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West-Russia relations tense as Russians prepare to vote
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin’s pre-election nuclear sabre-rattling has raised the stakes in Moscow’s confrontation with the West on the eve of his fourth Kremlin term. The 65-year-old former KGB officer is all but guaranteed to extend his rule until 2024 in a presidential election on March 18 that follows an anaemic campaign punctuated by...
Maybe ‘Jews’ but not Kremlin meddled in US election: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: AFPMOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin suggested in a US television interview that Ukrainians, Tatars or “Jews,” could have meddled in the 2016 US presidential election — but not the Kremlin.”Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do...
Ex-double agent?s mysterious illness: UK warns Russia
SALISBURY, England: Britain warned on Tuesday it would respond robustly if Russia was shown to be behind the mysterious illness that struck down a former Russian double agent convicted of betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence.Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson named Sergei Skripal, once a colonel in Russia’s GRU military...
Investigators search snow for clues to deadly Russian plane crash
Rescuers on Monday searched through deep snow for body parts and debris after a Russian passenger plane crashed near Moscow minutes after take-off, killing all 71 people on board, in the country’s deadliest air crash since 2016. The Antonov An-148 plane went down in a snow-covered field, making it difficult to access, with emergency workers...
Investigators search snow for clues to deadly Russian plane crash
STEPANOVSKOYE: Rescuers on Monday searched through deep snow for body parts and debris after a Russian passenger plane crashed near Moscow minutes after take-off, killing all 71 people on board, in the country’s deadliest air crash since 2016.The Antonov An-148 plane went down in a snow-covered field, making it difficult to access, with...
Estonia, Russia swap spies at border
TALLINN: Estonia and Russia swapped convicted spies on Saturday after the two men both received presidential pardons, Estonian authorities said.Estonian businessman Raivo Susi was exchanged for Russian national Artyom Zinchenko at the Koidula border post in southeast Estonia.”The Estonian state helps its citizens whenever it can,”...
Estonia, Russia swap spies at border
TALLINN: Estonia and Russia swapped convicted spies on Saturday after the two men both received presidential pardons, Estonian authorities said.Estonian businessman Raivo Susi was exchanged for Russian national Artyom Zinchenko at the Koidula border post in southeast Estonia.”The Estonian state helps its citizens whenever it can,”...
Ukraine hostages freed after police storm post office
Members of a police special operations unit gather outside a post office, where a man took people hostage, in Kharkiv, Ukraine December 30, 2017. REUTERSKHARKIV: Ukrainian police on Saturday freed the remaining hostages being held in a post office by an man believed to be strapped with explosives, and arrested the hostage taker after an...
Russia warns US decision to arm Ukraine encourages ‘new bloodshed’
MOSCOW: Moscow warned Saturday that Washington was encouraging “new bloodshed” in eastern Ukraine by its decision to provide the ex-Soviet nation with lethal weapons, while Kiev expressed the hope arms supplies could help contain Russia.The stern Moscow warning came after a new ceasefire deal between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels...
Russia warns US decision to arm Ukraine encourages ‘new bloodshed’
MOSCOW: Moscow warned Saturday that Washington was encouraging “new bloodshed” in eastern Ukraine by its decision to provide the ex-Soviet nation with lethal weapons, while Kiev expressed the hope arms supplies could help contain Russia.The stern Moscow warning came after a new ceasefire deal between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels...
