The Russian National Guard has signed a cooperation agreement with Belarus’ police force to combat “terrorism and extremism,” Interfax reported Friday.
The agreement comes amid months of opposition protests in Belarus against the country’s disputed presidential election. Belarus’ Moscow-backed President Alexander Lukashenko has accused the opposition of being backed by...
President Vladimir Putin said media reports that Russian state security agents had poisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny were part of a U.S.-backed plot to try to discredit him, saying Navalny was not important enough to be a target, Reuters reports.
Navalny, one of Putin’s leading critics, was airlifted to Germany...
The United States, responding to Russia blaming Washington for starting a new arms race, on Thursday reiterated a proposal already rejected by Moscow for extending their last strategic arms limitation treaty, appearing to close the door to talks in the final weeks of the Trump administration, Reuters reports.
The 2010...
Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included economic measures against Ankara for the acquisition of Russian S-400 missile defense systems, Sputnik reports.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusolgu has stated that US sanctions will have no impact on the country, adding that Ankara...
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped U.S. President-elect Joe Biden would help resolve some of the difficult issues in relations between Moscow and Washington, Reuters quotes him as saying.
Speaking at his annual press conference, Putin added that Russian hackers had not meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential...
Russia on Wednesday rejected the findings of a joint media investigation that said it had identified Russian state security assassins behind the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, describing it as an “amusing” read, Reuters reports.
“We’re already used to the fact that the United States and other Western countries...
Permanent representatives of the 27 member states of the European Union agreed on a six-month extension of economic sanctions against Russia, which expire on January 31, 2021, a source in the delegation of one of the European countries in the EU Council told TASS.
"Yes, the ambassadors have just agreed...
The issues in the relations between the European Union and the United States, which exacerbated under Donald Trump’s presidency, will not be as acute under Joe Biden, but they will still remain there, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov told an online briefing Wednesday, TASS reports.
"Some landmark...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov brushed off the refusal of Bosnian Muslim and Croat representatives to meet with him in Sarajevo, saying they acted on instructions from outside powers not interested in peace in Bosnia, RT reported.
The incident will not in the least affect Russia’s position on developing...
Fiona Hill, once US President Donald Trump’s most prominent Russia adviser, has warned Joe Biden not to underestimate the country when he steps up to the top job in January, RT informed.
Speaking to the New York Times in an article published on Tuesday, Hill claimed that former president “Barack...
