Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain and the US have said in a joint statement that the attack in March in England on the Russian ex-agent Skripal 'almost certainly happened with permission of a high level.' This has the British Prime Minister Theresa May, British media reported.
Russia has started bombarding Idlib in preparation for a major offensive by the Syrian regime and pro-Iranian militias. Donald Trump warns against a 'reckless attack', which he says can cause 'hundreds of thousands of deaths'.
For the funeral of the East-Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist leader Aleksandr Zachartsjenko, tens of thousands of people came on their feet. The 42-year-old Zachartsjenko was killed last Friday in a bombing with his bodyguard.
The Russian navy and air force will hold large-scale maneuvers in the Mediterranean from this weekend until 8 September. There are 26 naval vessels participating, under the command of naval commander Vladimir Korolev. Flagship in this exercise is the cruiser Oestinov, reported news agency Sputnik. The participants mainly practice in the hunt for submarines and the defense against air attacks.
At the airport at the Russian resort of Sochi, a passenger plane has crashed during the landing. Several people were injured when the aircraft hit the runway Saturday morning and collided with a barrier.
The Russian super rich will soon no longer have to do with a simple Rolls Royce or Maybach. The Russian state-owned company Aurus presented the Senat yesterday at the Moscow auto show, a luxury version of Vladimir Putin's limousine.
A Belgian board member of the large Russian steel company NLMK was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his apartment in the center of Moscow.
The fighters who still control the northwestern Syrian Idlib province must be eliminated there soon. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this after an interview with his Saudi colleague Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir. Lavrov spoke about 'terrorists who form a tumor.'
Russia will hold the biggest military exercise in almost forty years next month. The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that yesterday. 'The exercise has no precedent in terms of geographical scale and troop strength,' says Shoigu.
The VDNCh park, where from 1959 until the end of the USSR in 1991 the so-called 'achievements' of the Soviet economy were exhibited, is fast becoming one of the most interesting parks on the whole globe. That is what the Moscow mayor Sergei Sobjanin says.
Russian opposition leader Alexej Navalni was sentenced to 30 days in jail by the judge. The Kremlin critic was found guilty of violation of the demonstration laws. As a result of this judicial decision, Navalni can not initiate a protest meeting against the pension reform in the coming month.
Aleksej Navalny was re-secured in Moscow on Saturday. The Russian opposition leader, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was arrested for his home in the capital for unclear reasons. His spokeswoman announced that.
Turkey can end the diplomatic conflict with the United States by letting the American preacher Andrew Brunson go. That is what the American national security adviser John Bolton says, which Ankara maintains that 'this crisis can be ended immediately'. \u0026 # X27; \u0026 # x27; if the spiritual ' without conditions \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; can leave.
Sergey Lavrov expects that a representative of the Taliban will take part in the Afghanistan conference on September 4 in Moscow. The Russian Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that besides the Afghan government, the radical Islamic insurgency movement was also invited. 'The first reactions are positive; they plan to attend the meeting. '
Russian hackers have focused their arrows on conservatives in the United States. Microsoft warns against this. The company claims to have taken over six domain names from the hackers. There were counterfeit sites of the think tanks The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute.
US President Donald Trump does not cross the bridge with 'concessions' to secure the release of preacher Andrew Brunson. Trump told the Reuters news agency that he already thought he had a deal with Turkey, but it would not have been fulfilled.
The Turkish authorities have arrested two men because of the bombardment of the American embassy in Ankara. A vehicle and a firearm were also seized. The arrested people in their thirties have a criminal record and made a confession after their arrest, the authorities in the Turkish capital report.
Unknown people have attacked the embassy of the United States in the Turkish capital Ankara with gunshots. This reported several Turkish media. The shots were fired from a moving car.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to expand the Turkish army's cross-border operations in Iraq and Syria. He will 'be the source of the threat \u0026 quot; to drain his land. Erdogan said that Saturday at the party conference of his Islamist conservative AK party in Ankara.
Russian President Putin speaks Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday evening in her official residence, the castle of Meseberg north of Berlin. This dialogue is the first they hold in Germany since relations cooled in 2014 after the Russian annexation of Crimea and the uprising in eastern Ukraine. Merkel began her fourth reign in March and Putin was re-elected in the same month. In May, Merkel visited Putin in Sochi.
The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu says he and EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans talk about speeding up visa-free travel for Turkish residents and about normalization of mutual relations.
The Turkish sanctions against US imported goods declared are not good. The lira fell by another 7% on Wednesday.
American national security adviser John Bolton met with the Turkish ambassador in the US on Monday about the American preacher Andrew Brunson. The White House said that this consultation took place at the request of Turkish ambassador Serdar Kilic.
The EU is deeply concerned about the health of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who is detained in Western Siberia and has been on a hunger strike since 14 May. In a press statement, the European Commission of Russia says 'to be expected' that the 42-year-old filmmaker receives appropriate medical treatment in a hospital.
Co-founder Maria Alyokhina of the activist Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot hopes to perform in De Oosterpoort in Groningen in January. She has a program in which she tells others about the original group, which in 2012 made the world press with a protest in a church in Moscow against the conditions under which Russian elections were held. The action against church and Kremlin gave her a prison sentence.
A Russian court sentenced four members of an extremely violent gang to life-long prison sentences. The gang members terrorized the roads around Moscow for years, where they committed seventeen murders. A fifth man is sentenced to 20 years in prison, reports Russian media.
Russia has reacted angrily to the 'draconian' sanctions announced by the United States. The Russian embassy in the US mentions the accusation that Moscow is responsible for an attack with the nerve gas Novitsjok 'far-fetched.'
The United States holds the Russian government responsible for the assassination attempt on a former double spy and its daughter in England with the nerve gas Novitsjok. That's what spokeswoman Heather Nauert of Foreign Affairs said. She promised Moscow new sanctions. They will take effect in two weeks.
Ten years after the five-day war between Russia and Georgia, which is being commemorated this week, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has informed the West that Moscow will regard NATO membership of Georgia as a provocation that can lead to 'a gruesome conflict.'
The Russian police started an investigation after a French actor became involved in a brawl in the Russian capital. Samy Naceri, known from the Taxi films, got into a fight with another visitor of a bar, news agency TASS.
