Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wants a new term to steer the country towards the EU, whatever the cost Armenia, a small land-locked post-Soviet nation with extensive economic and humanitarian ties with Russia, is voting on its next parliament. The head of the ruling party, Prime Minister Nikol Pasinyan, who…
The Russian president has given his take on an “open letter,” in which the Ukrainian leader reiterated Kiev’s demands while calling for one-on-one talks Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he sees “no sense” in meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, responding to an open letter from the Ukrainian leader. The “author…
The swap was carried out with UAE mediation, according to Moscow Russia and Ukraine have conducted a prisoner of war exchange involving nearly 200 servicemen from each side, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has announced. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said, “185 Russian servicemen were returned from territory…
Finance has become a tool of external pressure, and Moscow should reduce reliance on foreign systems, Vladimir Chistyukhin has said Western sanctions must be “ignored,” the first deputy governor of the Bank of Russia, Vladimir Chistyukhin, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday. He added that Russia…
The president revealed that an unnamed Russian businessman was in Kiev for talks before Ukrainian forces killed 21 Russian students at a college dorm Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken part in a plenary session at this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, where he revealed that Kiev requested talks through…
Admitting Kiev would wreck the economic bloc and its officials understand this, the Russian foreign minister has told RT The EU is fully aware that Ukrainian accession would be disastrous for the bloc, and would sooner see the country join NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told RT. The…
The US president could have ended the Ukraine conflict by following through on his own proposals, the Russian foreign minister has told RT America’s position on the Ukraine conflict has become almost indistinguishable from that of the EU, making US President Donald Trump’s stated ambition to mediate an end to…
Berlin has only itself to blame for failing to get a seat on the Security Council, experts and journalists have said Losing what had been a quasi-guaranteed seat on the UN Security Council has caused considerable embarrassment across the German diplomatic establishment, which had openly talked of securing a permanent…
Kiev has removed a memorial to Mikhail Bulgakov as part of its campaign against Russian-linked heritage A monument to Kiev-born Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov has been dismantled in the Ukrainian capital as Kiev continues to remove, rename, and erase cultural sites and memorials associated with its common Russian and Soviet…
The Russian president answered questions on domestic and foreign policy at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Russian President Vladimir Putin fielded questions from the heads of international news agencies on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday. The agencies included Chinese, Belarusian, German, French, Spanish,…