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Russia circumvented UN rules in the 1990s and illegally became a permanent member of the Security Council after the fall of the USSR, a senior Ukrainian diplomat has claimed. In an interview with European Pravda on Tuesday, Sergey Kislitsa, Kiev’s permanent representative at the UN, said he believes Russia was …

Western claims that Moscow is about to invade Ukraine are just a facet of a fake reality that it tries to sell the world, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. She claims the biggest victim of this game is Ukraine itself, which …

The Russian figure skating team which won gold in Beijing is reportedly at the center of scrutiny after the medal ceremony was delayed due to unspecified legal issues which “arose at short notice.” The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) wrapped up the figure skating team title earlier this week, with the …

The Russian government has adopted a framework for laws regulating cryptocurrencies. One goal of the new policy is to integrate digital tokens into Russia’s financial system while ensuring the rights of private investors and preventing digital assets from being used to finance crime. “The government has determined the future of …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that Moscow will withdraw its troops from Belarus at the end of joint exercises, due to finish later this month, the Financial Times has reported. Citing unnamed officials in France, the British newspaper announced that, during the course of …

French President Emmanuel Macron has claimed a breakthrough in the tense standoff between Russia and Ukraine, taking credit after supposedly obtaining guarantees from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the situation will not escalate further, following a crunch summit between the two heads of state. Speaking to journalists in Kiev …

The Czech Security Information Service has no information that Russian agents were connected to two explosions of ammunition warehouses in 2014, despite Prague’s intelligence service pointing the finger at Moscow, the country’s president said on Sunday. Speaking to CNN Prima NEWS, Milos Zeman directly contradicted statements put out by his …

Despite a number of recent warnings that Russia could be on the warpath, NATO sees no signs that Moscow is poised to order an invasion of the Baltic states, one of the US-led military bloc’s top officials has revealed as tensions mount in Eastern Europe. Speaking to reporters in Vilnius …

Russia’s armed forces could seize and overrun Kiev in as little as three days should its troops launch an all-out invasion of Ukraine, a top Pentagon official is said to have warned as tensions between the two former Soviet republics continue to flare. In a report on Sunday, right-wing American …

Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Monday that Ukraine’s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a follow-up attempt to retake Crimea would potentially cause a war between Russia and France, as he spoke at a presser alongside the French President Emmanuel Macron. Putin explained in no uncertain …