EU courting Armenia to ‘weaken Russia’ – iconic film director (VIDEO)

Two foreign flagged vessels heading to Russian ports were attacked in the Sea of Azov, Moscow has said Five Azerbaijani nationals have been killed and three injured in drone strikes on grain vessels in the Sea of Azov, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has said. The attacks were later confirmed to have…

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The Russian president has given his take on an “open letter,” in which the Ukrainian leader reiterated Kiev’s demands while calling for one-on-one talks Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he sees “no sense” in meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, responding to an open letter from the Ukrainian leader. The “author…

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The swap was carried out with UAE mediation, according to Moscow Russia and Ukraine have conducted a prisoner of war exchange involving nearly 200 servicemen from each side, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has announced. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said, “185 Russian servicemen were returned from territory…

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Finance has become a tool of external pressure, and Moscow should reduce reliance on foreign systems, Vladimir Chistyukhin has said Western sanctions must be “ignored,” the first deputy governor of the Bank of Russia, Vladimir Chistyukhin, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday. He added that Russia…

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Admitting Kiev would wreck the economic bloc and its officials understand this, the Russian foreign minister has told RT The EU is fully aware that Ukrainian accession would be disastrous for the bloc, and would sooner see the country join NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told RT. The…

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The US president could have ended the Ukraine conflict by following through on his own proposals, the Russian foreign minister has told RT America’s position on the Ukraine conflict has become almost indistinguishable from that of the EU, making US President Donald Trump’s stated ambition to mediate an end to…

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Berlin has only itself to blame for failing to get a seat on the Security Council, experts and journalists have said Losing what had been a quasi-guaranteed seat on the UN Security Council has caused considerable embarrassment across the German diplomatic establishment, which had openly talked of securing a permanent…

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