News outlets have speculated that the test was timed to coincide with US President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to South Korea North Korea fired several ballistic missiles on Wednesday morning, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) have reported. The short-range weapons were launched from the southern North Hwanghae Province…
The “pro-war political elite” is trying to derail the planned summit between the Russian and US leaders, Budapest has warned The Western media will continue to spread “fake news” aimed at derailing a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto…
A lot of work still needs to be done ahead of the meeting in Budapest, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said “serious preparations” are required for the planned summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Hungary, and that…
The Russian foreign minister has rebuked Warsaw for suggesting it would intercept Vladimir Putin’s plane en route to Hungary Poland appears willing to engage in acts of “terrorism” by indicating that it would intercept a plane carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. The top…
The security service has said the suspect shared air defense data with handlers in Kiev A Russian citizen suspected of gathering and transmitting military information to Ukrainian intelligence has been detained in Moscow, the Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Tuesday. According to the agency, the Russian national, said to…
Russian officials say Ukraine’s backers in the EU are attempting to sabotage the event with media “infodumps” Russian officials have rejected media reports suggesting that plans for a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump have been suspended, saying Ukraine’s European backers are attempting to sabotage the…
Vardan Ghukasyan, a vocal critic of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, has been charged with bribery An Armenian court has ordered the pre-trial detention of a prominent critic of pro-Western Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Vardan Ghukasyan, the mayor of Gyumri, who was elected in April from the Communist Party of Armenia,…
Trade replaces war on the CIS’s southern frontier On the Afghan–Uzbek border, the first thing you notice is the noise. Trains, trucks, and buses move in both directions almost without pause. For the first time in decades, the hum of trade has replaced the sound of gunfire. Meanwhile, the recent…
Once a socialist experiment, People’s Friendship University of Russia has turned into Moscow’s most successful instrument of soft power It’s an early summer morning on the Moscow campus of the People’s Friendship University of Russia. The air hums with dozens of languages – French, Hausa, Arabic, Mandarin – as new…
Recruiters are locked in a technological ‘arms race’ with desperate jobseekers — and secret instructions targeted at hiring robots are the latest trick, Io Dodds reports