Russia has detained an academic on suspicion of state treason for allegedly passing secrets to a NATO country, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.
Valery Golubkin, a professor who works at a Moscow institute studying aerodynamics, was (...)
Lebanese Prime Minister designate Saad al-Hariri intends to ask Russia for economic assistance during a visit to Moscow later this week, the RIA news agency cited his special representative as saying on Tuesday.
The request will be related to (...)
In a strong signal of Moscow's intention to play a greater role in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Cairo on Monday to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri.
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NATO and the West must act quickly to prevent an escalation of violence between Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday, saying further sanctions against Moscow and more military help to Kyiv could help.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reaffirmed that Egypt is one of the main partners to Russia in the Middle East and Africa.
Speaking to state-run Al-Ahram newspaper on Sunday, the top Russian diplomat reiterated that there are promising (...)
Egypt is one of the main partners to Russia in the Middle East and Africa, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed.
The top Russian diplomat reiterated that there are promising horizons for strategic cooperation between Cairo and Moscow, (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has not yet been able to speak to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine despite lodging a request to do so, Zelenskiy's spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have met to discuss cooperation projects and regional issues of mutual interest.
During the meeting, the two sides stressed the depth of relations between (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi sent a clear warning to Ethiopia on 30 March, stating that Egypt's right to the Nile water will not be compromised and that its share in its lifeline is a "red line". He added that tensions regarding this topic will (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have met to discuss cooperation projects and regional issues of mutual interest.
During the meeting, the two sides stressed the depth of relations between (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told TASS that Egypt hopes Russia takes a prompt decision to resume flights to Egyptian resorts ahead of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's visit to Cairo, which is scheduled for Monday 12 April.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for the "worrying" developments in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region to come to an end after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart in Istanbul, adding Turkey was ready to provide any necessary (...)
The Kremlin said Friday it fears the resumption of full-scale fighting in eastern Ukraine and could take steps to protect civilians there, a stark warning that comes amid a Russian troop buildup along the border.
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Russia has more troops on Ukraine's eastern border than at any time since 2014, when it annexed Crimea and backed separatist territory seizures, and the United States is concerned by growing "Russian aggressions," the White House said on (...)
The recent Suez Canal crisis uncovered a hidden facet of the economic interests of other countries, who raced to make gains at the expense of Egypt's predicament when the canal was blocked by the giant Japanese cargo ship the Ever Given for a (...)
The United States has asked Moscow to explain "provocations" on the border with Ukraine, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, amid reports of a large Russian military buildup.
State Department spokesman Ned Price told a news briefing that the (...)
The Kremlin said on Thursday that recent Russian troop and military hardware movements near Russia's borders with Ukraine were aimed at ensuring Moscow's own security and were not a threat to anyone.
Ukraine's commander-in-chief this week accused (...)
Russia's top diplomat said Thursday that the country's relations with the United States and its allies have ``hit the bottom'' and no date has been set for sending the Russian ambassador back to Washington.
Russia recalled its ambassador to the (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed possible cooperation on vaccines with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a joint video conference on Tuesday, Macron's office and the Kremlin said.
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Russia's ambassador to Egypt on Sunday offered the country "any possible assistance", as efforts continue to free a megaship that has been blocking the Suez Canal for nearly a week.
The MV Ever Given has been stuck diagonally across the span of the (...)
When Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a "killer" and said he would "pay a price", the international media emitted a collective gasp and a chorus of warnings of a return to the Cold War. US think tanks chimed in with memories of those distant days (...)
The Group of Seven major industrialized countries on Thursday issued a strong condemnation of what it called Russia's ongoing ``occupation'' of the Crimean Peninsula, seven years after Moscow annexed it from Ukraine.
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Russia hosted a peace conference for Afghanistan on Thursday, bringing together government representatives and their Taliban adversaries along with international observers in a bid to help jump-start the country's stalled peace process.
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Russia on Wednesday described US intelligence allegations that President Vladimir Putin had likely directed efforts to try to swing the 2020 US presidential election to Donald Trump as baseless.
A 15-page American intelligence report, released on (...)
Russia will block Twitter in one month if the social media giant fails to remove banned content, the TASS news agency cited a senior official at Russia's communications watchdog Roskomnadzor as saying on Tuesday.
Russia said last week it was slowing (...)
