Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the situation in Belarus in a phone call, and Moscow reiterated its position on the inadmissibility of attempts to interfere in the country's internal affairs, the Kremlin said in a statement, as reported by Sputnik News.
The sides also agreed...
Poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, now recovering in Berlin, told Der Spiegel magazine that he intended to return to Russia to continue his political activities, campaigning to unseat President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported.
“I will not give Putin the gift of not returning to Russia,” he told the magazine in...
Authorities in Belarus on Tuesday suspended independent news provider Tut.by for three months, a move decried by the opposition to beleaguered President Alexander Lukashenko, The Moscow Times reported.
Tut.by has been covering widespread protests against Lukashenko since his recent disputed election win over rival Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who denounced the halting...
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...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seriously concerned by the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, TASS reported.
The Kremlin press service said Tuesday that "the Armenian side initiated a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan" when the leaders "continued to discuss the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh...
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...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday discussed possible medical cooperation, including on the development of COVID-19 vaccines, the Kremlin said in a statement, Reuters reported.
The Kremlin did not give more detail on the nature of the potential cooperation that it said was discussed...
A Russian court on Tuesday lengthened the prison sentence for Yuri Dmitriev, a historian of Stalin-era crimes who was charged with sexually abusing his adopted daughter, to 13 years from three and a half years, Interfax cited his lawyer as saying.
In July, Dmitriev was found guilty, but spared a...
Russia’s Foreign Minister said it was necessary to move from words to deeds in the Korean settlement, as reported by Sputnik News.
Lavrov said Russia had invariably advocated the continuation of the joint negotiation process to resolve the entire set of problems on the Korean Peninsula, including nuclear. The minister...
Russia never meddles in internal affairs of the neighboring countries and it always supports their authorities in efforts to stabilize the situation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he met with President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov on Monday, TASS reported.
"You know, we never meddle in internal affairs of our...
