Thursday, May 2, 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...
The Russian Embassy in the U.S. has expressed condolences over the passing of iconic U.S. talk show personality Larry King, Sputnik reports. On Saturday morning, King’s company Ora Media broke the news that the talk show host died at the age of 87 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...
Washington will continue to put pressure on Moscow regardless of who wins the 2020 US presidential election, Head of Moscow State Institute of International Relations Anatoly Torkunov said, as reported by TASS. "No matter who wins, they will continue the policy of pressure as far as Russia goes. This is...
The idea of naming the European Union’s new human rights sanctions after Alexey Navalny is aimed at directing the restrictions against Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday, commenting on EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell’s initiative on...
Even as US President Donald Trump praised the “progress” made in talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan, air raid sirens sounded over Stepanakert in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, heralding another round of artillery bombardment, RT informs. “We’re working with Armenia. We have a very good relationship with Armenia. They’re very good people....
Moldova heads to the polls on Sunday for the second round of a tightly-contested presidential election pitting a pro-European challenger against the country's Moscow-backed incumbent, The Moscow Times reported. The tiny ex-Soviet nation votes under the watchful eye of Russia, which wants polarized Moldova to remain in its sphere of...
Russian and Belarusian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko may have discussed a model of further integration between Moscow and Minsk during their recent talks in Sochi, among other issues, head of the Belarusian Studies Center at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Mezhevich...
All accusations against Russia of trying to meddle in the electoral processes in the United States are totally unfounded, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday, as reported by TASS. Referring to remarks by Director of U.S. National Intelligence John Ratcliffe that Russia and Iran allegedly seek to influence...
While international commentators compare the ongoing unrest in Belarus with the 2014 Ukrainian Maidan, President Volodymyr Zelensky hopes his northern neighbor won't follow in Ukraine's footsteps, Russia Today informed. “I wouldn't want them to have similar events to what we had in 2014,” Zelensky told France-based news network Euronews. “I...
A Sukhoi Su-27SM fighter was scrambled to intercept a U.S. Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane near the Russian border over the Baltic Sea, Russia’s National Defense Control Center reported on Monday, TASS reported. Russian radars spotted an air target over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea approaching Russia’s state...