Thursday, April 25, 2024
Beirut’s anti-government protests have not affected the search and rescue operation conducted by the rescue and medical teams of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the area of the explosion in the Lebanese capital, the crisis center told TASS on Saturday. "The protests have had no impact on the search and...
A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced three young activists to long jail terms for plotting to overthrow President Vladimir Putin in a case that has sparked protests and allegations of police overreach, The Moscow Times informed. In 2018, authorities detained 10 people accusing them of belonging to an anarchist cell...
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has described Russian President Vladimir Putin as his elder brother, TASS reported. "I regard Putin as my elder brother, and I sincerely believe that he is my brother," Lukashenko told Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon in a TV interview. "Not in the sense one in command as...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has handed down instructions to invite the Russian and Ukrainian prosecutor generals to sort out the case of Russian nationals detained in Belarus, the BelTA news agency reported. The prosecutor generals of the three countries need to "sit down together" and "make a decision on these...
One of the great mysteries in US/UK analysis of Russia is the apparently almost universally accepted belief that the implosion of Putin's system would somehow gift Moscow 'back' to the West, resetting the clock to the 1990s, Russia Today reported. The general consensus seems to be that Russians are secretly...
The board of Russia’s anti-doping agency (RUSADA) called on the country’s sports authorities on Wednesday to consider firing its director over allegations he presided over serious financial irregularities, Reuters writes. Yuri Ganus, who was named director of RUSADA in August 2017, denied the allegations made by Russia’s Olympic Committee last...
London significantly overestimates its importance in the Russian politics by constantly accusing Moscow of meddling into the United Kingdom’s internal affairs, Russia’s UK Ambassador Andrei Kelin said in an interview with Daily Mail. "I feel that Britain exaggerates, very much, its place in Russian thinking. The scope and place of...
Washington’s deployment of land-based short-and intermediate-range missiles in various regions around the world will provoke an immediate reaction from Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday, TASS reported. "It is clear that deployment of American land-based short-and intermediate-range missiles globally seriously undermines regional and global security and will provoke a...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Russian Government to submit the proposals to change the legislation considering the amendments that had been proposed but not included in the Constitution by December 15, TASS reported. As the Kremlin official website reported on Friday, he assigned this task after meeting with...
Belarus and Ukraine have agreed to beef up their border controls and expand border cooperation after Belarus detained more than 30 alleged Russian mercenaries near Minsk ahead of Belarus’ presidential election, the Belarusian foreign ministry said. The move aims to prevent any attempts to destabilize the two countries, the Belarusian...