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...
The United States and NATO bear responsibility for aggravation of the situation in Donbass because of their refusal to exert influence on Kiev, Russia’s Permanent Envoy to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich told the OSCE member states on Thursday, TASS informs.
"According to the current data, over the past days no...
The Kremlin said on Thursday it would respond in kind to any new “illegal” new U.S. sanctions on Russia and warned any new measures would reduce the chances of a summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin taking place.
People familiar with the matter told Reuters on...
The United States plans to impose sanctions on Russia over suspicion of its alleged involvement in the hack of the SolarWinds software and meddling with the U.S. election, TASS reports, citing Bloomberg.
According to Bloomberg, the sanctions, to be imposed already on Thursday, will target about a dozen of Russian...
The Kremlin on Thursday said demand for vaccinations in Russia against COVID-19 remained disappointing, but was gradually increasing, Reuters reports.
Russia has three coronavirus vaccines, the most well-known of which is Sputnik V. Moscow has also given approval to two others, EpiVacCorona and CoviVac.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Thursday said...
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...
Russia on Tuesday warned the United States to ensure its warships stayed well away from Crimea “for their own good”, calling their deployment in the Black Sea a provocation designed to test Russian nerves, Reuters reports.
Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and two U.S. warships are due to...
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...
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that its ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov will most likely not return to Washington in the near future, but the decision will ultimately depend on Washington showing at least some desire to normalize relations with Moscow.
The United States has no plans to...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) announces that Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in the country. India has become the 60th country to approve Sputnik V, the producer said in a statement.
Sputnik...
