Russia calls on the United Nations to monitor damage done to various countries by the United States’ and the European Union’s unilateral sanction imposed in bypassing the United Nations Security Council, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said on Wednesday at a UN Security Council informal...
President Vladimir Putin's support among young voters has roughly halved in the past year, according to independent survey results released Thursday, The Moscow Times reports.
If 36% of voters aged 18-24 said they would cast their ballots for Putin in 2019, only 20% expressed the same intention in November 2020,...
Moscow has not received a response from the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to a request for assistance in the situation with blogger Alexey Navalny, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement in connection with the reaction of the OPCW leadership...
A law granting immunity to former Russian presidents comes into force on January 2. The law was approved by the Russian State Duma on December 9, by the Federation Council on December 16, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 22, 2020 and published on the same day....
Moscow has decided to expel two employees of the Dutch embassy in Moscow as a response to similar actions taken by Amsterdam, TASS reported.
"On January 18, acting charge d’affaires of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Joost Reintjes was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. He was communicated a resolute...
The sentence on Alexey Navalny’s case is unlikely to significantly affect the political situation in Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, TASS reported.
"The political situation in the country is rather multifaceted. The country prepares for parliamentary elections in September, a lot of different processes take place, new political...
Russia and the United States are in talks on a possible prisoner swap that could secure the release of Paul Whelan, a former U.S. marine jailed for spying, within two to three months, his lawyer told Reuters on Monday, Reuters reports.
Russia convicted Whelan, who holds U.S., British, Canadian and...
Azerbaijan had deployed an Israeli-made defense system to shoot down a Russian-made missile that Armenia launched in the closing days of last fall's war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, The Moscow Times reports.
An unnamed official said Yerevan had launched a Russian Iskander missile “directly into the capital” of...
Hierarchs from the Russian Orthodox Church will visit Washington, DC later this year to take part in celebrations dedicated to the 50-year anniversary of granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), cleric of the Moscow Patriarchal Parishes in the United States Abbot Nikodim (Balyasnikov) told Sputnik.
"In...
Russia and China openly mock President Joe Biden, former US President Donald Trump said. Speaking at the North Carolina Republican convention, he said that the Democratic Party is "destroying" the United States.
"And now Biden is openly mocked by Chinese negotiators and Russian President Vladimir Putin. They laugh at him...
