Moscow has decided to expel two employees of the Dutch embassy in Moscow as a response to similar actions taken by Amsterdam, TASS reported.
"On January 18, acting charge d’affaires of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Joost Reintjes was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. He was communicated a resolute...
The deputy chief of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted the US’ strive to restore ‘to a certain extent’ its image as a reliable strategic partner. In his op-ed published by tass.com on Saturday he referred to election pledges of US President-elect Joe Biden to extend the START III...
Russia is launching domestic procedures to withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, as reported by TASS.
"Given the lack of progress in efforts to remove obstacles preventing the future functioning of the treaty in a new situation, the Russian Foreign...
Russia is aware that threats of deterioration in the relations with the United States still remain, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova told a briefing Friday, commenting on the post published by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Twitter, TASS reported.
"There are no prospects in engaging...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's defiant pledge to return to Moscow from Germany after surviving a poisoning attack puts the Kremlin in a major bind, The Moscow Times reports.
President Vladimir Putin, observers say, is caught between a rock and a hard place: allow his most outspoken critic to freely...
On the night of January 14, Twitter for a while suspended the account of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, citing a hacking attack from U.S. territory as the reason, TASS reports citing Ivestia. News about the account’s suspension came amid reports of the death of 23 people in Norway,...
Amnesty International said Thursday Azerbaijan and Armenia must immediately probe the use of "inaccurate and indiscriminate weapons" in heavily populated civilian areas during the recent fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory, The Moscow Times reports.
Azerbaijan and Armenia in November signed a Moscow-brokered peace deal ending six weeks of brutal...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is on a national wanted list for allegedly violating the terms of a suspended prison sentence and risks being jailed for three and a half years when he returns to Russia this weekend, one of his lawyers said on Thursday, Reuters reports.
Navalny announced on Wednesday...
The two top diplomats met in Moscow to discuss bilateral cooperation in nuclear energy and the space industry, as well as exchange views on topical regional issues, Sputnik reports.
Sputnik is live from Moscow as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud,...
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan on Thursday denounced Iran’s “interventions” in the Middle East region, after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Reuters reports.
Speaking at a joint news conference in Moscow with Lavrov, broadcast on Saudi TV, the Saudi minister said Tehran’s proxy militias were...
