The Russian Foreign Ministry announced personal sanctions against US citizens. Sean Penn and Ben Stiller hit the "stop list". In response to the ever-expanding US personal sanctions against Russian citizens, against Americans from among members of the US Congress, high-ranking…
On March 21, US Ambassador J. Sullivan, summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, was made a demarche and handed a note of protest in connection with the “recent unacceptable statements” of the head of the White House, J. Biden, addressed to Putin. On March 17, Biden called Putin a “bloody dictator” and “pure...
The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the decision of the Washington authorities to name a vacant lot in front of the embassy of our country, where a shelter for the homeless may appear, in honor of the killed opposition leader. The proposal to name the square in Washington after Boris Nemtsov is a manipulation used by American politicians to wage a political struggle. About…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the Reuters operator a “moron.” As Meduza writes, this happened in Hamburg. There, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry meets with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Judging by the video published by the Hromadske TV channel, Lavrov left the meeting room...
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched its own application “Foreign Assistant” for mobile phones. As reported on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, first of all it should help tourists traveling abroad. In particular, users will be able to obtain information about emergency incidents along the route, including…
Russian diplomats Grigory Lukyantsev, Vasily Nebenzya, Anatoly Viktorov and Yevgeny Zagainov used the same speech at the UN with minimal changes between 2008 and 2015. The fact that the diplomats pronounced practically the same text was discovered by blogger Yuri Shtengel, ...
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the publication of cartoons by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the crash of the A321 plane of the Russian company Kogalymavia in Egypt “blasphemy.” Employees of Charlie Hebdo, whose editorial office was attacked by extremists on January 14, published a cartoon depicting the wreckage of a plane and...
The Russian Foreign Ministry has defended the officials of the International Football Association (FIFA) accused of corruption, calling their detention "illegal application of American law." This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich. “Without going into the details of the charges brought forward, we draw your attention to the fact that ...