Tuesday, March 19, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the situation in Afghanistan with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday, the U.S. State Department said, following media reports Russia offered money to militants to kill Americans in Afghanistan, Reuters reported. The Trump administration has downplayed the reports, saying U.S. agencies have...
Russia plans to outfit its military station in Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan, with 30 additional tanks by the end of the year, Reuters reported citing Interfax. Since the U.S. army departure from Afghanistan and the Taliban's rapid takeover, Moscow has undertaken military drills in Tajikistan and increased the weaponry at...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discussed the conflicts in Libya and Syria in a telephone call on Monday, Reuters reported. The Kremlin said that the two leaders, focused mainly on the crisis in Libya, where they back opposing sides, highlighting the need to make real...
CIA and Pentagon instructors are implicated in preparing protests in Belarus, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin said Tuesday as cited by the service’s press bureau, TASS reported. "’Fighters for renewed Belarus are trained in Poland, Georgia, Ukraine and the Baltic states with participation of instructors from the CIA and...
Russian artist and LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova has been hit with pornography charges a fourth time over artwork aimed at ending stigmas around the female anatomy, the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported Tuesday. Tsvetkova, 27, was first charged with distributing pornography online in June 2020 after sharing artwork of vulvas...
The United States is trying to leverage the Internet exclusively to their advantage, which is deplorable, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday at a meeting on establishing an equal rights regime of Internet management, TASS reported. "Not surprisingly, a number of countries, primarily the U.S., are seeking...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected on Wednesday any suggestion that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union had been influenced by Russian interference, Reuters reported. A day after a report by parliament’s intelligence and security committee said the government had failed to try to find out whether Russia had meddled...
Ukraine’s potential accession to NATO would lead to a large-scale rise in tensions in the country’s southeast and irreversible consequences for Ukraine’s statehood, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Friday, TASS reports. "We have taken note of a statement by Ukrainian President Zelensky, who visited...
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has slammed the US Department of State’s demand for Russians living in the Kuril Islands to name Japan as their place of birth, stressing that Washington encourages revanchism and revisionist mood, TASS informed. "Do we need another evidence that the United States is a revisionist power? Under...
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...