A senior Russian official has publicly expressed his annoyance after the second round of negotiations between political advisers of the Normandy Four nations (Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany) concluded without any significant progress on Thursday night. Speaking at a late-night press conference, Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak admitted …
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has expressed frustration at the lack of progress made during high-stakes negotiations with his British counterpart, Liz Truss, as tensions between Moscow and the West continue to flare over Ukraine. Speaking to journalists at a press conference following the talks in the Russian capital on …
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Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff was escorted away from a Washington, DC high school after a bomb threat, before a full evacuation of all students and staff was announced Emhoff’s communications director Katie Peters confirmed the second gentleman was unharmed after the “security threat,” which took place as he visited DC’s …
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Moscow is ready to offer political asylum to Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko and others who face political persecution by Kiev, Vladimir Putin said in a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday. The Russian president noted that he’d first floated an offer of asylum to …
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Moscow is ready to offer political asylum to Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko and others who face political persecution in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday. Putin noted that he’d first floated an offer of asylum to …
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A new fear-mongering report regarding the alleged looming Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine was published by the New York Times late on Friday. The newspaper said it spoke to a “senior Ukrainian military official” who shared details of a highly sensitive assessment compiled by the country’s military. According to the official, …
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed that he had been infected with Covid-19 on Saturday afternoon. “Thank God, I have a mild illness, which I learned is an Omicron variant. I’m on duty. I will continue to work from home,” Erdogan announced on Twitter. The president visited Kiev on Thursday, where …
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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been slammed by Russia’s Foreign Ministry after a geography error confusing two different bodies of water in Europe, over 1,000km away from each other. In an interview with the BBC, Truss explained that London is “supplying and offering additional support into our Baltic allies …
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The Russian office of the German state broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), is to be closed as part of the “first round” of a response to Berlin’s “unfriendly actions” against RT DE, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. The German outlet will also be barred from broadcasting in Russia …
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The editors of Russian news outlet Echo of Moscow have requested that President Vladimir Putin step in after the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called for prominent liberal reporters and outlets to be prosecuted for “aiding terrorism.” Alexey Venediktov, the radio station’s editor-in-chief, wrote on Telegram on Wednesday, “in connection …
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