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Germany remains interested in maintaining good or "at least reasonable" relations with Russia, despite the incident with opposition figure Alexey Navalny, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told RIA Novosti in an interview. Germany, where Navalny was transported to after falling ill aboard a Russian domestic flight, claims to have evidence of...
U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife are applying for Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from their future son in an era of pandemics and closed borders, Reuters reported. Snowden’s wife, Lindsay, is expecting a child in late December, the RIA news agency cited Anatoly Kucherena, his...
Maia Sandu has won Moldova’s presidential election with 57.75% of the vote, while Igor Dodon gained 42.25% with 100% of ballots counted, according to the country’s Central Election Commission, Tass informed. According to data published on the commission’s website, voter turnout was 52.78%. Moldova held the second round of its presidential...
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not make decisions to counter the opposition, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reported. "These positions are not taken into account," he said, answering a corresponding question. Peskov was asked to comment on the statement made by Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny in...
The alleged poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has strained the already stuttering relations between Moscow and some Western powers, who hit top Russian officials accused of being involved with sanctions. The Kremlin denies the allegations and has vowed to fight back with counter measures, Sputnik reported. An international...
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has apprehended four members of the Islamic State terror group (outlawed in Russia) who were plotting a terror attack near the building of the law enforcement agencies, the FSB Public Relations Center informed TASS on Saturday. "The Federal Security Service, together with the Russian Interior...
Belarusians have brotherly feelings for all Russian nationals, not just for Russian people proper, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview aired on the Russia-1 TV channel, TASS reports. "I was thinking more about what Russian citizens represent for Belarus, for Belarusian people, and also for myself. This is...
Russia expects that Moscow and Washington will manage to establish dialogue, and if the new U.S. administration is ready for this, Russian President Vladimir Putin will certainly take a reciprocal step, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday, TASS reports. "The thing is that the Russian Federation has been consistently...
According to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the expulsion of an Albanian diplomat is in response to Albania ousting a Russian diplomat for allegedly violating coronavirus measures on 21 January 2021. Russia has expelled an Albanian diplomat in a ‘tit-for-tat’ move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday, Sputnik...
Russia sees a chance to resurrect the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal and is proposing a synchronized approach including “concrete” steps by the Biden administration to help Iran and the U.S. break their deadlock, the country’s top negotiator said, Bloomberg reports. “There’s a chance now that hasn’t existed for a long time,”...