Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in an interview with RT, spoke about Germany's double standards, citing as an example the situation with ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Nadezhda Savchenko.
According to Zakharova, the fate of the Ukrainian woman worried about the German authorities only when she was...
Following meetings between the two nations' presidents amid outrage in the West over the grounding of a passenger flight in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident blogger, Russia will proceed with a second $500 million loan to Belarus next month, Reuters reports.
On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and...
United States and Russia will start addressing the matter of resuming the work of embassies and the process of issuing visas, TASS informed.
According to Yevgeny Ivanov, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, the format of these consultations is currently being determined.
Ivanov said that Ambassador Anatoly Antonov already arrived in Washington DC,...
Russia-China ties are at an all-time high, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met with his Chinese colleague Wang Yi on the sidelines of the high-level international conference Central and South Asia: Regional Connectivity.
On Thursday, Tashkent hosted a conference titled "Challenges and Opportunities."
"I completely agree that our...
When comparing the Lithuanian president's remarks on protesters in Moscow and Lithuania, the Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, stated that Western governments generally set aside liberal language when dealing with protests on their own land.
According to the diplomat's Telegram channel, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda tweeted on January...
The volume of Chinese investments in Russia increased in January-July by 33% in annual terms to $200 million, said Wang Kaisuan, director of the Eurasian Department of the Ministry of Trade of China, at the Russian-Chinese Forum on Investment Cooperation.
The forum is being held as part of the 21st...
China is persistent in stockpiling nuclear weapons while making no guarantees about how it will use them. According to US high official for nuclear nonproliferation Jeffrey Eberhardt, the increasing supply is becoming more difficult to hide from the rest of the world, reports Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Eberhardt has urged Beijing and Washington to collaborate...
It is unwise to use sanctions in a bid to punish Russia and China, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Chinese mass media, TASS reports.
"You hear European businesses voicing resentment that it is suffering losses whereas their niche on the Russian market is being...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov drew attention of his Estonian counterpart, Eva-Maria Liimets, to the problem of discrimination of the republic’s Russian-speaking population, the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday after their telephone conversation, Tass informed.
"Liimets’ attention was drawn to the necessity of taking concrete steps to resolve problems...
Russia’s defense ministry said on Friday it had begun returning troops and military units from annexed Crimea to their permanent bases following a huge build-up near Ukraine’s border that had raised concerns in Kyiv and the West about the risk of war.
Russia announced on Thursday it had completed a...
