A Bulgarian embassy staffer has been deemed persona non grata by Russia, according to a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry invited Bulgarian Ambassador Atanas Krystin to provide him with a memo designating a Bulgarian embassy official persona non grata on May 26,...
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he would like to hold his proposed summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his June trip to Europe, Reuters reports.
"That is my hope and expectation. We're working on it," Biden told reporters after a speech about the U.S. response to the...
The Committee on Foreign Relations of the European Parliament presented a draft report, which sets out the basic principles of building relations with Russia, as reported by Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Thus, the principle of "support for democracy" presupposes, in particular, opposition to "Russian-language propaganda." For this, the European...
Russia intends to invest $1 billion in the Armenian economy in the near future, according to Dmitry Volvach, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the Eighth Armenian-Russian Interregional Forum on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"In mutual trade, we are...
According to an official statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, a staff member from the Italian Embassy will have to leave the country in 24 hours, Sputnik News reports.
Moscow has declared an Italian diplomat persona non grata, responding to a similar step by Rome.
"On 26 April, Italian Ambassador Pasquale...
There has been more disagreement between the UK and Russia on the two previous high profile crimes: Sergey Skripal's poisonings and Alexander Litvinenko's. The Scripal incident was charged by Scotland Yard against Denis Sergeev, another Russian citizen.
At the same time, Russian authorities were officially held responsible by the European...
On Monday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) granted Russia an aid relief in the amount of $17.55 billion as part of general support for all countries affected by the pandemic, which follows from the decision of the IMF Board of Governors.
The IMF approved an aid worth approximately $650 billion...
Russia was the only nation that refused to send its top UN representative to talks with US President Joe Biden on Thursday, electing instead to dispatch a junior envoy, as a diplomatic row between Moscow and Washington worsens, RT informed.
President Biden had invited permanent representatives from the United Nations...
Spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Moscow is doing all possible to guarantee that the rights of Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, who was detained in Minsk with opposition activist Roman Protasevich, be respected, as reported by TASS.
The envoy also warned against leaping to...
France on Friday accused Russia of using its Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine as a tool to spread Moscow's influence and message rather than as way to fight the global health crisis, The Moscow Times reports.
"In terms of how it is managed, it (the Sputnik V vaccine) is more a...
