Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted on Thursday in favor of extending the Russian delegation’s rights in the organization, a TASS correspondent reported.
A total of 107 members voted yes, 36 were against and 24 more abstained.
The text of the resolution notes worsening negative...
Russia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a five-year extension of the New START nuclear arms control treaty with the United States, which a senior official said had been agreed on Moscow’s terms at the eleventh hour before it expires next week, Reuters reports.
Signed in 2010, the New START (Strategic Arms...
The upper chamber of the Russian parliament on Wednesday called on the United Nations and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to take action against the "arbitrariness" of U.S. online giants in order to prevent a "digital dictatorship," Sputnik reports.
"The Federation Council is calling on the...
Russia and the US have agreed to extend the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) without pre-conditions, as Moscow insisted, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told journalists on Wednesday, TASS informed.
"On our conditions," he said in response to a corresponding...
Russia expects that Moscow and Washington will manage to establish dialogue, and if the new U.S. administration is ready for this, Russian President Vladimir Putin will certainly take a reciprocal step, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday, TASS reports.
"The thing is that the Russian Federation has been consistently...
The Russian Embassy in the U.S. has expressed condolences over the passing of iconic U.S. talk show personality Larry King, Sputnik reports.
On Saturday morning, King’s company Ora Media broke the news that the talk show host died at the age of 87 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...
Russia plans to view the attempts of the U.S. embassy in Moscow to "cover" the unauthorized rallies in Russia as interference in internal affairs, the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote on its Telegram channel on Friday, TASS reports.
"All that coincides with Washington’s provocative doctrinal guidelines to encourage ‘protests in the...
Several hundred people in major cities of Russia’s Far East joined unauthorized protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny, with some scuffle and detentions taking place.
Sputnik’s correspondents learned from local authorities that around 500 protesters took to the streets in Vladivostok and around 250 in Khabarovsk. No...
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said on Thursday that the Russian Embassy has not yet had any contacts with the new administration of President Joe Biden, Sputnik reports.
"It’s 11:30 a.m. now in Washington, DC, the Embassy has not yet had any contacts with the Biden administration,"...
Russia welcomes the United States’ political will to extend the Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START), but everything will depend on the details of this proposal, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Friday, TASS reports.
"Russia is for preserving New...
