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Montevideo, April 22nd 2025 - 15:50 UTC

Tag: Russia

  • Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

    World Cup advice for Argentine media: “How to stand a chance with a Russian girl”

    The AFA manual recommended that journalists “look clean, smell nice and dress well” in order to impress Russian “girls”.

    The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has been criticized for including a chapter about “how to stand a chance with a Russian girl” in a manual it handed to journalists travelling to the World Cup in Russia. It recommended that journalists “look clean, smell nice and dress well” in order to impress Russian “girls”.

  • Saturday, May 12th 2018 - 09:30 UTC

    Germany moves closer to Russia: Merkel will visit Putin in Moscow

    Putin and Merkel also discussed the situation in Syria as well as the chancellor's planned working visit to Russia next week, Moscow said.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken with Germany's Angela Merkel and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a bid to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive after the US decision to withdraw, the Kremlin said Friday.

  • Wednesday, May 9th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

    Despite Trump, Europe, Russia and China committed to the Iran nuclear deal

    UK, France and Germany say they “will work with all remaining parties” and urged the US not to obstruct its implementation of the Iran nuclear deal

    Western powers, Russia and China remain committed to the Iran nuclear deal - after the US announced it was withdrawing from the agreement. The UK, France and Germany say they “will work with all remaining parties” and urged the US not to obstruct its implementation and the other signatories to the 2015 deal - Russia and China - have also stressed their continuing support.

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:42 UTC

    Putin begins his fourth six-year term promising to multiply Russia's' strength and prosperity

    ”As head of state, I will do all I can to multiply the strength and prosperity of Russia,” Putin told a packed room of Russia’s political and culture elite

    Russian President Vladimir Putin was sworn in to a fourth term on Monday, extending his 18-year rule amid promises of continuity in foreign policy and renewed efforts toward building prosperity at home. During his swearing in ceremony at the gilded Andreyevsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Putin assured Russians that his rule had “revived pride” in the country.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:14 UTC

    US Navy resurrecting Second Fleet to patrol US coast and north Atlantic

    The fleet oversaw the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, rescued Americans in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury in October 1983

    With tensions between NATO and Russia rising, the U.S. military is resurrecting a fleet to patrol the Atlantic Ocean and help respond to global contingencies. The U.S. Second Fleet will provide forces along the U.S. coast and in the northern Atlantic Ocean, according to Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. John Richardson, who made the announcement Friday during a change of command ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia.

  • Monday, April 30th 2018 - 08:18 UTC

    Sunday Times claims massive Russian twitter support of Labour in last general election

    The Sunday Times said an investigation with Swansea University had identified 6,500 Russian accounts tweeting supportive messages for Labour

    Thousands of Russian Twitter accounts were used to rally support for Labour in the closing stages of last year’s general election, it has been claimed. The Sunday Times said an investigation it conducted in conjunction with Swansea University had identified 6,500 Russian accounts tweeting supportive messages for Labour and denigrating the Conservatives.

  • Friday, April 20th 2018 - 09:46 UTC

    Salisbury nerve gas incident: Uruguay rejects US suggestion to expel Russian diplomats

    “Uruguay is an independent country and determines its relations with the world itself,” Nin Novoa said, “it is an improper request”

    Washington’s request that other countries also expel Russian diplomats is improper, Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa said. “I did not take this request well, I said it was improper and it should not have been made,” the top diplomat said as cited by the El Pais newspaper.

  • Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 10:12 UTC

    G7 leaders: statement on chemical weapons use in Syria and Salisbury attack

    Use of chemical weapons is a breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention and constitutes a threat to international peace and security

    The G7 leaders have united in condemning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and support recent actions by the US, UK and France to degrade and deter further use. Likewise G7 foreign ministers condemned the nerve agent attack and share the UK's assessment that it is highly likely that the Russian Federation was responsible.

  • Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    UK and US alert about “malicious cyber activity” by Russia

    Officials said the move had been planned for “some time” and was not directly related to the US-led missiles strikes over the weekend on Russia’s ally Syria.

    Britain and the US have issued a formal alert about “malicious cyber activity” by Russia amid warnings that relations with Moscow have hit an all-time low. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) combined with the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security to issue an unprecedented joint “technical alert” setting out the threat across the public and private sectors.

  • Tuesday, April 17th 2018 - 08:01 UTC

    UK/Russia relations “worse than during the Cold War” because of Russiaphobia

    “I think it is worse, because during the Cold War there were channels of communication and there was no obsession with Russophobia”, Lavrov said

    Diplomatic tensions between the UK and Russia deepened amid claims that Moscow was blocking investigators from reaching the site of a chemical weapons attack in Syria. The UK said it was “essential” the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was granted “unfettered access” to Douma.