Moscow and Washington are slowly finding their way from sharp confrontation to managing their bilateral relations in a more responsible way, Thomas Graham, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush, told TASS.
The US expert commented on a phone conversation on Tuesday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and...
The Russian Embassy in the United States has reproached the U.S. State Department for distorting the memory of the first Earth cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, TASS reports.
"Regrettably, the U.S. State Department has again demonstrated memory loss regarding the history of space exploration. We wish to remind that the UN General...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has not yet been able to speak to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine despite lodging a request to do so, Zelenskiy’s spokeswoman said on Monday, as reported by Reuters.
Kyiv and Moscow have traded blame over the worsening...
Russian speakers in Donbass have been rejected by their own state and Russia considers it a priority to protect their interests, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, TASS reported.
"Russia believes that it is important to take care of the interests of Russian speakers around the world in general," he...
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...
Moscow expects Washington to clarify its position on the Treaty on Open Skies shortly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister - Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi Thursday.
"We do not have any understanding whether the Americans are going to return to the...
Moscow is preparing to respond to a new wave of potential economic and financial sanctions from the US with measures designed to shore up its currency, keep payments flowing, and ensure the country can maintain business as usual, RT writes.
“There is clearly a deliberate calculation to create a toxic...
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on NATO on Tuesday to lay out a path for Ukraine to join the Western military alliance, after days in which Russia has massed troops near the conflict-hit Donbass region.
Zelenskiy’s comments drew an immediate rebuke from Moscow, which said Kyiv’s approach to NATO could further...
Developed countries have purchased about 60% of vaccines manufactured worldwide and created a shortage of these preparations for developing countries, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in an interview published on China’s Foreign Ministry’s website on Monday, TASS informs.
According to the Chinese top diplomat, a "vaccine...
A recent breakdown of the ceasefire in Ukraine, and escalation in fighting along the line of control, has been followed by what has become a somewhat traditional war of words between Moscow and Kiev, with each side blaming the other, says Michael Kofman in his opinion piece for The...
