A one-time officer in the elite U.S. Green Beret special forces unit has pleaded guilty to charges he conspired to provide American defense secrets to Russian spies, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday, as reported by Reuters.
Federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, said that former Green Beret captain Peter Rafael Dzibinski...
Russian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and took her in for questioning early on Friday after raiding her home, Reuters reports.
There was no immediate comment from the police.
Supporters of Navalny said the police action appeared to be...
A Russian court on Tuesday lengthened the prison sentence for Yuri Dmitriev, a historian of Stalin-era crimes who was charged with sexually abusing his adopted daughter, to 13 years from three and a half years, Interfax cited his lawyer as saying.
In July, Dmitriev was found guilty, but spared a...
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...
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...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has wared Western nations against trying to break down the architecture of the Dayton Accords as it is fraught with serious consequences, TASS reported.
"I would like to warn seriously some of our partners against trying to break down the Dayton architecture. We observe such...
William J. Burns, the candidate for the position of CIA director, has a respectable track record and a lot of experience, the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin said Friday.
U.S. President Joe Biden suggested Burns for the top job in the CIA in early February, but his...
Belarus and Ukraine have agreed to beef up their border controls and expand border cooperation after Belarus detained more than 30 alleged Russian mercenaries near Minsk ahead of Belarus’ presidential election, the Belarusian foreign ministry said.
The move aims to prevent any attempts to destabilize the two countries, the Belarusian...
Russia has never refused to cooperate with American partners and will respond constructively to positive signals on their part, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday, according to TASS.
"We see them the way they should be. We look upon these relations as those of equal, mutually respectful...
Russia will convene an informal UN Security Council meeting on Crimea on March 17, Russia’s first deputy envoy to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said in his Telegram channel, TASS writes.
The diplomat said that Western nations announced an Arria formula meeting devoted to Crimea, to be held at the UN...
