Thursday, April 25, 2024
The Kremlin is concerned by the developments in Armenia but believes it is exclusively a domestic affair of the country, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Thursday as reported by TASS. Earlier on Thursday, the Armenian Armed Forces General Staff issued a statement demanding resignations of the prime minister and government...
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained 16 supporters of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi youth gang dubbed M.K.U. in nine Russian cities, the FSB said in a statement, as reported by TASS. "The Federal Security Service and the Investigative Committee in Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Saratov, Tambov, Tyumen, Chita, Anapa, Pushchino (the Moscow...
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...
A one-time officer in the elite U.S. Green Beret special forces unit has pleaded guilty to charges he conspired to provide American defense secrets to Russian spies, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday, as reported by Reuters. Federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, said that former Green Beret captain Peter Rafael Dzibinski...
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...
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 European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Moscow over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but not straight away to give time to uncover the culprits, according to the bloc’s executive and diplomatic sources, Reuters reported. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday the Kremlin critic,...
Lyubov Sobol, a key associate of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, has fled Russia days after being sentenced to parole-like restrictions as part of a crackdown on the opposition, Reuters reported, citing Russia's RT and REN TV stations. Sobol was unable to be reached for comment. Her supporters refused to speak...
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...
Around 5,000 troops part of the Central Military District of Russia started drills for integrated combat readiness at practice ranges in Siberia, the press office of the District said on Monday. The press office's statement said that the 5,000 troops that are from the combined arms formation kicked off the...