Claims that Russian blogger Alexei Navalny has been poisoned are premature, the clinical picture does not correspond to the typical one in such situations, Head of the Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination of Moscow’s Health Department Sergey Shigeev told TASS on Tuesday.
"There is a lot of information in the...
Russia will expel an Austrian diplomat, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after Vienna ordered one of Russia’s diplomats to leave the country over what an Austrian newspaper said was a case of economic espionage, Reuters reported.
An Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman said earlier that Vienna was expelling a...
Moscow notes that the Belarusian protesters’ actions do not lead to clashes with the law enforcement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, expressing hope that clashes will also be avoided in the future, TASS reported.
"So far, we note that no provocation from the protesters took place. We note that...
The fifth and final volume of the U.S. Senate’s Select Intelligence Committee’s report on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election neither contains any real facts nor evidence, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in her commentary on Saturday, TASS reported.
"Like earlier released volumes of the report,...
Moscow expects to convene another meeting of representatives of Palestinian parties as soon as the epidemiological situation improves, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Russia's Trud newspaper, as reported by Sputnik News.
According to the diplomat, the restoration of Palestine's unity on the platform of the...
The case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is “very worrying” and he must receive all necessary medical treatment, the UN human rights office said on Friday, Reuters reported.
Allies of Navalny accused Russian authorities of thwarting his medical evacuation to Germany on Friday, saying the decision placed his life in...
Former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in her video address on YouTube has urged the workers of the country’s enterprises to continue and expand the strikes, TASS reported.
"Workers of Belaruskali, the Minsk Tractor Plant, Grodno Azot, and other enterprises! The future of Belarus, which also means the future of...
In a turnaround for the books, for once it was Russian President Vladimir Putin who was warning the West not to interfere in the internal politics of another country, during a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the fraught situation in Belarus on August 18, bne Intellinews...
Speaker of the Russian State Duma (the lower house of parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin and Chairman of the House of Representatives of the Belarusian National Assembly Vladimir Andreichenko have discussed the situation in Belarus, the State Duma’s press service said in a statement, as reported by TASS.
"Vyacheslav Volodin and Vladimir...
