Thursday, April 25, 2024
Russia will work to elicit a reaction from international organizations regarding the measures against Sputnik and Baltnews media outlets in Latvia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday, Sputnik reports. "We must get the international mechanisms involved. We presented the issue in the UN, in the OSCE, in the Council...
Moscow considers Kiev’s efforts to reclaim Crimea as illegitimate, they represent a threat of aggression against two Russian regions, TASS reports citing spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. "All efforts by Kiev to reclaim Crimea are illegitimate and cannot be interpreted in any other way but a threat...
Moldova heads to the polls on Sunday for the second round of a tightly-contested presidential election pitting a pro-European challenger against the country's Moscow-backed incumbent, The Moscow Times reported. The tiny ex-Soviet nation votes under the watchful eye of Russia, which wants polarized Moldova to remain in its sphere of...
A Kremlin-initiated investigation has found the individuals who ordered the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in 2015, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday during a meeting of the presidential human rights council, as reported by The Moscow Times. Nemtsov, one of Putin's most vocal critics, was shot and killed on a...
Maia Sandu has won Moldova’s presidential election with 57.75% of the vote, while Igor Dodon gained 42.25% with 100% of ballots counted, according to the country’s Central Election Commission, Tass informed. According to data published on the commission’s website, voter turnout was 52.78%. Moldova held the second round of its presidential...
White House officials planned to make a statement alleging that Russia had been involved in the hacker attack against computer systems of the US government but were instructed at the last minute not to release it, Associated Press news agency reports, citing a source. "Officials at the White House had...
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...
Russia never meddles in internal affairs of the neighboring countries and it always supports their authorities in efforts to stabilize the situation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he met with President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov on Monday, TASS reported. "You know, we never meddle in internal affairs of our...
The U.S. administration has completed an intelligence review of Russia’s alleged election interference and the SolarWinds hack and may soon announce retaliatory actions, Bloomberg reported, citing "three people familiar with the matter." "Possible moves could involve sanctions and the expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in the U.S. under diplomatic cover,...
Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is in Lithuania, the country’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said on Tuesday, Tass informed. "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is safe. She is in Lithuania," he wrote on Twitter. In an interview with the national radio LRT, Linkevicius also said that Tikhanovskaya arrived in Lithuania after spending seven hours in...