Friday, June 2, 2023
The European Union has prolonged Russia's economic sectoral sanctions for another six months, the EU Council published a statement on Monday, TASS reports. According to the statement, the EU Council today voted to prolong sanctions targeting particular sectors of the Russian economy for another six months, until January 31, 2022....
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation formalizing Russia's withdrawal from the Open Skies weapons control treaty, which authorizes unarmed monitoring aircraft over member countries, Reuters reports. Russia had anticipated that when Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden met in Geneva later this month, they will be able to...
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...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during today's telephone conversation agreed to hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Arctic Council, which will be held in Iceland on May 19, as reported by Kommersant. During the conversation, Sergei Lavrov and Anthony Blinken...
On December 18, 2021, Russia will entirely pull out of the Treaty on Open Skies, according to a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday. According to the Foreign Ministry, Moscow has sent notices to Hungary and Canada, the document's depository states, as well as the other member...
Rosoboronexport, Russia's national arms exporter, is in negotiations with five nations interested in purchasing the Su-57 fifth-generation multirole fighter, Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheyev said on Tuesday at the MAKS-2021 air show. "Based on operational qualities, this is one of the greatest fighters in the world." It definitely offers a number...
The Kremlin said on Thursday it would respond in kind to any new “illegal” new U.S. sanctions on Russia and warned any new measures would reduce the chances of a summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin taking place. People familiar with the matter told Reuters on...
Member of the European Court of Auditors, Johan Parts pointed to the unprecedented level of corruption in Ukraine, comparing this phenomenon to an epidemic, Interfax reported. According to him, there is no doubt that corruption is widespread in Ukraine on a huge scale. “You can tell your president that there are...
President Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed as "absurd" Prague's accusations against Moscow after Czech authorities accused the Russian secret services of being behind a deadly arms depot blast in 2014, The Moscow Times reports. In a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Putin "commented on the current state of...
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...