Russia has never politicized the issue of the COVID-19 vaccination, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, Sputnik News reports.
"Russia had no aspirations to politicize vaccines and no aspirations to use the vaccine as an instrument of influence, and never will", Peskov told reporters when asked about Macron’s statement.
The...
Russia’s State Duma (the lower house of parliament) has passed the third reading of a bill allowing Vladimir Putin to run for president again, TASS reports.
According to one of the amended provisions of the Russian Constitution, presidential term limits apply to the incumbent head of state without regard to...
Bulgarian prosecutors said on Friday they had charged six Bulgarians, including senior officials from the defense ministry and military intelligence, with spying for Russia, Reuters reported.
The Russian embassy in Sofia said in a comment on its website it expected that until a court ruled on the case that all...
Russia’s communications watchdog said on Friday that Twitter had yet to respond to its requests to remove banned content after threatening to block the social media platform in one month unless it complied with its demands, the Interfax news agency reported.
Moscow said earlier this month it had slowed down...
Edward Snowden, a fugitive former CIA contractor who exposed massive online surveillance by the United States in 2013, will apply for Russian citizenship soon, his lawyer told Sputnik News.
"The documents are ready", Anatoly Kucherena said, adding the papers will be handed over to the authorities shortly.
Snowden fled the United...
The G7 group of leading economic powers said on Thursday it would not accept Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, in a statement marking seven years since the takeover, The Moscow Times reports.
"We unequivocally denounce Russia's temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol....
The Kremlin considers the claims on Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2020 US presidential elections as unfounded, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reported.
"We consider that this report is wrong," the Kremlin spokesman said. "It is absolutely unfounded and has no proof," he emphasized.
On Tuesday,...
The 2014 referendum on the status of Crimea was legitimate from the standpoint of international law and Ukrainian legislation, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Tuesday, TASS reports.
"That referendum was legitimate essentially, from the standpoint of international law and from the standpoint of Ukraine’s own laws,"...
Moscow considers Kiev’s efforts to reclaim Crimea as illegitimate, they represent a threat of aggression against two Russian regions, TASS reports citing spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
"All efforts by Kiev to reclaim Crimea are illegitimate and cannot be interpreted in any other way but a threat...
Dozens of countries took Russia to task at the UN on Friday over its imprisonment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and slammed numerous "arbitrary arrests" of his supporters, The Moscow Times reported.
In a historic joint statement delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council, 45 countries voiced alarm at...
