A female suicide bomber has blown herself up nor far from a police station checkpoint in Grozny, the Chechen capital, Interior Ministry said on Saturday, November 17. https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1063806437778952193 Following the incident, police officers and civilians hadn’t sustained any injuries, the official added. “On the outskirts of Grozny an unknown young woman exploded herself,” acting head of the Chechen Interior…
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Lavrov “unpleasant surprise” of Austria spy scandal
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said it was an “unpleasant surprise” in absence of any request from Vienna for explanations over the affair of a retired Austrian army colonel who had allegedly spied for Moscow. “This was an unpleasant surprise to me. It has been a custom from time immemorial for any country that feels some…
Chechen lion cub needs home in Africa
Russian animal rights defenders hope to transfer little lion cub Simba (pictured) from Grozny (Chechnya) to Africa via one of the international wildlife charities. With open wounds, sick, exhausted and distraught the little patient was surrendered to one of Grozny veterinary clinics, where his owners explained that he could not bear life in cage and became self-destructive,…
EU against militarisation of Azov sea
During second October Plenary in Strasbourg following the debate with the EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini a group of MEPs proposed a Motion for the European parliament resolution against militarisation of the Azov sea. The document “condemns the Russian Federation for violating Ukraine’s sovereignty by means of the illegal construction of the Kerch bridge, the increased militarisation…
MEPs nominate Sentsov for Sakharov Prize
This week the European Parliament president Antonio Tajani and the leaders of the political groups during the Conference of Presidents meeting will select this year’s winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from among the three finalists. The prize will be awarded in a ceremony in Strasbourg on 12 December. The biggest political group…
Counter-terrorism unit investigates Crimea explosion
A powerful blast in a college in the Crimean city of Kerch (pictured), claimed lives of at least 10 young people and injured more than 50. Initially accidental gas leakage has been presumed as a cause of explosion, but shorty afterwards the investigators revealed an explosive device was used. https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1052511122027360256 Crimean emergency services and ambulances…
Hajiyev:”My wife is targeted in revenge”
This week scandal around the fortune of the UK resident Zamira Hajiyeva (55), who is wanted in Azerbaijan regarded as a beneficiary of her husband’s fraudulent banking operations, launches an anti-corruption campaign of the British government. While carrying out the first offensive on “unexplained” wealth” the UK specialized body the National Crime Agency led by Donald Toon has prepared eight other…
Ambassador concerned with OPCW anti-Russian swing
Endowment of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with attributive functions is directed against Russia, Permanent Representative to OPCW, Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands Alexander Shulgin. OPCW's attributive mechanism directed against Russia — diplomat https://t.co/EqhTBm7eDE © EPA-EFE/EVERT-JAN DANIELS pic.twitter.com/Ub9wHmgTgW — TASS (@tassagency_en) October 12, 2018 “This will be directed against Russia. Western…
Russia on brink of Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE) member states will have to make a decision reacting upon Russia’s refusal to resume payments to the organization’s budget, while there is a scenario that Moscow will be requested to leave the Council, Secretary General of the CoE Thorbjorn Jagland said. .@TJagland tells #CoE Assembly: "#Russia will not be back…
New wave of Russian diplomats expulsion
The Dutch government accused Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, of targeting the world’s chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, through a foiled cyber operation. The successful operation by the Dutch and UK intelligence services shows us once again that the Russian leadership is actively working to damage our international…
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