Tag: Russia

• Monday, July 31st 2017 - 08:18 UTC

  Putin reacts to sanctions and expels 755 US diplomats from Moscow

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview that the U.S. must cut the size of its diplomatic force in his country by more than half, from about 1,210 to 455. Putin said on Sunday that the cut will make the size of the U.S. diplomatic mission in his country equal to that of Russia's diplomatic corps in the U.S.

• Thursday, July 13th 2017 - 01:09 UTC

  Donald Trump Jr admits meeting Russian lawyer but did not inform his father

  

  United States President Donald Trump's son has said he did not tell his father about a meeting with a Russian lawyer who said she could help his election campaign. Donald Trump Jr told Fox News the meeting was “just a nothing” but he should have handled it differently.

• Saturday, July 8th 2017 - 07:44 UTC

  Trump and Putin hold “robust” two-and-a-quarter hours discussions and shake hands

  

  Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed on Friday the alleged Russian hacking of last year's US presidential election during their first meeting. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described the exchanges as “robust”, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Mr Trump had accepted Putin's assertions that his country was not responsible.

• Thursday, July 6th 2017 - 03:54 UTC

  All eyes to be focused on gestures from the first face-to-face Trump-Putin meeting

  

  The first face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg. The Kremlin says terrorism; Syria and Ukraine will top its agenda.

• Sunday, June 18th 2017 - 02:34 UTC

  Brazilian President Temer to tour Russia, Norway this week

  

  President Michel Temer of Brazil is to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during his Moscow stop this coming week. Among the items to be discussed is the purchase of air defense missile systems. There will also be talks with Russian investors to discuss energy matters.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2017 - 08:05 UTC

  Majority of US citizens want an “independent investigation” into Trump-Russia links, shows Reuters/Ipsos poll

  

  A majority of US citizens including a growing number of Republicans, want to see an “independent investigation” sort out any connections between Russia and President Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.

• Thursday, April 20th 2017 - 23:21 UTC

  Russian shipping conglomerate suing Venezuela's oil giant PDVSA for unpaid fees

  

  Venezuela's state-run oil company, PDVSA, sent a tanker in October to the Caribbean with the expectation that its cargo of crude would fetch about US$20 million - money the crisis-stricken nation desperately needs. Instead, the owner of the tanker, the Russian state-owned shipping conglomerate Sovcomflot, held the oil in hopes of collecting partial payment on US$30 million that it says PDVSA owes for unpaid shipping fees.

• Saturday, April 15th 2017 - 09:27 UTC

  Russia, Syria and Iran warn the US against launching new strikes

  

  Russia, Syria and Iran have warned the United States against launching new strikes on Syria and called for an international investigation into the chemical weapons attack in Syria.

• Friday, April 14th 2017 - 17:45 UTC

  Putin also has his “Father of all bombs”, allegedly four times more powerful than MOAB

  

  The display of force by the US military with the MOAB type of ordnance has been impressive but such type of weapon is not exclusive of the US arsenal: Russia has a device four times more powerful than the US' monster bomb. The Russian version, called the Father Of All Bombs, weighs just 15,560lbs and is packed with the equivalent to 44 tons of explosive TNT.

• Monday, April 10th 2017 - 06:48 UTC

  UK says Russia is responsible by proxy for civilian deaths in Syrian poison gas attack

  

  Britain said on Sunday Russia bore responsibility by proxy for civilian deaths in Syria last week caused by a poison gas attack that Washington says was carried out by the Moscow-backed government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. At least 70 people died in what the United States says was a chemical weapons attack in rebel-held Syria.