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MEPs against Russia ‘strategic partner’ status

At Strasbourg Plenary (13.03.2019) Members of the European Parliament agreed that the EU should remain open to imposing further sanctions if Russia continues to violate international law. Parliament adopted a resolution by 402 votes to 163, with 89 abstentions, assessing the current state of EU-Russia political relations. “The time for nice and diplomatic language is…

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Putin receives Bolton in Kremlin

Preparations for a potential Russian-US summit is among the issues brought up by US National Security Adviser John Bolton at his current meetings in Moscow, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed. Kremlin intends to hash over Russia-US ties, global issues with Trump adviserhttps://t.co/qMHX8HvTwC© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS pic.twitter.com/01CHgHQHeA — TASS (@tassagency_en) June 27, 2018 “While in…

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EU calls for transparent investigation of Babchenko assassination

“The European Union expresses its sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of journalist Arkady Babchenko, who was killed at his home in Kyiv on 29 May”- the External Action Service reacted in a statement of a spokesperson. EU expresses its sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Arkady Babchenko. Each time…

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Putin IV inauguration reduced opulence

The Kremlin press secretary, Dmitry Peskov informed that the inauguration ceremony is planned to begin at noon Moscow time in the Grand Kremlin Palace, where Vladimir Putin will arrive from his office in building 1 located on the same Kremlin territory, according to TASS news agency. Putin will begin his next stint as leader two days after…

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Putin leads with 73% of votes

According to partial results made public by the electoral commission the incumbent President Vladimir Putin is leading with 73% of votes: First-time Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin is running second with 15 percent, while veteran nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who first ran against Boris Yeltsin in 1991, rounds out the top three with about seven percent….

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Russian diplomats to leave UK on 20th of March

Russian ambassador to UK confirms expelled diplomats will leave on March 20, 2018. Kremlin spox Peskov: shocking and unforgivable violation of diplomatic norms pic.twitter.com/wsma8udJmf — Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) March 16, 2018 The UK this accused Russian government of a chemical-weapons with attack on British soil targeting Sergei Skripal, a former double agent. Any evidence…

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Lavrov expects samples of poison from UK

Moscow will not respond to the UK request about a clandestine USSR chemical weapon allegedly ‘Novichok’ used in an ex-double agent’s poisoning until a sample of the element is provided, the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said. BREAKING: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia is demanding access to samples of the nerve agent that poisoned…

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Moscow considers U.S. anti-Russian sanctions “unlawful”

Moscow considers sanctions against Russia over the situation in Ukraine unlawful, Russia’s RIA news agency reports, referring to the Kremlin spokesman. The measures extended for one year were announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, in a letter dated March 2 and published on the White House website, in which he underlining that the sanctions against Russia…

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Russia labels American outlets as ‘foreign agents’

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on  new measures allowing authorities to list media outlets as “foreign agents” in response to what Kremlin says is unacceptable Washington pressure on Russian media abroad. Putin signs plan to force US media outlets to register as "foreign agents" https://t.co/QQ80hz4s3B pic.twitter.com/cXo2r7e7cr — The Hill (@thehill) November 25, 2017…

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