The question of deploying Russian military facilities in Belarus is not on the agenda, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Wednesday, TASS reported.
"This question is not on the agenda," he said when asked about the possibility of creating a Russian military base in Belarus. About the...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
She said Berlin now expected Moscow to explain itself and that Germany would consult...
A Russian court has barred a candidate promoted by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in the last video before his sudden illness from running for a seat on the city council in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Navalny’s team said on Monday, Reuters reported.
“We learned today that a court had barred our candidate...
Russia considers the use of multiple launch rocket systems by the U.S. armed forces during the military exercises in Estonia to be provocative and extremely dangerous for regional stability, Russian embassy in Washington said in a statement released on Monday, TASS reports.
"We drew attention to reports, in particular in...
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will take part in an all-Russian open lesson dedicated to the memory of the Great Patriotic War. The event is timed to coincide with the beginning of the school year, TASS reported.
"The President will take part in an all-Russian open lesson by video conference,"...
Montenegro’s opposition coalition, which claimed a tiny majority in Sunday’s election on a platform of seeking closer links with Serbia and Russia, has called Western sanctions against Moscow a mistake, The Moscow Times reported.
Zdravko Krivokapić, leader of the For the Future of Montenegro coalition, told Russia’s RIA Novosti news...
Russia on Tuesday denounced sanctions against ally Belarus as "unacceptable" and voiced support for strongman Alexander Lukashenko's proposal of constitutional reforms, The Moscow Times reported.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Western countries were "delivering verdicts" on events in Belarus, following weeks of protests against Lukashenko's claim to have won a...
The U.S. ambassador to Russia visited on Monday a former U.S. Marine who has just started a nine-year sentence in a Moscow jail, and said the United States was pushing for his release, Reuters reported.
A Russian court in July convicted Trevor Reed, a student at the University of North...
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday said Europe would not follow the U.S. “America First” policy of President Donald Trump and kept up pressure on Russia to do more to clarify the case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Reuters reported.
Speaking at a conference in Paris, Maas called for...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a phone conversation highlighted the importance of continuing efforts on strengthening good neighborly relations between Russia and Japan, the Kremlin press service said on Monday, TASS reported.
"Both sides stressed the importance of continuing efforts on strengthening good...
