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Russia ready for more dialogue with U.S.
Russia’s top diplomat said Sunday his country was ready for more engagement with the U.S. on North Korea, Syria, Ukraine and other pressing matters, even as Moscow braced for new sanctions from the Trump administration. …read more Source: The Daily...
EU slaps new sanctions on Moscow over Crimea turbines
The EU expanded its Russia sanctions blacklist Friday, targeting three people including the deputy energy minister and three companies involved in diverting gas turbines sold by German firm Siemens to Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: The Daily...
EU slaps new sanctions on Russia over Crimea turbines
The EU expanded its Russia sanctions blacklist Friday, targeting three people including the deputy energy minister and three companies involved in diverting gas turbines sold by German firm Siemens to Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia ties most ‘difficult’ since Cold War: NATO
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that ties between the alliance and Moscow were at their most difficult phase since the Cold War, blaming Russia for its role in the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: The Daily...
Moscow: US Has to Refrain From ‘Sanctions Diktat’ to Boost Ties With Russia
Russia said on Monday the United States has to abandon attempts of “sanctions diktat” and show the political will to improve relations with Russia to stop the aggravation of “political schizophrenia” that grips the Moscow-Washington ties. “The way out of this situation lies in the channel of manifestation of the political will to improve...
Putin Expels 755 US Diplomats in Response to New Sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 755 American diplomats to leave, in retaliation against latest sanctions by the US Congress. The Russian strongman said he was responding to “unlawful” behavior by Washington, just days after Congress voted almost unanimously to impose fresh sanctions on Moscow. “The American side has made a move which, it...
Putin Shows off Russia’s Naval Might with Major Parade
President Vladimir Putin on Sunday oversaw a pomp-filled display of Russia’s naval might as the Kremlin paraded its sea power from the Baltic Sea to the shores of Syria. Some 50 warships and submarines were on show along the Neva River and in the Gulf of Finland off the country’s second city of Saint Petersburg after Putin ordered the...
Romania blocks Russia minister plane to Moldova
Romania said Friday it had blocked a Moldova-bound plane carrying Russia’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin from entering its airspace because of an EU travel ban linked to sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The Daily...
New US Sanctions… Bring It On
Finian Cunningham So the American bully wants to slap more sanctions on Russia over alleged misdeeds. This is blatant temper tantrums by a frustrated US trying to get “its way or no way”. It’s so absurd. The biggest rogue nation on Earth, illegally bombing and killing civilians in several countries simultaneously, covertly arming terrorist...
Ukraine president strips one-time ally Saakashvili of citizenship
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stripped one-time ally Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship, the migration service said on Wednesday, spelling the likely end of the former Georgian president’s political aspirations in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Daily...
