Ursula von der Leyen, the EU's foreign policy head, told Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday that "it is time to alter direction," promising a three-billion-euro aid package if he steps down.
The EU's message, according to the head of the European Commission, was twofold: one of sympathy for the...
Ahead of a summit between the nations' presidents on Friday, Russia called the United States' decision not to enter the Open Skies weapons control deal, which enables unarmed surveillance flights over member states, a "political mistake."
The original decision to leave the accord was made by President Donald Trump's administration...
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's statement that Vladimir Putin allegedly apologized to him for talking about Belarus with US President Joe Biden, Kommersant reports.
According to Peskov, it was just a figure of speech and the Russian president did not apologize, but informed his...
Spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Moscow is doing all possible to guarantee that the rights of Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, who was detained in Minsk with opposition activist Roman Protasevich, be respected, as reported by TASS.
The envoy also warned against leaping to...
According to the TASS news agency, the Russian Prosecutor-General's office banned at least three German non-governmental organizations on Wednesday after it labelled them "undesirable."
The Forum Russischsprachiger Europäer, the Zentrum für die Liberale Moderne, and the Deutsch-Russischer Austausch were named in the report, as cited by Reuters.
A Bulgarian embassy staffer has been deemed persona non grata by Russia, according to a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry invited Bulgarian Ambassador Atanas Krystin to provide him with a memo designating a Bulgarian embassy official persona non grata on May 26,...
On Tuesday, the Kremlin said it will make an announcement shortly about a potential meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden, Reuters reports.
On a conference call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow and Washington wanted to work together on cybersecurity to deter...
At a summit on Monday, EU leaders voted to ban Belarusian airlines from traveling to EU airports and flying over the EU, as well as urging European airlines to halt flights in the country's airspace.
According to the declaration, the summit "calls on all EU-based carriers to avoid overflight of...
On Monday, Russia's foreign ministry expressed concern about the United States' enforcement of the New START nuclear weapons control treaty, claiming that the number of U.S. launchers and bombers had met the agreed-upon cap, Reuters reports.
The New START pact between Russia and the United States was renewed in February....
The European Union is strengthening its line to contain Russia by continuing to interfere in the country's internal affairs and expanding sanctions against its citizens and legal entities, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper.
According to the RIA Novosti news agency, Lavrov...
