Sunday, May 19, 2024
Moscow is putting together a list of unfriendly nations and the US is "obviously" going to be on it, the foreign ministry has revealed. The blacklist is in response to the recent unfriendly moves by the Americans and their allies, RT reported. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova explained on Sunday that work...
US President Joe Biden has recognized the events in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as "Armenian genocide," despite the fact that his predecessors avoided using the term, TASS reported. "Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian...
The Russian Charge d’Affaires Sergey Koshelev was summoned to the US Department of State on Friday where he strongly rejected groundless allegations against Russia on destabilizing actions, Russia’s embassy in the United States wrote on its Twitter page on Saturday, Tass informed. "Today, the Russian Charge d’Affaires used the meeting in...
The Russian military scrambled a MiG-31 fighter jet to escort a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft over the Pacific ocean as it approached the Russian border, the Interfax news agency said on Friday, citing the Russian Pacific Fleet. “The Russian fighter crew identified the aerial target as a US Air Force RC-135...
Washington intentionally keeps quiet about its plans for the deployment of new nuclear weapon systems, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary on Wednesday following the release of the U.S. Department of State’s report entitled 2021 Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament...
Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday Ukraine and NATO were continuing military preparations, and called on them to refrain from actions that could lead to escalation, Reuters reports citing the RIA news agency. On Tuesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy challenged his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to meet him in the...
The Czech Republic said on Sunday it had informed NATO and European Union allies about suspected Russian involvement in a 2014 ammunition depot explosion and the matter would be addressed at an EU foreign ministers' meeting on Monday, Reuters reports. The central European country expelled 18 Russian embassy staff on...
French President Emmanuel Macron says relations with Russia need a two-pillar approach, with both dialogue and sanctions, Sputnik News reports. "I think that sanctions are not sufficient in itself, in themselves, but sanctions are part of the package. I do prefer constructive dialogue, but to have a constructive and efficient...
The stability of the Russian economy is fully guaranteed, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov replied to reporters on Friday, when asked if the Russian economy would weather the new restrictive measures imposed by Washington. " macroeconomic stability is fully ensured, our regulator is acting moderately and successfully, the efficiency of our...
Russia’s MiG-31 fighter jet was scrambled to escort a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday. According to the ministry, Russian airspace control systems detected an aerial target flying over the...