Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Russia and China openly mock President Joe Biden, former US President Donald Trump said. Speaking at the North Carolina Republican convention, he said that the Democratic Party is "destroying" the United States. "And now Biden is openly mocked by Chinese negotiators and Russian President Vladimir Putin. They laugh at him...
The Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, enacted a measure on Wednesday that places a temporary prohibition on leaders and members of groups designated as extremist or terrorist in Russia, as well as persons associated with such groups, from being elected. At the Federation Council meeting, 146 senators voted...
For the first time, Russia said on Tuesday that it could fly long-range strategic nuclear-capable bombers from its Syrian air base, extending its capability and enabling those planes to practice in new areas, Reuters reports. Russia runs the Hmeymim air base on Syria's Mediterranean coast, from which it has conducted...
President Joe Biden supported the EU's call for targeted economic sanctions and other actions against Belarus, and directed his team to establish effective measures for keeping those responsible for the Ryanair plane incident and the detention of Roman Protasevich, one of the leaders of the Nexta Telegram channel, which...
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nobel laureate and human rights advocate Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Dmitriyev, a Russian gulag historian spending 13 years in prison, was awarded the Sakharov Freedom Award, The Moscow Times informs. Dmitriyev was honored for his work reassembling bones from mass graves to trace...
The Kremlin's agenda does not include the issue of introducing mandatory vaccination against coronavirus, Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian President, told RIA Novosti. Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that now the Russian authorities proceed from the voluntariness of vaccinations, however, in order to...
According to Russian news media quoting the Russian military, a Su-27 fighter plane was dispatched to escort a US B-52H bomber over the Baltic Sea. The Su-27 was intercepted, according to TASS, in order to identify the target and prevent it from crossing the Russian border. It was classified as a...
Sergey Naryshkin, head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, told Channel One television on Wednesday that the registration of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is stalled by "signals from the halls of influence" in Brussels. In the midst of the pandemic, this is unethical, he said. In August 2020, Russia...
A bill has been introduced that toughens control over the issuance of a medical certificate for issuing a weapon permit has been submitted to the State Duma. The draft law proposes to replace the list of basic requirements of the law on weapons, with a new concept of "medical...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin made an annual report to the State Duma on the work of the government in which he discussed the coronavirus, support for citizens and businesses in the pandemic, the restoration of the labor market, the development of healthcare, science and education, and others, Russian...