Tag: Dmitry Peskov

• Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:50 UTC

  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni dies in prison

  

  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni died suddenly today in the Arctic prison where he has been held since last December, Russia's prison services said.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Envoys keep talking, Russia keeps invading Ukraine

  

  The third round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian envoys ended Monday with nothing much to account for after nearly three hours at Belovezhskaya Pushcha on the Belarus-Poland border.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 21:24 UTC

  Moscow leaves only essential workers at Kiev embassy

  

  The Russian government of President Vladimir Putin Thursday asked all non-essential staff at the embassy in Kiev to leave Ukraine as joint military drills with Belarus started near the border.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 10:05 UTC

  Kremlin officials can't understand why official stats show Russians are so poor

  

  The Kremlin press secretary has said he cannot understand a survey that shows that Russians struggle to afford new shoes. Dmitry Peskov was commenting on a report by state statistics agency Rosstat.

• Wednesday, January 30th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Russia and China criticize US sanctions on Venezuela: “they undermine confidence in the international financial system”

  

  Russia and China strongly criticized U.S. sanctions placed on Venezuela, with the former pledging to support the beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday the sanctions completely undermined confidence in an international financial system that is dominated by the U.S., Russian news agency Interfax reported.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 10:15 UTC

  Russia, China and Turkey in support for Maduro as they warn Washington not to intervene

  

  Russia on Thursday accused the United States of trying to usurp power in Venezuela and warned against a military intervention by confronting Washington and the European Union, which backed protests against one of Moscow's closest allies, Venezuelan partial recognized President Nicolás Maduro.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 17:53 UTC

  No talks with Putin at G-20 over Crimea tensions, says Trump enroute to Argentina

  

  US President Donald Trump Thursday shocked the world as he announced he would not be meeting one-on-one with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin during the G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires due to the escalating military crisis in Crimea.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:28 UTC

  Western leaders abhor nerve-agent attack and point to Russia: “no plausible alternative explanation”

  

  The leaders of France, Germany, the US and UK say there is “no plausible alternative explanation” to Russia having been behind the nerve agent attack in the UK. They condemned the “first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War”, calling it an assault on UK sovereignty.

• Friday, April 24th 2015 - 08:08 UTC

  EU regulators Russia's Gazprom of abusing dominant position; fine could reach 16bn

  

  Russia’s biggest gas utility, Gazprom, was hit with an antitrust case by European Union regulators for “abusing” its dominant position and overcharging customers for gas supplies. The investigation against the Gazprom has been ongoing for two years.