The United States is trying to leverage the Internet exclusively to their advantage, which is deplorable, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday at a meeting on establishing an equal rights regime of Internet management, TASS reported.
"Not surprisingly, a number of countries, primarily the U.S., are seeking...
Russian journalists Semyon Pegov, Anton Starkov, Dmitry Lasenko and Vladislav Zizdok, who were released after detention in Belarus, have left capital city Minsk and will be escorted by Russian diplomats to the Russian border, Daily Storm Editor-in-Chief Alena Sivkova told TASS on Tuesday.
"They have left Minsk. As far as I...
Moscow will insist in its today’s contacts with Minsk that the situation around the detention of Russian journalists in Belarus be settled the soonest possible, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
"This situation needs to be settled based, first of all, on humane considerations. During our contact with...
Slovakia said Monday it had expelled three Russian diplomats for "a serious crime," with local media reporting a possible link with the killing of a former Chechen rebel in a Berlin park last year, The Moscow Times informed.
"I can confirm that a decision has been taken to expel three employees...
Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is in Lithuania, the country’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said on Tuesday, Tass informed.
"Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is safe. She is in Lithuania," he wrote on Twitter.
In an interview with the national radio LRT, Linkevicius also said that Tikhanovskaya arrived in Lithuania after spending seven hours in...
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he wanted neighboring Belarus to reactivate stalled plans for more integration with Russia after a contested election win left Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, an on-off Russian ally, on the defensive, New York Post informed.
Putin made his suggestion as the opposition in Belarus rejected...
The next round of Russian-U.S. strategic stability talks will take place on August 16-18 in Vienna, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov informed TASS on Monday.
"The consultations will take place on August 16-18 in Vienna," Ryabkov said.
Ryabkov and U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea previously held...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated his Belarusian colleague Alexander Lukashenko on his victory in the Belarusian presidential election, the Kremlin press service informed on Monday as reported by TASS.
"I expect that your statesmanship will facilitate the further development of mutually beneficial Russian-Belarusian relations in all spheres, as well...
One person was killed in the protests in Minsk on Sunday, representative of the Viasna human rights center Valentin Stefanovich told TASS in a phone conversation.
"Yes, there is information of one casualty. This happened as a result of special transport colliding with the participants of the protest. Three people...
