Section: Iran
The Year in Pictures 2015
THIS was the year of the great unraveling, with international orders and borders challenged or broken, with thousands of deaths, vast flows of migrants and terrorist attacks on some of the most cherished symbols of civilization, both Western and Muslim. Palmyra and Paris (twice). Aleppo, Homs, Kobani and even San Bernardino, Calif. The Syrian war...
Russia to introduce food embargo against Ukraine due to Kiev-EU trade deal
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Moscow will introduce a food embargo against Ukraine due to Kiev’s trade deal with the European Union (EU). According to Press TV, Medvedev said at a government meeting on Monday that the embargo will take effect next month. The ban is an extension to the punitive measures Russia has already...
EU extends anti-Russia sanctions over Ukraine
The European Council has prolonged economic sanctions against Russia over Ukraine by six months. …read more Source:...
Russia confirms food embargo on Ukraine
Russia will introduce a food embargo against Ukraine next month over Kiev’s trade deal with the EU, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday, extending punitive measures already in place against Western countries. …read more Source: Iran...
Russia to introduce food embargo against Ukraine due to Kiev-EU trade deal
The Russian premier says Moscow will introduce a food embargo against Ukraine. …read more Source:...
West can’t impose values on rest of the world: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized some Western powers for trying to impose their values and version of “democracy” on the rest of the world. Putin said in a documentary aired on Russian state television on Sunday that the leaders of certain Western countries had no right to force their ways on African and Middle Eastern nations....
Crimean Tatars Slam Turkey Over Aggressive Stance Towards Russia
TEHRAN (FNA)- Crimean Tatars condemn the anti-Russian policy of the Turkish government and demand urgent moves to resolve the conflict between the two countries, a public movement of the ethnic Tatars living on the Black Sea peninsula said in a resolution on Saturday. …read more Source: Fars News...
Putin says will not abandon Russians in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not abandon Russians living in southeast Ukraine to Ukrainian nationalists, the state-run RIA news agency quoted him as saying in a documentary due to be broadcast on Sunday. …read more Source: Iran...
Ukraine not to repay $3-billion debt to Russia: Premier
Ukraine’s prime minister says the country will not pay back its USD three-billion debt to Russia despite Moscow’s warning that it would take legal action against Kiev if it misses looming deadline for the debt redemption. Addressing a cabinet meeting on Friday, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Kiev had decided to impose a “moratorium” on the...
Ukraine not to repay $3-billion debt to Russia: Premier
The Ukrainian premier says his country has imposed a ‘moratorium’ on the USD three-billion Russian bond due on December 20. …read more Source:...
