The Embassy of Spain in Moscow has being evacuated after an anonymous bomb alert by telephone call. The staff has immediately evacuated, and officers with sniffer dogs arrived to search the building, according to Russian TASS news agency. Embassy of Spain evacuated in Moscow due to bomb scare https://t.co/X8rwQcGAst© Artiom Geodakyan/TASS pic.twitter.com/J8KBB1c085 — TASS (@tassagency_en)…
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A moose saved from lake in Moscow
Moscow rescuers have saved a moose from drowning in a lake to the east of the capital, the emergencies department said. #Moscow rescuers save moose from drowning in lakehttps://t.co/HyxDmvHIrt pic.twitter.com/usqDGEWotQ — TASS (@tassagency_en) September 15, 2017 It took the rescuers some 1.5 hours to drag the animal out of the lake located on the territory…
A released Russian activist escapes in Prague
A Russian activist Ivan Nepomnyashchy (Nepomnyashchikh), convicted for 2.5 years in framework of ‘Bolotnaya’ trials and released from the colony in late August, left Russia, according to Russian media. On September 7 Ivan flew to Prague, and later plans to move to the USA to study. https://twitter.com/GraniTweet/status/905892667967631361 An engineer and activist, Ivan (33), is one of…
Moscow protests against FBI searches in its US missions
The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned a US envoy in Moscow to protest against Washington’s plans to conduct searches in Russia’s trade mission in Washington. Take a look at the video of @consulrussiaSF under rummage by the FBI https://t.co/tTT4LbepkV pic.twitter.com/FSAPvZr7FL — MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) September 2, 2017 According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Anthony…
Trump dabbs anti-Russian measures ‘significantly flawed’
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new sanctions law against Russia that Congress had approved overwhelmingly last week, criticizing the legislation as having “clearly unconstitutional” elements. After signing a bill that runs counter to his desire to improve relations with Moscow, and which also affects Iran and North Korea, the Republican president laid out a…
Putin confirms symmetric reduction of the US diplomatic missions
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the reduction of the staff at US diplomatic missions in Russia in symmetric response to steps of the previous US administration, which took place at new year’s eve last year. Russian state media quoted Putin saying 755 out of “a thousand or so” employees will “have to stop their…
Moscow to Washington – ‘quid pro quo’
Kremlin has been actively preparing a response to the highly probable sanctions from the US awaited by the end of this week. According to Kommersant newspaper sources, the Foreign Ministry suggested the Russian authorities seizure of the summer residence of the American Embassy in woodland ‘Serebryany Bor’ (‘Silver forest’), situated on artificial island of Moskwa…
Russian diplomat to lead UN Counter-terrorism office
United Nations head Antonio Guterres has chosen to appoint a Moscow envoy in Vienna Vladimir Voronkov to head a newly created U.N. Office of Counterterrorism, giving a Russian a top job at U.N. headquarters in New York. Russia’s Ambassador to International Organisations in Vienna, Vladimir Voronkov, will have the rank of undersecretary-general. He’s spent more…
Anti-corruption protestors jailed in Russia
A Russian court has sentenced opposition leader, and anti-corruption fighter Aleksei Navalny (pictured) to 30 days in jail for staging unsanctioned rallies at which an estimated 1 500 anticorruption protesters were detained. The judge at the Simonovsky district court ruled early on June 13 that Navalny, who was detained outside his home in an outlying…
Putin to hold Direct Line on 15th of June
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a traditional session of answering questions of Russians live on June 15, according to the announcement of the Kremlin press service. The announcement also appeared on site of Russian Government (below). #Путин 15 июня в 12.00 состоится программа «Прямая линия с Владимиром Путиным» https://t.co/IsOl8huxow — PravitelstvoRu (@PravitelstvoRu) June 4,…
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