Russian law enforcement detained a number of Jehovah’s Witnesses and conducted searches at 16 different addresses in Moscow on Wednesday as part of a new criminal investigation against the group, state investigators said, Reuters reported.
The Investigative Committee, which handles probes into major crimes, said the people had been detained...
Moscow expects that the United States’ Joe Biden-led administration will make up its mind regarding its policy on the Russian track within a month’s time, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the Ekho Moskvy radio station in an interview on Wednesday, TASS reports.
"I believe that the priorities are...
According to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the expulsion of an Albanian diplomat is in response to Albania ousting a Russian diplomat for allegedly violating coronavirus measures on 21 January 2021.
Russia has expelled an Albanian diplomat in a ‘tit-for-tat’ move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday, Sputnik...
Russia is interested in reviving relations with the EU considering interests of both sides and without applying double standards, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, TASS informed.
Peskov was commenting on the statement of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell that the results of his...
Russia has expelled a number of foreign diplomats due to the actions by foreign diplomatic missions during the unlawful rallies, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, adding that Russia will not put up with this behavior, TASS informed.
"The expulsion of diplomats that took place the day before...
The Russian convoy of the Humanitarian Response Center has ensured the transit of a humanitarian cargo weighing 150 tonnes to Kalbajar District, which came under Azerbaijan’s control after the escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh in the autumn of 2020, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Monday, TASS reported.
According to the...
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov both spoke of poor relations between Brussels and Moscow at their joint press briefing on Friday, with Lavrov saying talks got "bogged down" on the issue of jailed blogger Alexei Navalny.
A former British Conservative leader has accused...
The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Armenia, Sergey Lavrov and Ara Ayvazyan, focused in a phone call on Friday on implementation of the agreements reached by the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh, TASS reports.
"The foreign ministers discussed the implementation of the agreements reached by the leaders...
Russia has revived a draft proposal allowing law enforcement to access citizens’ mobile location data without a court order, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that comes amid nationwide protests in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Thousands of protesters have been held during recent weekend rallies...
