Russian Minister of Foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov reiterated Moscow demands of respect of his human rights and immediate liberation of journalist Kirill Vyshinky (pictured) arrested in Ukraine. FM #Lavrov: The trial against Kirill #Vyshinsky in #Ukraine is absurd. The journalist was arrested illegally, only because he worked for a Russian media outlet and honestly covered current…
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NATO-Russia “fundamentally different”
The NATO-Russia Council, which brings together all 29 NATO Allies and Russia, met in Brussels on Friday July 5 to discuss Ukraine, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), and transparency and risk reduction. This was the second meeting of the NATO-Russia Council this year. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who chaired the meeting, said: “Our…
PACE votes to restore Russian vote
Common sense has prevailed in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe where for the first time over the past five years the aggressive anti-Russian minority has failed to impose its viewpoint, Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev wrote on his Facebook page, commenting on a resolution enabling Russian legislators to return to PACE and take…
Russia-Georgia flights cancelled
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree, which imposes a temporary ban on passenger flights between Russia and Georgia from July 8, the Kremlin press service announced. (Image above: illustration). Putin temporarily suspends passenger air service with Georgia https://t.co/a6DSD0nugC pic.twitter.com/9wLXr2WTBr — TASS (@tassagency_en) June 21, 2019 “From July 8, 2019, Russian airlines are temporarily prohibited from…
EU prolongs sanctions against Russia
At the EU Summit in Brussels the leaders agreed to prolong economic sanctions against Russia until the end of January, the sanctions were imposed in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine against the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol. (Image above: Crimea bridge). The EU remains steadfast in its commitment to 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s sovereignty &…
Sweden joins Ice Age wolf research
A 40,000-year-old severed wolf’s head, preserved by permafrost intact with teeth and fur, has been discovered in eastern Siberia. Locals looking for mammoth ivory found the remains on the banks of the Indigirka River in Yakutia, before bringing it to the mammoth studies department at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha. Still snarling after 40,000…
Russia monitors NATO Baltops-2019
Russia’s Baltic Fleet is monitoring the joint exercises of NATO Baltops-2019, Russia’s National Defense Control Center (NDCC) informed press on June 15. Largest exercise in the #BalticSea🌊 – #BALTOPS 2019 kicks off! ✔️16 #NATO Allies 🇧🇪🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇳🇱🇳🇴🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸🇹🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸✔️2 partners 🇫🇮🇸🇪 ✔️8600 troops👥✔️50 ships & submarines 🚢✔️40 aircraft ✈️#WeAreNATO pic.twitter.com/QSzT8vlVb3 — PLinNATO (@PLinNATO) June 9, 2019 “In order…
Jagland raises concerns about journalist Golunov case
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, has made the following statement with regard to the situation of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov in Russia: My statement concerning Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov https://t.co/3bVqC9N2df — Thorbjørn Jagland (@TJagland) June 9, 2019 “I am very much concerned and saddened by reports…
Putin expects to turn page of Skipals incident
President Putin said he would like to see Prime Minister Theresa May’s successor respect of the interests of cooperation between the UK and Russia. (Image: Sergey Skripal’s daughter Yulia). Putin calls on London to turn the page in relations with Moscow:https://t.co/On8tPocDWg pic.twitter.com/leoFdslYFQ — TASS (@tassagency_en) June 6, 2019 Putin, talking to journalists on the margins of an…
Roskosmos official fled Russia
Roskosmos is shaken by a new scandal – one of the top managers of the Russian state corporation, Yuri Yaskin the general director of the Research Institute for Space Instrument Engineering (NII KP), which develops and manufactures radio equipment and electronics, resigned and fled Russia, leaving the enterprise amid audit. According to Russian media, Yaskin wrote…
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