Two Russian MiG-31 fighter jets of the Northern Fleet were scrambled to intercept a British reconnaissance aircraft approaching the Russian border over the Barents Sea, Russia’s National Defense Management Center reported on Monday, according to TASS.
According to the Center, Russian airspace control systems detected an aerial target over the...
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday called the recent signing of a peace deal between the Sudanese government and several rebel groups an "important step" toward national reconciliation in the African country, Sputnik reported.
"We welcome the signing of the peace agreement, which is an important step towards achieving national...
The UN Security Council discussed the need to ensure verification of a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya told reporters on Monday after a closed-door meeting on the disputed region, TASS reported.
"There is a need to ensure verification, I think that’s the most...
The Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who has won the US presidential election as the American media outlets claim, will hardly make positive contributions to Washington’s policy regarding Russia, Chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower house) Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky told reporters on Sunday, adding though that Moscow...
A Russian peacekeeper has been wounded and an Azerbaijani soldier killed in a mine explosion in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday, The Moscow Times reported.
Four emergency workers from the unrecognized ethnic Armenian republic of Nagorno-Karabakh were also wounded in the region’s Tartar district,...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said at a meeting with a Russian delegation of parliamentary election observers that he hoped to visit Moscow and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in April-June 2021, Sputnik reported.
The Venezuelan leader expressed confidence that members of the new National Assembly would also visit the...
A Russian officer died during demining works near Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian defense ministry said on Friday, TASS informed.
"During demining works at a road section near the settlement of Shusha on December 17, an explosive device went off. As a result of the blast, an officer of the...
The question on presence of Russian representatives at the inauguration ceremony of U.S. President-Elect Joseph Biden should be addressed to the American side, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with the RTVI channel on Wednesday, TASS reports.
"The inauguration of a country’s president - this is...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's defiant pledge to return to Moscow from Germany after surviving a poisoning attack puts the Kremlin in a major bind, The Moscow Times reports.
President Vladimir Putin, observers say, is caught between a rock and a hard place: allow his most outspoken critic to freely...
