Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday slammed a statement from Christa Wirthumer-Hoche, the chairwoman of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) management board, who compared the prospect of Austria's early approval of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to "Russian roulette," calling it "at least inappropriate."
Wirthumer-Hoche told the ORF broadcaster on...
The international community should intensify efforts in the war on terrorism, Russian Minister of Interior General (Police) Vladimir Kolokoltsev said in a videoconference address at the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Kyoto, TASS writes.
"There is a need to build up efforts of shutting off...
A new facial recognition payment system on the Moscow metro, due to be launched this year, raises concerns about privacy and human rights, a Russian digital rights group said, as reported by Reuters.
Moscow has one of the world’s largest video-surveillance systems. It has used the technology to enforce COVID-19...
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...
Azerbaijan had deployed an Israeli-made defense system to shoot down a Russian-made missile that Armenia launched in the closing days of last fall's war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, The Moscow Times reports.
An unnamed official said Yerevan had launched a Russian Iskander missile “directly into the capital” of...
Germany has convicted two of its citizens on charges of violating the European Union’s arms embargo with Russia, the DPA news agency said Friday, as reported by The Moscow Times.
German investigators said the two defendants sold equipment for missile production to a Russian entrepreneur seven times between 2016-2018, bypassing...
Moscow will soon publish a blacklist in response to U.S. sanctions, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Channel One’s Vremya Pokazhet (or Time Will Tell) show on Friday, TASS reports.
"Given how they are acting, including the fact that they published all lists at once, I think that...
Slovakia has found itself in a diplomatic row after its prime minister made an offhand joke about paying for Russian coronavirus vaccine shipments with Ukrainian territory, The Moscow Times reports.
Kiev demanded an apology after Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič said in a radio interview Wednesday that he promised Russia...
The European Union’s internal processes have put progress in easing EU visa requirements for Russian youth out of reach for the time being, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with the Govorit Moskva radio station on Thursday, TASS reports.
" have closed their borders, and they...
The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed as baseless and illogical U.S. calls for Russia to destroy its chemicals weapons, saying that Moscow had destroyed them long ago in line with the chemical weapons convention, Reuters reports.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. was the one that should fulfill its obligations...
