Tag: Russia

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  EU extends economic sanctions against Russia over Ukraine until February 2020

  

  European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prolong economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine until the end of January 2020, a spokesman for the bloc said. The EU first slapped sanctions on Russia after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 and supported rebels fighting Kiev troops in the east of the country. That conflict, which killed 13,000 people, is still simmering.

• Saturday, June 8th 2019 - 07:42 UTC

  Putin and Xi call for a rethinking of the US dollar role in global trade

  

  China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin hit back at US global economic dominance on Friday as they took the stage together at Russia's showcase business forum.

• Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Huawei rejected by the West signs a deal with Russia's telecoms

  

  China's Huawei, considered a security threat in the United States, on Wednesday signed a deal with Russian telecoms company MTS to develop a 5G network in the country over the next year, The agreement was signed on the sidelines of a meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

• Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 08:00 UTC

  First tourist Arctic train leaves from Russia for Norway

  

  The first tourist train traveling through Russia's Arctic region carrying passengers heading for Norway set off from Saint Petersburg station on Wednesday with 91 passengers aboard for the inaugural trial journey.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  “Russia, Russia, investigation...” triggers furious reactions from Trump

  

  President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that Moscow helped him win the White House in 2016 - before retracting himself to launch a fiery attack on Robert Mueller and the Russia probe.

• Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Russian plane crash-land in Moscow airport kills 41, and 37 survive

  

  Forty-one people died on Sunday in the Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane crash at Sheremetyevo Airport, Yelena Markovskaya, spokesperson for the Moscow interregional transport investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee, told reporters.

• Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Arctic countries meet in Finland, but not all participants are happy with China's presence

  

  Top diplomats from the United States, Russia and other nations which border the Arctic meet in Finland on Monday to discuss policies governing the polar region, as tensions grow over how to deal with global warming and access to mineral wealth.

• Saturday, May 4th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Trump and Putin discuss Guaidó/Maduro situation: “both leaders stand with the Venezuelan people”

  

  US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed the crisis in oil-rich Venezuela, where Washington has thrown its weight behind a campaign to oust the Moscow-backed socialist president.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 13:47 UTC

  Venezuela will be a central issue of the Lavrov and Pompeo meeting

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Arctic Council meeting, which begins Monday in the city of Rovaniemi. The tension in Venezuela will mark the meeting where

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  A defiant Maduro appears with the military at an army base in Caracas and calls to defeat coup plotters

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appeared on Thursday flanked by soldiers at an army base in Caracas, in a show of defiance towards his opponents. Maduro called on the armed forces to defeat “any coup plotter”, following two days of clashes between opposition and pro-government forces.