Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday said peace talks with Azerbaijan under Russian mediation would be inappropriate, as fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region entered a fourth day, The Moscow Times reported.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have defied international calls for a ceasefire over Karabakh — an ethnic-Armenian region that...
Two police officers were killed on Tuesday in a shootout with militants in the capital of Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic’s leader, wrote on social media, Reuters reported.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee had reported the incident earlier, saying the militants had been planning to launch unspecified...
The presidential bill envisaging new rules to form the Federation Council (the upper house of Russia’s parliament) will be considered by the State Duma (the lower house) in November, Chairman of the Committee on State Building and Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov told TASS on Saturday.
"We will be considering it in...
Reports in certain mass media about the recall of Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu are groundless, the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan says on Sunday, according to TASS.
"Reports of certain news media about the recall of the Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Russia are contrary to facts. We remind that appointment...
Turkey and Russia have concluded an agreement to set up a joint center for monitoring ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"Negotiations have been completed on the technical details concerning the basics and principles of operation of a joint Turkish-Russian center. An agreement has...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has wared Western nations against trying to break down the architecture of the Dayton Accords as it is fraught with serious consequences, TASS reported.
"I would like to warn seriously some of our partners against trying to break down the Dayton architecture. We observe such...
Russian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and took her in for questioning early on Friday after raiding her home, Reuters reports.
There was no immediate comment from the police.
Supporters of Navalny said the police action appeared to be...
Russian citizens are not among those detained or injured in the January 6 riots outside the U.S. Congress, the Russian embassy in the U.S. said in a statement on Facebook on Friday, as reported by TASS.
"The Russian Embassy in the United States is closely monitoring the situation in connection with...
Several hundred people in major cities of Russia’s Far East joined unauthorized protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny, with some scuffle and detentions taking place.
Sputnik’s correspondents learned from local authorities that around 500 protesters took to the streets in Vladivostok and around 250 in Khabarovsk. No...
Russia has expelled a number of foreign diplomats due to the actions by foreign diplomatic missions during the unlawful rallies, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, adding that Russia will not put up with this behavior, TASS informed.
"The expulsion of diplomats that took place the day before...
