According to evil tongues also built to keep the imperial ambitions of Russia in check. Because almost a quarter of the population in the country consists of ethnic Russians. 'Who says Putin this...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has followed a successful test of a new Russian hypersonic missile system on Wednesday, reported the RIA news agency. The missile system, called Avangard,...
The tensions between Moscow and Tokyo threaten to grow rapidly, after Moscow announced that they would be stationing thousands of additional soldiers on two of the four Kuril Islands that Stalin had in 1945...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has attacked the leadership of neighboring Ukraine in extremely sharp terms.
In the Turkish capital Ankara, a high-speed train derailed on Thursday morning and crashed into a metal bridge. There were at least four deaths and 43 injured. There would also be passengers...
While Kiev closed the border yesterday for all Russian men between sixteen and sixty years old, the Kremlin showed that the Russians can not be fooled with the announcement that as from next year foreign warships that want to pass through the Arctic Ocean can only do so. with previous green light from Moscow.
Trumps company wanted to give President Putin a penthouse of 50 million dollars. The Russian president could then live in the top of the 100-storey Trump Tower in Moscow. The gift should have tempted Putin to approve the project. Trump has been dreaming of his name in gold letters on a tower in Moscow for years.
Moscow must be informed in advance if foreign naval vessels want to pass through the northeastern passage, the sea route along the Russian north coast or Siberia.
The Trump Organization, the holding company in which US President Donald Trump is holding business, proposed in 2016 to give Russian President Vladimir Putin a penthouse worth fifty million dollars in the Trump Tower that the company wanted to build in Moscow. In this way Russian wanted to insure permission and also push the price.
A former associate of Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, has signed an agreement with special prosecutor Robert Mueller and has lied to the Congress.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has escalated further as Russia has announced that it will prosecute the imprisoned Ukrainian seamen. Within the European Union, more and more voices are rising to tighten the sanctions already against the Russians since the Crimea's capture by Moscow. Meanwhile, it remains deafening from the White House where President Trump barely talks about the matter.
NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg urgently asked Monday to intercept the Sunday intercepted Ukrainian navy ships and the passengers. According to him there is no justification for the action of Moscow.
The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has asked the parliament to declare the state of siege for a period of sixty days.
Government officials from Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine come together in Berlin on Monday to find a solution to the conflict over the Ukrainian ships that the Russians have seized. A German government spokesman has reported this. Shortly before, Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas had called on Russia and Ukraine to stop the quarrel.
The three ships of the Ukrainian navy seized by the Russian army were towed to the port of Kerch in Crimea. Witnesses told the Reuters news agency that the ships are not badly damaged on the eye and that people in navy uniforms stopped at the vessels.
The crew of the Belgian naval ship de Godetia was shocked by two Russian SU-24 bombers that flew low on Thursday morning in the Baltic Sea. The Godetia is currently the command ship of the NATO fleet of mine fighters in the north. The bombers wore rockets under their wings
The United States has recordings in which Mohammed bin Salman orders the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. That writes the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.
Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalni is allowed to travel to Russia. He stated that on the internet on Wednesday. The dissident was stopped at Moscow airport on Tuesday when he wanted to get on the plane. He was on his way to Strasbourg to attend the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in his case.
The Austrian authorities suspect a former army officer of having spied for Russia for decades. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz asked Moscow for clarification, reports Austrian media.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Thursday of the rising tensions between Russia and the United States and not to return to the days of the Cold War.
Moscow has a square named after former British double-spy Kim Philby. The latter passed to the Soviet Union in 1963 and died in 1988. The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobjanin, has, according to the media, by decree ordered the name change of a crossroads in the southwest of the Russian capital, where the headquarters is also from the foreign intelligence service.
Russia has discreetly invited important Afghan politicians to talk to the Taliban in Moscow about peace. Moscow thus passes the Afghan government, which is not pleased with the plan, reports the Reuters news agency on the basis of discussions with those involved.
The Russian government has put many prominent Ukrainians on the sanction list. The punitive measures, according to Russian media, include politicians, judges, businessmen and senior government officials.
Agents of the Russian security service FSB have arrested six terrorists in the Moscow region who wanted to carry out attacks in the capital. According to the state media, they were controlled by leaders of Islamic State in Syria.
The US has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington. National safety advisor John Bolton announced this Friday in Georgian Tbilisi. Bolton was in Moscow the last few days.
Due to the collapse of an escalator, several people were seriously injured in Rome. That reports the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero.
In order to make up for the stalled relations between the two countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited his American counterpart Donald Trump to sit down together in Paris next month.
In the dispute with the United States about the termination of the INF disarmament treaty, Russia is prepared to work on resolving mutual grievances. This was announced by the Russian Security Council after a meeting of security advisor Nicolai Patroesjev with his American counterpart John Bolton.
Turkey will do everything in its power to clarify the 'shameful murder' of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. That's what President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said to reporters Monday. After a cabinet meeting, he once again said that the Turkish authorities concerned had set themselves the goal of getting all the details in this case to the table.
The vote in the Macedonian parliament supporting the change of the name of the country has been manipulated by a combination of blackmail, threats and buying votes. That said the Russian Foreign Ministry Monday.
