US President Joe Biden is set to convene a meeting with the National Security Council to discuss the “situation in Ukraine” on Sunday, after he claimed that “significant intelligence” indicated Russia would invade Ukraine “in the coming days.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced on Saturday that Biden would convene the …
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Russia’s chance for a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rests on the promise that Moscow will not launch an invasion of Ukraine, Washington has revealed. Speaking to TASS on Friday, State Department Press Secretary Ned Price revealed that Blinken had accepted the date proposed by Moscow and …
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Ukraine has requested a meeting of the Vienna Document participating states, the country’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said late on Sunday, accusing Moscow of failing to respond to Kiev’s inquiry over its military activities. “Russia failed to respond to our request under the Vienna Document. Consequently, we take the next …
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The Kremlin confirmed on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron sat alone at opposite ends of an unusually long table during their talks this week because Macron refused to take a Covid-19 test in Moscow. “Some leaders follow their own rules and don’t interact …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French colleague Emmanuel Macron met in Moscow on Monday, holding talks about the crisis in Ukraine, European security, and bilateral issues that lasted nearly six hours. They held a joint press conference afterward revealing some of the meeting’s results. The meeting comes amid soaring …
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday, before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, the Kremlin has announced. Asked by a reporter, on Wednesday, if the crucial summit will place before or after the ceremony, spokesman Dmitry …
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A pornographic clip featuring characters from the ‘Final Fantasy’ video game series interrupted a meeting of Italian senators A virtual gathering attended by Italian lawmakers and academics – including a Nobel Prize winner – was briefly interrupted after a troll streamed a pornographic video, one with senator saying she will …
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Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has described Sunday’s preliminary talks with Washington on security guarantees as “stunning” but also noted that the “conversation was difficult.” Ryabkov has held a two-hour meeting with his American counterpart, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, in Geneva, ahead of Monday’s larger US-Russia engagement. …
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The NATO-Russia Council is set to meet on January 12, the alliance’s press service has told news agency TASS. It will take place two days after talks between Moscow and Washington begin in Geneva. Russia suspended cooperation with NATO last October, after the organization expelled eight of Moscow’s diplomats from …
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The US-led bloc’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has decided to convene a meeting on January 12 and has been in contact with Moscow, Deutsche Presse-Agentur revealed on Saturday, quoting an unnamed official. It’s not yet known if Moscow has agreed to the proposal, but Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia’s …
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