Tag: Russia

Spanish Embassy in Moscow evacuated in false bomb alert

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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Russia blames US “hypocrisy” for Gen.Asapov death in Syria

The death of Russian General Valery Asapov in Syria, who was killed in a mortar shelling attack unleashed by terrorists, comes as a direct result of Washington’s two-faced policy in Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters on Monday. “The tragedy that we witnessed, the death of a Russian commander, is the price…

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Serbia-NATO: cautious cooperation

Aleksandar Mitic, OPINION Serbia’s Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin is meeting in Brussels with the NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller to discuss further cooperation within the Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme but his intention will certainly be to cement Belgrade’s commitment to military neutrality which excludes NATO membership. Serbia is implementing the Individual Partnership Action…

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Russia committed to nuclear deal with Iran

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaffirmed Russia’s commitment to maintaining the sustainability of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program, widely knows as ‘Iranian nuclear agreement’. The meeting of the Six (Russia, the UK, China, the US, France and Germany) and Iran was held on Wednesday, September, 20,  on the…

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Lavrov considers Trump’s UN speech “interesting”

Russia is “extremely concerned” by U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments questioning the Iran nuclear deal and suspects that Washington itself may have violated a landmark arms control treaty, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov leading Russian delegation at UN General Assembly said. #Lavrov and High Rep of the #EU #Mogherini discussed the main issues of the 🇷🇺🇪🇺relations,…

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Russians don’t see ‘logic’ of US proposal in Donbass

Speaker of the Russian parliament’s upper house Valentina Matviyenko says she does not see ‘logic’ in the suggestion of the US Department of State to locate the UN peacekeepers at the border between Russia and Ukraine. Миротворцы нужны, чтобы обеспечить безопасность ОБСЕ, считает Матвиенко. https://t.co/lkVFN17qNn — Сегодня (@segodnya_online) September 17, 2017 “I cannot see any logic…

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Russian peacekeeping proposal for Donbass in stalemate

The separatists of the of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic reject the idea of ​​deploying UN peacekeepers on the border with Russia, as stated in an interview with RT TV channel by Denis Pushilin, the entity envoy to Moscow. US wants ‘broad mandate’ for #UN peacekeeping mission in #Ukraine https://t.co/upDzIrbqrz — RT America (@RT_America) September 14,…

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EU prolongs anti-Russian measures

On 14 September 2017, the Council prolonged the restrictive measures over actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine for a further six months, until 15 March 2018. The measures consist of asset freezes and travel bans. (Image: Crimea, demonstration in support of referendum). EU prolongs #sanctions over actions against #Ukraine's territorial integrity until…

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Zapad-2017 Russian military drills

he Zapad-2017 (or West 2017) joint Russian-Belarusian military drills have kicked off in the two countries, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. “Heads of military administrative bodies and commanders of units involved in the drills have received instructions from the General Staff of the Union State concerning their training tasks,” the statement reads….

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