CIA and Pentagon instructors are implicated in preparing protests in Belarus, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin said Tuesday as cited by the service’s press bureau, TASS reported.
"’Fighters for renewed Belarus are trained in Poland, Georgia, Ukraine and the Baltic states with participation of instructors from the CIA and...
President Vladimir Putin encouraged Russians on Thursday to vote in parliamentary elections later this week, in which the most outspoken Kremlin opponents are banned from participating, Moscow Times writes.
"I rely on your responsible, balanced, patriotic civic stance," Putin said in a video message posted on the Kremlin website tonight.
After...
Belarusian police on Monday threatened to fire live bullets at protesters, claiming that opposition demonstrations against strongman Alexander Lukashenko were becoming ever more radicalized, as reported by The Moscow Times.
"Law enforcement officers and internal troops will not leave the streets and will use riot control equipment and lethal weapons...
The Kremlin said on Friday that it wanted dialogue with Germany over the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and that Russian doctors who treated him initially were much more transparent than the German doctors treating him now, Reuters reported.
Germany, where Navalny is in hospital, has said he was...
Russia hopes that the success of the presidential election in the Central African Republic will help bring about stabilization, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a news release on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"We express the hope that the election’s success will contribute to normalization of the situation in the country...
Servicemen participating in the "Slavic Brotherhood 2020" military drills near Belarus’s Brest performed a number of firing tasks during the initial stage of the exercise, Belarusian Defense Ministry announced Thursday, TASS reported.
"The airborne troops of both countries crossed a water obstacle and performed a number of firing tasks using...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday diplomats from France and the United States were expected in Moscow soon to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Reuters reported.
Russia has brokered a ceasefire that secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azeri troops have been battling ethnic Armenian forces over...
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that numerous groups with anti-Russian sentiments want to marginalize Russia in the Council of Europe, TASS informed.
She stated these anti-Russian groups are currently trying to politicize every matter and that is the biggest problem.
She also stated that...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday said peace talks with Azerbaijan under Russian mediation would be inappropriate, as fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region entered a fourth day, The Moscow Times reported.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have defied international calls for a ceasefire over Karabakh — an ethnic-Armenian region that...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the situation in Afghanistan with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday, the U.S. State Department said, following media reports Russia offered money to militants to kill Americans in Afghanistan, Reuters reported.
The Trump administration has downplayed the reports, saying U.S. agencies have...
