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Russia to deploy military police on Syria-Turkey' border
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia] Feb 24 (ANI): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday said that the government is considering deploying military police in the buffer zone that is currently being created on the border between Syria and Turkey.
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Mueller report not expected next week: US official
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 23 (ANI): Special Counsel Robert Mueller would not be delivering his report on Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election next week, according to an official from the US Justice Department.
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US exit from INF treaty puts lives of Europeans at risk: Russian lawmaker
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Vienna [Austria] Feb 22 (ANI): United States has put at risk the lives of all Europeans by opting out of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia, Russian lawmaker Peter Tolstoy said on Thursday.
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Senate investigators to question Moscow businessman linked to Trump
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [United States] Feb 22 (ANI): The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 United States election, has expressed its desire to question a Moscow-based American businessman with longstanding ties to US President Donald Trump.
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Totally up to attorney general: Trump on release of Mueller report
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US] Feb 21 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that it is totally up to Attorney General William Barr whether and when to release the special counsel Robert Mueller's report on links between the Russian government and Trump's campaign.
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Russia will retaliate if threatened by US: Putin
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Feb 20 (ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday reinforced that Moscow would deploy "tit-for-tat and asymmetric measures" if the US stationed missiles in Europe.
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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov condems Facebook ban on TV channel
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia] Dec 20 (ANI): A day after Facebook blocked a page run by state-funded RT television, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday denounced the act by citing it as another example of pressure against the country's media and free speech but restrained from taking action
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US Senate approves William Barr as attorney general
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Feb 15 (ANI): The US Senate on Thursday (local time) voted to confirm William Barr as the nation's next attorney general, putting him in charge of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into alleged Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential elections.
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Russia says ready to mediate Venezuelan crisis
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Feb 14 (Xinhua/ANI): Russia is ready to join mediation efforts to help end the Venezuelan crisis, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
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Maria Sharapova pulls out of Indian Wells due to shoulder injury
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Florida [USA], Feb 14 (ANI): Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the upcoming Indian Wells Masters due to an injury in the right shoulder.
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Pentagon warns of Chinese, Russian threats to US satellites
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 12 (ANI): The United States Defence Intelligence Agency's latest report has warned that both China and Russia are separately "developing a variety of means" to target US satellites in space.
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IPC to lift ban on Russia paralympics
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Georgia [United States], Feb 8 (ANI): International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will provisionally lift the ban on the Russian para-athletes competing in the Paralympics, next month.
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