The US Treasury has introduced some sanctions relief aimed at making life easier for ordinary citizens of the Crimean region of Ukraine. The nature of the changes in the regime of restrictive measures is said in a statement issued by the department on Friday, January 30. Let us remind you that in March last year at the session of the General ...

The possible withdrawal of Russia from the Council of Europe means that our country will have no legal obstacles to the return of such a measure of punishment as the death penalty. This prospect was outlined by one of the members of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Recall that after ...

They are demanding an explanation from the diplomat in connection with the flight of two Russian Tu-95 bombers over the English Channel. The British ministry says the flight of Russian planes disrupted civilian air traffic in the area. According to The Daily Telegraph, British Air Force planes were raised on Wednesday ...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday, January 28, decided to extend the sanctions against the delegation of the Russian Federation and deprive it of the right to vote and participate in the governing bodies of the Assembly until April 2015. TASS reports. The corresponding amendment was adopted by ...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has approved a new resolution on Ukraine, which harshly criticizes Russia. In particular, PACE accused the Russians of annexing Crimea and financing pro-Russian militants operating in the Donbass, and called for the release of the prisoners of war. It is reported by "Evropeyskaya Pravda". For this resolution ...

  Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his intention to increase the trade in Russian arms in the promising markets of the world, namely in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This was reported by the TASS agency. According to Putin, the Russian Federation wants to take advantage of the fact that “new challenges and ...

Barack Obama has accused Russia of renewed military clashes between separatists and government forces that engulfed eastern Ukraine. “We are deeply concerned about the latest ceasefire violations and the aggression that the separatists have carried out - with Russian support, with Russian equipment, with Russian funding, with Russian training ...

Following the downgrade of Russia's sovereign credit rating, Moody's has downgraded the ratings of a number of Russian regions, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, by one notch. The rating action is related to the deterioration of the country's credit rating, according to the agency's website. In total, Moody`s ...

For two days - January 15-16 - the international forum of intellectuals Rusijos Reality Check was held in Lithuania, the participants of which discussed the situation in Russia. The forum was organized by the Center for Eastern European Studies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. On January 15, the event participants were...

The timing of the start of work of the "Turkish Stream" will slightly differ from those in which it was planned to launch the "South Stream". Sergey Kupriyanov, the official representative of Gazprom, said this in an interview with Kommersant FM. “As soon as we agree on an exit point on the Turkish coast, work will proceed quickly”, ...