Russia and Iran will look for new methods of countering the negative effect of sanctions on bilateral economic relations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Iran’s state television and radio broadcaster on Saturday, TASS reported.
Moscow and Tehran are taking measures not to allow bilateral trade...
A former Russian newspaper journalist accused of treason says state investigators have still not told him exactly what his alleged crime was, over six months after his arrest, Reuters reports.
Ivan Safronov, 30, covered military affairs as a reporter before starting work at Russia’s space agency last May. He was...
The European Union on Wednesday rejected the result of Belarus's disputed presidential election as strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko ordered his security forces to prevent any further unrest, The Moscow Times reported.
Following an emergency video conference on the elections, European Council chief Charles Michel said the EU would soon levy...
Vladimir Putin wrote an article for the German weekly Die Zeit.
Titled "Be open despite the past", the article is intended to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The text is available on the Kremlin website.
"On June 22, 1941 <...> the Nazis, having...
Protesters gathered outside the French Embassy in Moscow on Thursday and Friday to picket against French President Emmanuel Macron, The Moscow Times reported.
In comments that angered many Muslims this week, Macron defended the right to publish controversial cartoons as part of France's secular tradition following the beheading of a...
Russia is aware that threats of deterioration in the relations with the United States still remain, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova told a briefing Friday, commenting on the post published by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Twitter, TASS reported.
"There are no prospects in engaging...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the situation in Belarus in a phone call, and Moscow reiterated its position on the inadmissibility of attempts to interfere in the country's internal affairs, the Kremlin said in a statement, as reported by Sputnik News.
The sides also agreed...
The issues in the relations between the European Union and the United States, which exacerbated under Donald Trump’s presidency, will not be as acute under Joe Biden, but they will still remain there, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov told an online briefing Wednesday, TASS reports.
"Some landmark...
Earlier on Thursday, three people were killed and several more injured in a stabbing attack in Nice, Sputnik reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to French President Emmanuel Macron expressing his condolences over the deadly attack on citizens in Nice, the Kremlin said.
Putin called the attack in Nice...
The air forces of the US-led NATO military bloc have not only boosted their surveillance activities along Russia’s borders, but are now also increasingly training for potential strikes on the country’s soil, Russia Today reported.
That's according to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. Speaking on national TV on Sunday, he...
