Tag: Russia

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  Pompeo confident the West is winning and will prevail over Russian and Chinese “empire desires”

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended on Saturday his nation's global role despite misgivings in Europe, vowing that Western values would prevail over Russian and Chinese desires for “empire”.

• Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Putin denies gay marriage, “as long as I am president, there will be dad and mum”

  

  President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would not legalize gay marriage as long as he was in the Kremlin. He made clear he would not allow the traditional notion of mother and father to be subverted by what he called “parent number 1” and “parent number 2”.

• Tuesday, February 11th 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Trump plans to slash foreign aid and invest funds to counter threats from China and Russia

  

  President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia, senior administration officials revealed.

• Saturday, February 8th 2020 - 11:30 UTC

  Lavrov denounces US foreign policy towards Venezuela in Mexico and puts hosts in an awkward position

  

  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday denounced U.S. foreign policy in Venezuela, criticizing U.S. “provocations” and attempts to create what he called a pretext for military intervention.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 07:02 UTC

  Russian foreign minister in a “support visit” to Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela

  

  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Venezuela on Friday in a show of support for President Nicolas Maduro, a socialist who Washington wants out of power. Russia has helped Maduro weather a political crisis as the United States has targeted Caracas with sanctions and, like dozens of other countries, recognizes opposition

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Maduro prepared to hand over the oil industry to foreign private companies

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is considering selling shares of the country's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, in an attempt to recover the country's petroleum industry and its dwindling production.

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Something smells rotten in Maputo: Russian bank suing Mozambique over US$ 2bn in loans

  

  Russian bank VTB is suing a Mozambique state-owned company over US$ 535 million it extended as part a series of loans now at the centre of a US$ 2 billion debt scandal. An online court filing dated Dec. 23 shows VTB has lodged a lawsuit in Britain’s High court against the Mozambique state and Mozambique Asset Management, which borrowed the money from VTB as part of a costly project that U.S. authorities say was an elaborate front for a bribery and kickback scheme.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Russia and China collude at UN to create convention on cybercrime, alarming the West

  

  The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom. The General Assembly approved the resolution sponsored by Russia and backed by China, which would set up a committee of international experts in 2020.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  Putin thanks Trump for helping to foil terrorist attack in St Petersburg

  

  Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Sunday thanked US counterpart Donald Trump for intelligence that helped to foil attacks on Russian soil, the Kremlin said. Putin thanked Trump “for the transfer, through special services, of information allowing the prevention of terrorist acts in Russia”, the president's office said in a statement.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Russia the kingpin of the global gas sector; Putin launches “Power of Siberia” with China's Xi

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping launched this Monday a gas pipeline that is the first of three ambitious projects intended to cement Moscow's role as top gas exporter.