Friday, March 29, 2024
Russia and Belarus are not just friends, they are brothers, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said responding to a statement by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that his country has no friends in the world, TASS informed. "We go on a premise that such a statement can hardly apply to Russia," the...
By their actions the Western nations have only precipitated regulation of the internet sphere, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday, TASS reported. "It was them to precipitate what we have been stopping short of doing for quite a long time. We felt embarrassed about the necessity to...
The US and its allies plan a large-scale information campaign on discrediting Russian anti-Covid products amid rising demand for the Sputnik V vaccine, a high-level Kremlin source told TASS. "According to our intelligence agencies, the US and its allies plan to deploy a large-scale informational campaign, aimed at forming biased...
Russia will convene an informal UN Security Council meeting on Crimea on March 17, Russia’s first deputy envoy to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said in his Telegram channel, TASS writes. The diplomat said that Western nations announced an Arria formula meeting devoted to Crimea, to be held at the UN...
Moscow will soon publish a blacklist in response to U.S. sanctions, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Channel One’s Vremya Pokazhet (or Time Will Tell) show on Friday, TASS reports. "Given how they are acting, including the fact that they published all lists at once, I think that...
Slovakia has found itself in a diplomatic row after its prime minister made an offhand joke about paying for Russian coronavirus vaccine shipments with Ukrainian territory, The Moscow Times reports. Kiev demanded an apology after Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič said in a radio interview Wednesday that he promised Russia...
The European Union’s internal processes have put progress in easing EU visa requirements for Russian youth out of reach for the time being, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with the Govorit Moskva radio station on Thursday, TASS reports. " have closed their borders, and they...
Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had thwarted a planned “terror” attack on a power site in Kaliningrad region and that it had arrested a suspect, the Interfax news agency reported. The report said the FSB had seized a home-made bomb and that the alleged attacker had been...
The latest sanctions by the United States and the European Union against Russian individuals and organizations are intervention in Russia’s internal affairs, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Wednesday, adding that such restrictions were unacceptable, TASS reported. "We regard any such restrictions as absolutely unacceptable," Peskov said....
The United States may announce additional sanctions on Russia within weeks, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters, TASS informed. In response to a question when Washington would announce if there would be additional sanctions on Russia, Psaki said that it would be "weeks, not months." "It’s an ongoing...