Monday, May 5, 2025
The Kremlin said on Thursday it was possible there had been a misunderstanding after Italy’s prime minister said that President Vladimir Putin had promised to set up a commission to investigate the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, Reuters reported. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Moscow still saw...
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko will visit Russia on Sept. 14, the RIA news agency cited a diplomatic source as saying on Wednesday, Reuters reported. The Kremlin said on Monday Lukashenko would visit Moscow for talks “in the coming days”.
Berlin has been demonstrating an absolutely unacceptable attitude to Moscow’s legitimate demands and inquiries into the situation with Russian blogger Alexei Navalny, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on Wednesday, TASS reported. "Of course, we have amassed quite a few questions for our German colleagues regarding...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday there was a “substantial chance” that the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was ordered by senior Russian officials, Reuters reports. “There is a substantial chance that this actually came from senior Russian officials,” Pompeo told the Ben Shapiro radio...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confessed that he might have overstayed his term of office, but he emphasized that he is the only one who can "protect Belarusians," according to Rossiya-1 TV channel reporter Yevgeny Rozhkov, who took part in Lukahsenko’s interview for Russian reporters, TASS reports. "Yes, perhaps, I’ve sat...
The Kremlin has ridiculed the suggested creation of a 'Navalny List' that would impose more sanctions on Russians, following accusations that Moscow is responsible for the alleged poison attack on opposition figure Alexey Navalny, Russia Today writes. On Saturday, the American conservative journalist Bret Stephens wrote in the New York...
Russian businessman and CEO of Concord company Evgeny Prigozhin transferred a payment in the amount of 1 mln rubles ($13,200) to Berlin’s Charite hospital for Alexei Navalny’s treatment, the company’s press service said on its VK page, TASS reported. "The press service of the Concord company says that Evgeny Prigozhin...
Lawyers are looking for representatives of the Belarusian opposition’s Coordination Council Maria Kolesnikova, Ivan Kravtsov and Anton Rodnenkov whom they could not get in touch with, the council’s press service said on Monday, TASS reported. "We have so far been unable to get in touch with Maria Kolesnikova, Ivan Kravtsov...
The air forces of the US-led NATO military bloc have not only boosted their surveillance activities along Russia’s borders, but are now also increasingly training for potential strikes on the country’s soil, Russia Today reported. That's according to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. Speaking on national TV on Sunday, he...
The development of Russian-Turkish cooperation will in no way affect the dialogue between Moscow and Nicosia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros, TASS writes. "I would like to reassure our Cypriot friends that the deepening of Russian-Turkish cooperation and the need to...