“Citizens of Crimea and Sevastopol” are voting for the first time in the Russian presidential election on the fourth anniversary of the Black Sea Peninsula “reunification” with Russia, reports TASS News Agency, creating a special category for the inhabitants of the disputed territory, underlining the status of Republic within Russian Federation. The turnout of Crimeans…
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Tusk prepares EU response to Skripals poisoning
European Council president Donald Tusk said he had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Theresa May in order to prepare at EU Summit next week a clear joint message over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. Phone call with PM @theresa_may to prepare clear message of the EU…
23 British diplomats “personae non gratae” in Russia
Twenty three (23) British diplomats have been declared personae non gratae and will be expelled within a week, Russia’s Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov said in a statement after the British Ambassador to Moscow Laurie Bristow was summoned. British ambassador to Moscow arrives at Russian foreign ministryhttps://t.co/djD077o6lz pic.twitter.com/Vg2H5FW57K — TASS (@tassagency_en) March 17, 2018 “Twenty three…
Russia to investigate Yulia Skripal’ and Nikolai Glushkov cases
Russian investigators made public they had opened a criminal investigation into the attempted murder of Yulia Skripal (RF citizen) and late Nikolai Glushkov murder and are ready to cooperate with the UK authorities. The Investigative Committee of Russia @sledcom_rf opens criminal cases over attempted murder of Yulia Skripal and murder of Nikolai Glushkov pic.twitter.com/a5nhK1qjB2 —…
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…
Moscow to mirror UK expel of 23 diplomats
Moscow will ‘definitely’ expel British diplomats in wake of UK’s reaction to Skripal case, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said. BREAKING: Moscow will ‘definitely’ expel British diplomats in wake of UK’s reaction to Skripal case – Lavrov https://t.co/MSgPq4fV2Z pic.twitter.com/gln1Bb1esb — RT (@RT_com) March 15, 2018 Previously Lavrov insisted on respect of international law,…
UK to expel 23 Russian diplomats
The UK will expel 23 Russian diplomats in response to a nerve toxin attack on a Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday, describing the attack as an unlawful use of force by Russia against the United Kingdom. BREAKING: Theresa May: UK will expel 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning, biggest…
Russian double agent poisoning in scope
President Vladimir Putin offered to present his explanations to the UK how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used in an offensive against a former Russian double agent who sold secrets to British intelligence. (Image: Sergei Skripal) Prime Minister Theresa May said it was “highly likely” Moscow is behind the after British officials…
Russians were “too naive”…
Dr Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann OPINION The philosopher Schopenhauer’s Three Stages of Truth: “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Declassified cables examined by academics from Georges Washington University (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early) proves that Western leaders gave multiple assurances to Soviet Union that NATO…
NATO perceives Kremlin arms show as “counterproductive”
President Vladimir Putin‘s warnings to NATO allies are “unacceptable”, they do not help efforts to resolve tensions, the Alliance made clear a day after the President Putin publicly demonstrated a new generation of nuclear weapons. #Russia’s threats to target #NATO allies are unacceptable and counterproductive. Read my statement in @Reuters via @rdfemmott: https://t.co/Qf46L2ZMSn — Oana…
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