Thursday, March 28, 2024
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov is confident that Russia doesn’t present any threat to European countries, so the fewer U.S. servicemen are on the continent, the better, TASS reported. "We’ve never concealed that the fewer U.S. soldiers are on the European continent, the calmer it is in Europe, this position of...
Russian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for a sentence of nearly 10 years in a penal colony for a former U.S. marine accused of attacking police officers, The Moscow Times reported. Trevor Reed, a 28-year-old student and former Marine from Texas, allegedly attacked police while drunk after attending a party last...
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on the actions of law enforcement officers at unauthorized protests in Khabarovsk, Kommersant reported. During the last mass rally, held in the city on July 25, three people were detained. In other Russian cities, the residents of which came out with pickets in...
The Russian defense ministry said it had sent a Su-27 fighter plane on Monday to intercept a U.S. surveillance plane over the Black Sea that it said was approaching the Russian border. The U.S. plane, identified as a P-8 Poseidon, has changed course to move away from the Russian border,...
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday welcomed efforts to resolve Ukraine's conflict with Kremlin-backed separatists during a phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin ahead of a ceasefire starting Monday, The Moscow Times informed. Moscow and Kiev agreed to implement a ceasefire in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbass during negotiations...
Russia continues to supply a broad range of arms to Libyan rebels including fighter jets, air defense missiles, land mines, and armored vehicles through the state-backed mercenary Wagner Group, the U.S. Defense Department said Friday, The Moscow Times has reported. The Pentagon released satellite photographs that it said shows Wagner-supplied...
Head of Russia’s Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has banned U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from entering the region, he announced at a meeting in Grozny on Friday, TASS reported. On July 20, the U.S. State Department imposed visa sanctions against Kadyrov, his wife and daughters. "I invited Mr. Pompeo to visit,...
President Vladimir Putin was told by his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Thursday he wanted to avoid a costly arms race with Russia and China and hoped for progress in arms control negotiations, the White House said, Reuters reported. “President Trump reiterated his hope of avoiding an expensive three-way arms...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected on Wednesday any suggestion that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union had been influenced by Russian interference, Reuters reported. A day after a report by parliament’s intelligence and security committee said the government had failed to try to find out whether Russia had meddled...
Russia expects that the United States will take exhaustive measures to ensure personal security of Russian journalists, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday commenting on the incident with employees of Russia’s Channel One who were attacked by U.S. law enforcement officers, TASS reported. "We view as outrageous the attack...