Friday, April 19, 2024
Russia has offered the United States an opportunity to restore specialized channels of dialogue – including those at the highest level – on preventing cyberthreats, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik. A spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry said that, from the Russia's point of view, "one of the first...
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs said that Russia would respond to any new western sanctions, Sputnik News reports. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commenting on EU threats to impose new sanctions against Russia said that Brussels is obsessed with impunity and that this is a road to nowhere. "The fact that...
In the midst of deadly clashes between Hamas and Israel, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a voluntary withdrawal of Russian and ex-Soviet republic civilians from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, The Moscow Times reports. Putin's order, which was released on the government's legal site 10 days ago, came after Hamas...
Russia is willing to talk with the North Atlantic Alliance on de-escalation and incident prevention, but this discourse is pointless without military expertise, Spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated on her Telegram channel on Monday. Zakharova said that Russia is not avoiding engagement with NATO and is...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video conference to officially announce the extension of the Russian-Chinese agreement on good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation, the Chinese media reported. He stressed that the document recorded the absence of mutual territorial claims and the determination of the two countries...
On Tuesday, US Vice President Joe Biden accused his Russian counterpart of attempting to influence the 2022 congressional elections by disseminating "misinformation." "Look at what Russia is already doing regarding the 2022 elections and disinformation," Biden remarked during a visit to the director of national intelligence's headquarters outside Washington, alluding...
There are no prerequisites for Russia's military involvement in Afghanistan, and the situation in the country must be resolved via peaceful discussion, according to Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, according to TASS. According to Patrushev there are no prerequisites for Russian military involvement in Afghanistan and Russia  will...
The US plans to introduce a ban on all operations with the state debt of the Russian Federation from 2022. The US House of Representatives approved a bill banning the possession of already issued Russian government bonds of all government agencies (Central Bank, OFZ Ministry of Finance, etc.), which...
Russia won’t let the U.S. or any other country speak with it "from the position of force," Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Argumenty i Fakty newspaper published on Tuesday, as reported by TASS. "The Americans keep repeating like a mantra: we will speak with everyone from...
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...