Russian President Vladimir Putin told his counterparts from Turkey and Iran on Wednesday that there was a need for peaceful dialogue between the opposing forces in Syria’s civil war, Reuters reported.
Putin also told Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani in a televised video conference that hot spots of...
The turnout at the nationwide vote on amending the Russian Constitution hit 57.43% by 12:00 Moscow Time, according to the Central Election Commission’s information center, TASS reported.
The nationwide vote on amendments to the Russian Constitution kicked off on June 25. Though the Russian president's decree sets July 1 as...
U.S. officials have intercepted data showing financial transfers between a Russian military spy unit and Taliban-linked accounts, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing three unnamed officials familiar with the intelligence.
The alleged intercepts bolstered U.S. intelligence conclusions, also reported by the NYT, that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants...
Russian investigators said on Tuesday they were looking into a journalist’s allegations he had been assaulted by two policemen at a polling station in St Petersburg during a vote to change the constitution and that they had broken his arm, Reuters reported.
Russians have been voting to amend the constitution,...
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has called for the election of Vladimir Putin as Russia’s president for life ahead of a nationwide vote that could allow Putin to stay in power for another 12 years, The Moscow Times reported.
Millions of Russians are voting on more than 200 constitutional amendments, one...
Russia’s Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) has hired the Alfa Group to go after the vast wealth of fugitive ex-oligarch and Western media favorite Sergey Pugachev.
Moscow is seeking Pugachev’s funds after a financial institution he created – the International Industrial Bank (Mezhprombank) – went bust and lost 72.5 billion rubles...
The Kremlin has rejected a suggestion from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov that Vladimir Putin should be installed as president for life. “The constitution does not provide for such a position,” said Dmitry Peskov, the official presidential spokesman, Russia Today reported.
Kadyrov proposed Putin’s lifelong presidency during a meeting of the...
Deputies of the lower house of the Parliament of Tajikistan supported the amendments proposed by the government to reduce the revenues of the state budget of the country for the current year; taking into account the revision, the budget deficit this year will be $310 million, RIA Novosti reports.
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As part of legislative initiatives, the U.S. Senator, Republican John Thune proposed to buy the S-400 system from Turkey, Defense News reported. Last summer, Russia began to supply components of anti-aircraft missile systems, according to a previously concluded contract, Kommersant reported.
As the publication clarifies, a corresponding amendment was proposed...
Both Democrats and President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in Congress demanded more information from the White House on Monday after reports that Russian military intelligence offered militants bounties for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Reuters reported.
“Congress and the country need answers now. I therefore request an interagency brief for...
