian counterparts about developing cooperation between NATO and Russia through the NATO-Russia Council. During his trip he also spoke to the media for a number of interviews and attended a reunion of Russian and U.S. Ambassadors.
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Russia's Ambassador in Kabul Speaks to the NRC
April, 02 2013
Russian Ambassador to Kabul, Andrey Avetisyan speaking to the NATO-Russia Council website team after his recent briefing to NRC ambassadors about Afghanistan, gave us his views on NRC cooperation on Afghanistan.
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Expanding Scientific Cooperation
April, 02 2013
The NATO-Russia Council Science for Peace and Security Committee met in Brussels on 25 March 2013. Science and security is a growing field of NATO-Russia cooperation. The committee discussed the rapidly expanding Telemedicine initiative, as well as counter-terrorism cooperation through the STANDEX project, a jointly-developed technology to detect concealed explosives from a distance.
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Russian Students Run the NATO-Russia Council For a Day
March, 28 2013
On the 27th March 2013, Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU), with support of the NATO Information Office (NIO) in Russia, hosted a role play called “Partnership of Russia and NATO in the framework of addressing contemporary challenges and threats”. Students of this prestigious university played the roles of Permanent Representatives of member states of the NATO-Russia Council, with two of them actually rotating to act as the Secretary General and Chairman of the NRC.
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Afghanistan Talks Held in Moscow
March, 18 2013
NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Operations Stephen Evens was in Moscow on 14 March to discuss Afghanistan with senior Russian officials. Ambassador Evans held talks with Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov and the Russian President’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.
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NRC Project Shares Experiences with Paris Pact Partners
March, 14 2013
On 7 March, the NRC Counter Narcotics Training Project participated in the 10th Policy Consultative Group Meeting in the Paris Pact framework in Vienna. Implemented by the NRC and UNODC, the counter narcotics training project is a flagship example of the regionally-focused counter narcotics work that the Paris Pact initiative aims to strengthen.
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Helicopter Trust Fund Goes From Strength to Strength
March, 13 2013
The NATO-Russia Council Helicopter Maintenance Trust Fund is going from strength to strength in 2013, with a range of activities underway or about to start. The final group of 11 Afghan technicians, from the first phase of the project, are currently being trained in Mi-17 maintenance at the Novosibirsk Aircraft Repair Plant.
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Improving Military Medical Care
March, 07 2013
Military medicine has often been at the forefront of innovation in medicine. The extreme circumstances, not seen in civilian life, necessitate innovative responses, in turn the advances made by military medicine are now being implemented in civilian hospitals around the world.
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Counter Piracy Training at Sea
March, 04 2013
The NATO flagship ITS SAN MARCO, in charge of Operation Ocean Shield, and the Russian Federation ship SEVEROMORSK trained together in counter-piracy activities in the Gulf of Aden on 26 February.
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NRC Chairman & Russian Foreign Minister discuss cooperation
February, 19 2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited NATO HQ on Monday 18 February for a bilateral meeting with NATO-Russia Council Chairman Anders Fogh Rasmussen. They covered a number of areas of ongoing practical cooperation and prospects for future interaction.
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NATO-Russia military-to-military direct line
February, 18 2013
On 14 February 2013, General Knud Bartels, Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee and Chairman of the NRC Military Representatives, initiated a phone call with Colonel-General Valeriy Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, enhancing military-to-military cooperation and promoting confidence between NATO and Russia.
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NRC Terminology Experts Meet
February, 14 2013
Linguistic experts from NATO and the Russian Ministry of Defence Military University met to discuss ongoing cooperation through the NRC Expert Group on Terminology (NRC(EGT). Their work this year will focus on developing two new glossaries to facilitate practical cooperation in Ammunition Demilitarisation/Disposal and Counter-Narcotics.
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Latest on NRC Counter-Terrorism Cooperation
February, 13 2013
The NATO-Russia Council Ad Hoc Working Group on the Terrorist Threat to the Euro-Atlantic Area has got its activity for the year underway with two meetings already having taken place in 2013. During its second meeting on 4 February, the group was given a briefing about the Stand-Off Detection of Explosives (STANDEX) technology project.
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Ambassadors Grushko & Brengelmann Interviewed: NRC 10 Years
February, 05 2013
In 2012 NATO-Russia Council celebrated its tenth anniversary since its creation in Rome with the signing of the declaration NATO-Russia Relations: A New Quality. To mark the ten years, the NRC Website interviewed NRC Preparatory Committee Chairman, Ambassador Dirk Brengelmann, and Russian Ambassador to NATO, Ambassador Alexander Grushko, getting their firsthand insights on the creation, success and future of the NRC.
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NRC Scientists Cooperating to Detect Baltic Oil Spills
January, 28 2013
Ensuring environmental security is a present-day challenge all NRC nations are faced with. One NRC Science for Peace and Security (SPS) project in particular, is already tackling a significant environmental threat in the Baltic Sea, and in the process, taking on an ambitious task to become a leading region for environmental safety and security. The project aims to improve the detection of oil spills in the Baltic Sea.
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Russian Task Force Prepares for Counter Piracy Operations
January, 27 2013
A task force from the Russian Navy’s North Sea Fleet, led by the anti-submarine warfare ship RS Severomorsk made a call in the port of Souda Crete, between the 14th and 17th of January. During the stop-over, officers and marines from the task force took part in supplementary training at the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre. The RS Severomorsk will now head to the Horn of Africa to take part in Counter-Piracy operations following the training.
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NRC Chiefs of Defence Staff Approve 2013 Work Plan
January, 18 2013
Among wider discussion on continued military practical cooperation, the Chiefs of Staff approved the NRC Military Representatives' Work Plan for 2013 at their meeting in Brussels.
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NATO-Russia Council Non-Proliferation Meeting in Brussels
January, 16 2013
A NATO-Russia Council Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Working Group plenary meeting discussed important non-proliferation developments in 2012 as well as their policy priorities in this field for 2013.
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Busy 2013 Ahead for NRC
December, 20 2012
In 2012 we celebrated the 10 years anniversary of the creation of the NATO-Russia Council by looking back over our successful practical cooperation since Rome 2002, with the '10 years 10 stories’ feature.
Now the approach of the end of 2012 provides the perfect opportunity to take a look at the year to come, and the many cooperative activities planned to take place.
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NRC conference on countering improvised explosive devices
December, 19 2012
On 11 and 12 December 2012, the Counter Improvised Explosive Devices Centre of Excellence (C-IED COE) in Hoyo de Mazanares, Spain hosted a conference of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC). The conference focused on the threat posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which is not limited to theatres of operations and affects each of the countries of the NRC.
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NRC Counter Piracy Glossary published
December, 13 2012
A new NRC Glossary on Counter Piracy has been published, and is now available to download from the NRC Website here. The Russian-English/English-Russian glossary was created to facilitate NRC cooperation in counter piracy
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NRC Foreign Ministers Approve Work Programme for 2013
December, 06 2012
On Tuesday 4 December NRC Foreign Ministers met in Brussels for a working lunch. Subjects on the agenda for the meeting included approving the NRC Work Programme for 2013.
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NRC Holds Seminar on High Visibility Events
December, 03 2012
The NRC Ad Hoc Working Group on the Terrorist Threat to the Euro-Atlantic Area and the NRC Civil Emergency Planning and Protection Working Group held a joint seminar on hosting High Visibility Events on 28 November. This is an area of considerable interest for NRC nations, as many of them have either hosted or are preparing to host High Visibility Events, including the Olympics and the football World Cup.
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Supporting Afghanistan’s Helicopters: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
November, 30 2012
In the space of two years the NRC Helicopter Maintenance Trust Fund has already become one of the NRC’s most high profile and successful cooperative projects. The aim of the Trust Fund is to enable the Afghan Air Force (AAF) to operate its fleet of 36 Mi-17 and 11 Mi-35 helicopters more effectively, by providing training for helicopter maintenance technicians and sorely needed helicopter spare parts.
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NRC Ambassadors Prepare for Foreign Ministers
November, 29 2012
NRC Ambassadors met yesterday, to prepare for the meeting of NRC Foreign Ministers, which is due to take place on 4 December. Topics on the agenda included the wide range of practical cooperation taking place in NRC Working Groups, including projects on Afghanistan, counter narcotics and counter terrorism.
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STANDEX Counter Terrorism Project: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
November, 23 2012
The countries of the NATO-Russia Council decided to work together to develop technology to help counter terrorists attacks of the kind seen on mass transport in cities including London, Madrid and Moscow. In 2009, the NATO-Russia Council launched a project for the Stand-Off Detection of Explosives (STANDEX) on suicide bombers in mass transport.
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Helicopter Maintenance Trust Fund Executive Steering Committee meets
November, 20 2012
The Helicopter Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) Executive Steering Committee met in Brussels last week on the 15th of November to discuss the project’s progress, and future potential.
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NRC Counter Narcotics Success: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
November, 19 2012
The NRC Counter Narcotics training project for Afghan, Central Asian and Pakistani personnel is one of the NRC’s most ambitious and successful projects. Working together with the UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia as the project’s executing agent, these ambitions have been translated into concrete results in the fight against illegal drugs trafficking since it began in 2006.
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NATO-Russia Military Conference Takes Place
November, 16 2012
A NATO-Russia Military Conference in the framework of Military-Academic Exchanges took place from October 23-25 at the Russian General Staff Academy in Moscow. The speakers were NATO officers who presented the following topics: Results of the Chicago NATO Summit, Smart Defense, Way Ahead in Afghanistan, and Missile Defense.
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NRC Cooperative Airspace Initiative Exercise Takes Place
November, 13 2012
A simulated computer-based exercise to test the NATO-Russia Council’s Cooperative Airspace Initiative (CAI) Information Exchange System (IES) will take place on 13-14 November 2012 over three CAI geographical areas of operational interest, Bodø – Murmansk, Warsaw – Kaliningrad and Ankara – Rostov-on-Don.
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NRC Logistics Prepare Busy 2013
November, 12 2012
NRC Logistics Groups look set to have a busy year ahead of them, with a wide range of Logistics and Medical Cooperation activities due to take place. This includes Capable Logistician 2013, a large scale multinational military logistics exercise.
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NRC Telemedicine Seminar
November, 11 2012
Telemedicine is an evolving field of medicine in which the caregiver may be separated from the patient by distance or time. Through the use of modern communications technologies, a medical specialist is able to assess a patient, determine the diagnosis and provide timely recommendations to the on-site caregiver.
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NRC Nuclear Safety Exercises: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
November, 08 2012
The NRC has a track record of expert level dialogue and cooperation in the area of nuclear weapons safety. The NRC Nuclear Experts sub group was created to examine these issues. Most importantly, since 2004 NRC experts have participated in four nuclear weapons safety field demonstrations in Russia, France, the US and UK.
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NRC Cooperative Airspace Initiative 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
November, 02 2012
The terrorist attacks on the US on 11 September 2001 were a stark demonstration of the catastrophic consequences of terrorists gaining control of planes, which led to the recognition in 2002 of the need for NRC nations to cooperate against terrorist threats to civilian aircraft.
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NRC Cooperation on Afghanistan on the Agenda
October, 31 2012
The NRC subgroup on Afghanistan met yesterday in Brussels. The subgroup was created as a forum in 2010 to help build cooperation on Afghanistan in areas of mutual interest, including developing Afghan national security force capabilities and providing logistical support for ISAF.
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NRC Search and Rescue at Sea: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
October, 25 2012
Despite continual improvements in technology and safety measures, accidents still occur at sea, because of this Search and Rescue at Sea is an extremely important field of cooperation for NRC nations. The aim of cooperation through the NRC is to ensure that cooperative capabilities exist to facilitate Search and Rescue at Sea operations during serious incidents.
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NRC Civil Emergency Planning: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
October, 18 2012
The number of natural and man-made disasters across the NRC area is increasing. International cooperation is often vital to mitigating the consequences of disasters. Work done in the NRC Civil Emergency Planning and Protection working group helps nations to prepare to work together in a crisis quickly and efficiently, in what are often life or death situations.
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NRC Counter Narcotics Training Project representatives meet
October, 16 2012
Representatives of the NRC’s highly successful counter narcotics training project met in Brussels, to take stock of training in 2012, and look to its future work. The project focuses on providing training courses to counter narcotics officers from Afghanistan, Central Asia and Pakistan. It has been a key part of NRC cooperation since its inception in 2006, and more than 2200 counter narcotics officers from the region have received training.
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Successsful trial for ISAF transit arrangements
October, 16 2012
NATO and the Russian Federation held a post-exercise evaluation meeting to conclude the successful movement of cargo to and from Afghanistan, through Ulyanovsk transit point, in a virtual trial. The route is designed to support the movement of non-lethal cargo in support of ISAF.
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NRC Logistics Cooperation: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
October, 11 2012
In today’s security environment where multinational operations are the norm rather than the exception, improved coordination, interoperability and pooling of resources between nations are highly important. NRC nations have been working together for the last 10 years to improve military and civilian cooperation on logistics, in order to facilitate NRC operational cooperation.
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Afghan Helicopter Technicians Graduate in Russia
October, 09 2012
A second group of Afghan Air Force technicians successfully graduated from their NRC helicopter maintenance course in Russia on 28 September. The Afghan trainees completed a 90-day long course on the maintenance of Mi-17 helicopters, which included both theoretical and practical tuition at the Novosibirsk Aircraft Repair Plant, a world-class Russian helicopter maintenance training centre.
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Counter Piracy Cooperation: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary Feature
October, 04 2012
Pirate attacks are increasing and their reach has extended deep into the Indian Ocean. Multinational cooperation is the only way to keep an area greater in size than the European continent with tens of thousands of ships passing through each year, safe from pirates.
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NRC Explosive Ordnance Disposal Seminar in Slovakia
October, 03 2012
An NRC Seminar on “Explosive Ordnance Disposal in the Post-2014 Environment” took place on the 20 September in Trenčin, Slovakia in cooperation with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Centre of Excellence.
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Counter Terrorism Cooperation: 10 Years 10 Stories Anniversary feature
September, 27 2012
In the wake of the devastating terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001, there was common recognition by Russia and all NATO nations that terrorism posed a serious threat to people across the Euro-Atlantic region and beyond. A threat that would be better faced by working together, pooling expertise and resources.
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NATO-Russia Council: Ten Years of Cooperation
September, 19 2012
In 2012 the NATO-Russia Council marks its tenth anniversary as a forum for political dialogue and practical cooperation. To celebrate 10 years of joint action, the NRC Website will be bringing you 10 feature stories on key practical cooperation projects which are being conducted jointly by the nations of the NRC.
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New NRC Structure Diagram
September, 19 2012
You can now view and download the new updated NRC Structure DIagram.
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NRC Factsheet 2012: Practical Cooperation
August, 22 2012
The NRC website team has produced an updated NATO-Russia Council Fact Sheet with everything you need to know about NATO-Russia Council practical cooperation, download the PDF or read it here on our website.
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NRC Publishes Glossaries On Helicopters And Missile Defence
August, 20 2012
The NRC Expert Group on Terminology has continued its valuable linguistic work by producing two new NATO-Russia Council Glossaries: helicopter maintenance and missile defence. The two new glossaries are a supplementary to the NATO-Russia Council Consolidated Glossary of Cooperation.
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Counter-Narcotics Training Project looks to the future
August, 20 2012
NRC Counter Narcotics Training Project representatives marked its achievements and looked to future development in Tashkent, after also attending a drugs burning ceremony organised by the Uzbek Government on the UN's World Drugs Day.
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NRC launches social media
August, 03 2012
Follow all the NRC on social media networking sites Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
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Helicopter Trust Fund project producing results
July, 20 2012
Ten Afghan Air Force Helicopter Maintenance Technicians have now been certified in helicopter repair after completing an extensive 90 day training course in Novosibirsk Aircraft Repair Plant in Russia. A second round of training has already started, with a third to follow.
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Questions and Answers on ISAF transit and Russia
July, 18 2012
In Spring 2008, NATO asked the Russian Federation to allow the land transit of non-military equipment for ISAF contributors across Russian territory to Afghanistan in support of the NATO-led, UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.
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NATO-Russia practical cooperation discussions in Moscow
June, 28 2012 - June, 29 2012
Patrick Auroy visited Moscow on 28 - 29 June 2012 to discuss practical cooperation between NATO and Russia. At the invitation of Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin, Mr Auroy attended the Zhukovsky International Forum - "Engineering Technologies".
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Giulio Terzi: NRC a Joint Answer to Challenges
May, 28 2012
Ten years have passed since the signing of the Rome Declaration on NATO-Russian Relations at the air-base at Pratica di Mare, establishing the NATO-Russian Council. A strong idea arose of bringing of unity of intent and action to the response by the Atlantic Alliance and the Russian Federation to the new, complex challenges to international security.
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President Putin Meets Counter-Narcotics Project Trainees
May, 17 2012
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the international training centre for counter- narcotics officers where he met with students from the NRC Central Asian Counter-Narcotics Training Project.
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Counter-narcotics training reaches milestone
April, 19 2012
NATO-Russia Council (NRC) project to train counter-narcotics personnel in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia reached a significant milestone in April 2012: 2000 officers have now been trained under this project, one of the most successful NRC initiatives to date.
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NRC Exercise Tests Responses to Simulated Terrorist Attack
April, 12 2012
Over 70 civilian and military personnel from NRC nations took part in the exercise. A broad range of expertise was represented, including experts from ministries of defence, foreign affairs and transport, as well as military personnel from a number of NRC nations. Several nations also provided experts from national law enforcement bodies.
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AAF Helicopter Technicians Start NRC Training
April, 10 2012
10 Afghan helicopter-maintenance staff started their training at the OBORONPROM Aircraft Repair Plant in Novosibirsk. The 90-day course is taking place as part of the NRC Helicopter Maintenance Trust Fund project, which was launched by the NATO-Russia Council in April 2011 to enable the Afghan Air Force to operate and maintain its Mi-17 helicopter fleet more effectively.
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NATO Military Officers honoured by Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces
January, 18 2012
Army General Nikolay E. Makarov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, awarding the medal of the Russian Ministry of Defence "For the Strengthening of Combat Cooperation" to Lieutenant Colonel Peter Van den Broeck, Staff Officer of the Russia Section in the Special Partnership Branch of the IMS Cooperation & Regional Security Division
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Army General Nikolai Makarov, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, visits NATO’s Operational Command
January, 17 2012
Army General Nikolay Makarov, the Chief of the Russian General Staff, visited Allied Command Operations at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium, on 17 January. He met the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, received operational briefings and toured SHAPE facilities, including the bunker housing the command of NATO forces in Europe.
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Statement by the Chairman of the NATO-Russia Council Anders Fogh Rasmussen following the NATO-Russia Council at Foreign Ministers level
December, 08 2011
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Statement by Chairman of the NATO-Russia Council Anders Fogh Rasmussen, after the morning session of the NATO-Russia Council in Sochi, Russian Federation
July, 04 2011
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NRC Visiting Session Sochi: Remarks by Minister Lavrov
July, 04 2011
Remarks by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Opening of the Visiting Session of the NATO-Russia Council at the Level of Permanent Representatives, Sochi
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CAI Vigilant Skies- First Live NATO-Russia Counter terrorist exercises
June, 06 2011
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Russian submarine takes part in Bold Monarch Exercise 2011
May, 30 2011 - June, 10 2011
For the first time, a Russian navy submarine has been fully integrated in a NATO-led exercise. Supported by a three other Russian ships - a submarine-rescue vessel, a salvage vessel and a heavy-lifting vessel - the Alrosa submarine took part in Exercise "Bold Monarch 2011"
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NRC launches new Consolidated Glossary of Cooperation
May, 04 2011
The 29 Chiefs of Defence of the NATO Russia Council Military Representatives (NRC-MR) met in Brussels today and assessed the progress of the Work Plan for 2011 in the agreed areas of cooperation.
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NATO Allies and Russia put their trust in Afghan Air Force
April, 21 2011
Thanks to the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) Helicopter Maintenance Trust Fund, the Afghan Air Force will receive the tools to operate its helicopter fleet more efficiently.
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NATO-Russia Council Action Plan on Terrorism
April, 15 2011
Since its initial launch in December 2004, the NATO-Russia Council Action Plan on Terrorism has served as an effective tool in ensuring the overall coordination and strategic direction of NATO-Russia cooperation in the fight against terrorism. The updated NRC Action Plan on Terrorism draws on the NRC Joint Review of 21st Century Common Security Challenges endorsed by NRC Heads of State and Government in Lisbon
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NRC Joint Statement on the terrorist attack at the Domodedovo Airport in Moscow
January, 24 2011
The NATO-Russia Council firmly condemn the terrorist bombing in Domodedovo airport.
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New NRC Committee Structure
January, 10 2011
On 4 December 2009, the Nato-Russia Council (NRC) of Foreign Ministers decided to agreed several re-arrangements in the NRC Committee structure.
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Fact sheet of NRC practical cooperation
January, 10 2011
In 1997 NATO and Russia signed the NATO-Russia Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security, which provided the formal basis for NATO-Russia relations and led to the development of a bilateral programme of consultation and cooperation under the Permanent Joint Council (PJC).
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NRC Joint Statement at the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council held In Lisbon
November, 20 2010
We, the Heads of State and Government of the NATO-Russia Council, met today in Lisbonand affirmed that we have embarked on a new stage of cooperation towards a true strategic partnership.
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NATO Secretary General and Chairman of the NATO-Russia Council Anders Fogh Rasmussen holds talks with Russian leaders
December, 17 2009
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Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at Foreign Affairs Ministers level, Brussels.
December, 04 2009
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Two new glossaries, on nonlethal capabilities and NATO-Russia cooperation
October, 21 2009
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NATO-Russia Council Action Plan on Terrorism 2008 mid-year implementation report.
July, 28 2008
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in Defence Minister's session
June, 13 2008
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Concert of the Kuban Cossack Choir at NATO HQ
May, 14 2008
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Highlights of the NRC-MR Work Plan 2008
April, 18 2008
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Fact sheet of NRC Practical cooperation
April, 03 2008
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Informal meeting of the NATO Russia Council at the level of Foreign Ministers
April, 26 2007
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Ministers of Defence
February, 09 2007
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) at the level of Ministers of Defence
September, 29 2006
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Informal meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Defence Ministers
February, 10 2006
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Foreign Ministers
December, 08 2005
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Informal working luncheon of Defence Ministers from the NATO-Russia Council
September, 14 2005
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Ministers of Defence
June, 09 2005
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Informal meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Foreign ministers
April, 21 2005
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Informal meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Defence Ministers
February, 10 2005
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Informal NATO-Russia Council meeting at the level of Defence Ministers
October, 14 2004
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Foreign Ministers
June, 28 2004
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Informal meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Foreign Ministers
April, 02 2004
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Foreign Ministers
December, 04 2003
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Ministers of Defence
December, 01 2003
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Foreign Ministers
June, 04 2003
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Foreign Ministers
November, 22 2002
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Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Ministers of Defence
June, 06 2002
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Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of NATO member states and Russia
May, 28 2002
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NRC Project on Counter-Narcotics Training of Afghan and Central Asian Personnel - Expert meeting
January, 01 0001
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