Tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators in Belarus have gathered in recent days to protest President Alexander Lukashenko’s disputed victory and the violent police crackdown that followed, The Moscow Times reported.
Belarusians formed human chains in cities including Minsk, many wearing white and holding flowers, to protest against police brutality...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said he warned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that there would be “an enormous price to pay” if Moscow is offering bounties to kill U.S. soldiers or other Western troops in Afghanistan, Reuters reported.
The New York Times in June reported that...
Thousands of protesters formed human chains and marched in Belarus on Thursday in a growing wave of peaceful demonstrations over President Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election and an ensuing brutal police crackdown, The Moscow Times reported.
Men and women, many wearing white and holding flowers, took to the streets of the...
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has described Russian President Vladimir Putin as his elder brother, TASS reported.
"I regard Putin as my elder brother, and I sincerely believe that he is my brother," Lukashenko told Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon in a TV interview. "Not in the sense one in command as...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has handed down instructions to invite the Russian and Ukrainian prosecutor generals to sort out the case of Russian nationals detained in Belarus, the BelTA news agency reported.
The prosecutor generals of the three countries need to "sit down together" and "make a decision on these...
One of the great mysteries in US/UK analysis of Russia is the apparently almost universally accepted belief that the implosion of Putin's system would somehow gift Moscow 'back' to the West, resetting the clock to the 1990s, Russia Today reported.
The general consensus seems to be that Russians are secretly...
London significantly overestimates its importance in the Russian politics by constantly accusing Moscow of meddling into the United Kingdom’s internal affairs, Russia’s UK Ambassador Andrei Kelin said in an interview with Daily Mail.
"I feel that Britain exaggerates, very much, its place in Russian thinking. The scope and place of...
Washington’s deployment of land-based short-and intermediate-range missiles in various regions around the world will provoke an immediate reaction from Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday, TASS reported.
"It is clear that deployment of American land-based short-and intermediate-range missiles globally seriously undermines regional and global security and will provoke a...
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on the actions of law enforcement officers at unauthorized protests in Khabarovsk, Kommersant reported. During the last mass rally, held in the city on July 25, three people were detained. In other Russian cities, the residents of which came out with pickets in...
The Russian defense ministry said it had sent a Su-27 fighter plane on Monday to intercept a U.S. surveillance plane over the Black Sea that it said was approaching the Russian border.
The U.S. plane, identified as a P-8 Poseidon, has changed course to move away from the Russian border,...
