Image by Dmitry Rozhkov Kremlin media critic Yulia Latynina has left Russia and will not be returning for the foreseeable future. She declared to independent Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy on September 9 during a Skype call that she was abroad with her parents. Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty reported…
Image by ДИП МИД РФ (фотограф Эдуард Песов) The closure and searches of the Russian consulate in San Francisco, and the Russian trade mission in Washington, D.C., continues to send the Russian Foreign Ministry into hyperventilation. Moscow has characterized the incidents as a violation of the Vienna diplomatic agreements and…
Video: Anti-Corruption Activist Navalny Attacked With Sausages At Moscow Airport.
Russia will sue for the protection of Russian diplomatic property in U.S. courts after the Trump administration closed the Russian consulate in San Francisco and seized the Russian trade mission in Washington, D.C. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson about the decision over the…
Image by Скампецкий Russian security services, the FSB, arrested two suspects living in Moscow who were from Central Asia; they were planning attacks on populated areas in the Russian capital. The Islamic State members were planning a suicide bomb as well as knife attacks. Bomb-making materials were uncovered. “He confessed…
Image by ДИП МИД РФ (фотограф Эдуард Песов) After Russia forced almost 800 diplomatic personnel to leave Russia in response to the sanctions that the Obama administration placed on Russia for ‘meddling’ in the 2016 U.S. election, the Trump administration drastically cut visa services to Russian citizens until staffing levels…
Image by Департамент транспорта Москвы The Russian economy has been battered over the last several years, mainly due to the imposition of Western economic sanctions due to Russian behavior in Ukraine, and the collapse of oil prices on international markets. However, 2017 saw Russia begin to grow again as sanctions…
Russia’s New US Ambassador Meets American Envoy In Moscow.
Belarus Opposition Figure Arrested, Sentenced To 15 Days In Jail.
Following U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis commenting on America providing lethal weapons to Ukraine, US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker said that U.S. and Russian relations may be ‘crippled’ by the conflict. “We’ll Have To Give Up Crimea To Release Donbass” – Savchenko Causing Controversy Again “The…