“The agreement is basically broadly holding, quite well. In all agreements there is a period of adjustment, we are watching very carefully, but we can say we believe it has fairly good chances of working out” – said U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura told a news conference on Syria. Syria's bitter six-year conflict has cost…
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Trump-Putin for ceasefire in Syria
The US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for over two hours in the afternoon, discussing a range of international issue, and ending with an agreement on curbing violence in Syria, according to the US diplomatic sources. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters after the session the ceasefire was a “defined…
Russia considers control of Syria's borders
Russia might deploy its military to control the borders of planned de-escalation zones in Syria within two to three weeks after finalizing an agreement with Turkey and Iran, Russian negotiator Alexander Lavrentyev said. ASTANA (Reuters) – Russia may deploy its military to police the borders of planned de-escalation zones in Syria … https://t.co/TnV2wPO4Im — Thus…
Dead dolphins at Russian Black sea resort
In Anapa, Russia, on the beach in the area of ‘40 year of Victory,’ street tourists discovered several corpses of dolphins. According to local residents dead animals have been on the beach for a few days. This week after numerous complaints, local authorities announced that the corpses of dolphins were removed from the beach. According…
Scaramucci accepts CNN apology on Russian connections
CNN retracted a story on that connected Antony Scaramucci, a prominent ally of President Trump, to a Russian investment fund managed by a Kremlin-controlled bank. The brief encounter on public between American and Russian happened on the margins at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “On June 22, 2017, CNN.com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci…
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…
Lavrov: NATO ambitions “never changed”
NATO’s plans have never changed and have always been aimed at acquiring free geopolitical space, including in Eastern Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Belarusian mass media on occasion of the 25th anniversary of establishing diplomatic ties, Russian ITAR-TASS agency reports. “We have repeatedly realized that all these preparations, which…
Senate votes to keep anti-Russian sanctions
The Senate is expected to pass the Iran and Russia sanctions bill as soon as this week. Absent an agreement, the Senate will take another procedural vote on the legislation on Thursday morning. Senators voted 97-2 to assemble the deal with an Iran sanctions bill currently being debated on the Senate floor. Republican Sens. Rand Paul and…
EU reminds Russia about international commitments
“The detention of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators and violence used against them by the Russian authorities in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other cities across the country today threatens the fundamental freedoms of expression, association and assembly in the Russian Federation. These fundamental rights are enshrined in the Russian constitution and we expect them to be…
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…
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