Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Belarus investigators have officially charged Maria Kolesnikova, a protest leader, with incitement to undermine national security, the Investigative Committee said in a statement on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Kolesnikova was charged with calling for “actions aimed at undermining Belarusian national security” using the media and the Internet, the committee said. Kolesnikova, 38,...
Authorities in Belarus on Tuesday suspended independent news provider Tut.by for three months, a move decried by the opposition to beleaguered President Alexander Lukashenko, The Moscow Times reported. Tut.by has been covering widespread protests against Lukashenko since his recent disputed election win over rival Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who denounced the halting...
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar told Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in a phone call Monday that Armenian forces must immediately be removed from Azeri lands they occupy and halt attacks on civilians, Turkey’s ministry said, Reuters reported. Azerbaijan would not wait another 30 years for a solution to the conflict...
Russia said Saturday it would provide "necessary" assistance to Yerevan in its conflict with Azerbaijan if fighting reached Armenian territory after its ally requested help, The Moscow Times reported. Earlier Saturday Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan formally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to begin "urgent" consultations on security assistance in its...
Another 18 military transport Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Force with peacekeepers aboard have landed at Yerevan’s airfields, Russia’s Defense Ministry told journalists on Monday, TASS informed. "Another 18 Il-76 planes and two An-124 Ruslan aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Russian Aerospace Force with equipment and...
Russian authorities are probing opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s comments during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic for inciting extremism, news agencies quoted law enforcement sources as saying Tuesday. According to The Moscow Times, investigators are reportedly examining whether Navalny’s April 27 interview with the liberal Ekho Moskvy radio station...
Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the sanctions which the United States has imposed against Turkey over the missile system buy from Russia were illegitimate and showed arrogance toward international law, Reuters reported citing Interfax news agency. The United States imposed sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of...
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday it had prevented a terror attack that a 17-year-old male wanted to stage in the city of Tambov, Sputnik reports. According to the Federal Security Service, the teenager planned to use an improvised explosive device. "The FSB has prevented a terror attack...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that his country plans to develop relations with Russia and China, TASS reported citing North Korea’s KCNA news agency. Kim Jong-un was speaking at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, which opened on January 5. In particular, Kim Jong-un noted that Pyongyang...
Russia plans to view the attempts of the U.S. embassy in Moscow to "cover" the unauthorized rallies in Russia as interference in internal affairs, the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote on its Telegram channel on Friday, TASS reports. "All that coincides with Washington’s provocative doctrinal guidelines to encourage ‘protests in the...