Moscow expelled 20 Czech diplomats on Sunday in a confrontation over Czech allegations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an earlier explosion at a Czech ammunition depot that killed two people, Reuters reports.
Prague had on Saturday ordered out 18...
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 United States is not interested in escalation, but reserves the right to respond to Russia’s countermeasures, a U.S. Department of State spokesperson told TASS on Friday.
"Our recent actions were proportionate and appropriate to Russia's harmful activities. Today's announcement by the Russian government was escalatory and regrettable," the spokesperson...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and to restart the four way talks under the Normandy Format during a trip to Paris to meet with his French counterpart President Emmanuel Macron on April 16, bne IntelliNews reports.
Macron met Putin in person for...
Washington's accusation regarding alleged Russian bounties for assassination of U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan are fiction and phobias of U.S. intelligence community, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Friday, as reported by TASS.
"We noted the once again voice White House accusations towards Russia about the alleged bounties to Taliban...
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a consul of the Ukrainian General Consulate in St. Petersburg for obtaining classified information from the databases of law-enforcement agencies and the FSB, the FSB’s press office told TASS on Saturday.
"On April 16, the Federal Security Service apprehended Ukrainian diplomat - consul...
Russia on Friday asked 10 U.S. diplomats to leave the country in retaliation for Washington’s expulsion of the same number of Russian diplomats over alleged malign activity and suggested the U.S. ambassador return home for consultations, Reuters reports.
The measures, part of a broader retaliatory package, were approved by President...
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 has shut off access to the Black Sea and is harassing Ukrainian warships amid Moscow's wider military buildup in the area, Ukraine said Thursday, The Moscow Times reports.
Ukraine’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Russia will close from next week until October parts of the Black Sea...
