The Russia-Turkey-Iran summit on Syria will be held in Russia in early 2019, a Russian diplomat announced Friday. The leaders of the Astana trio (Russia, Turkey and Iran) will meet in Russia at the beginning of 2019, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow will continue supporting Russian national Maria Butina even after her deal with a US court. The statement comes a day after Butina pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent without proper registration in the United States. She is facing a prison term of up to […]

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad predicts that Syria’s reconstruction will cost between $250 billion and $400 billion, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov has said after meeting with the Syrian head of state. Borisov’s office said Thursday that the diplomat had discussed industrial, medical, and energy cooperation with Assad in Damascus on Thursday, as a years-long […]

A detachment of the Russian Pacific Fleet entered the eastern Indian port city of Visakhapatnam on Sunday to participate in the joint Russian-Indian military drills Indra Navy 2018, the fleet’s press service said. According to the press service, the detachment comprises the Varyag missile cruiser, the Admiral Panteleyev destroyer and the Boris Butoma tanker. “Today […]

Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to exempt Iran from a plan for a cut in oil production after tough and intensive talks, noting that Russia played a constructive role in the meeting as a non-OPEC member. OPEC agreed to cut output despite the US pressure, […]

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani held separate meetings with his Turkish and Afghan counterparts in the capital, Tehran, on Friday, discussing a range of regional and international issues, including ways to combat terrorism. Speaking at the meeting with Turkish Parliament Speaker Binali Yildirim, Larijani said mutual cooperation to boost security in the Middle East has […]

Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the United States is using terrorists as an instrument of pressure and direct intervention in the affairs of sovereign states. “The geopolitical ambitions of the United States of America, which continue to use terrorists and extremists as an instrument of pressure and direct interference in the affairs of […]

The Kremlin shrugged off a US call for it to scrap a nuclear-capable missile Friday, saying it was in compliance with the Cold-War era arms control treaty Washington accuses the missile of violating. A senior US official had said Thursday that Russia must scrap its 9M729 nuclear-capable cruise missiles and launchers or modify the weapons’ […]

The Ukrainian Parliament Thursday voted to withdraw from a wide-ranging treaty on friendship with Russia, the latest step in escalating tensions between the two neighboring countries. The Supreme Rada overwhelmingly supported a motion by President Petro Poroshenko not to prolong the treaty when it comes up for renewal in April. The camouflage-clad president visited an […]

The United States has on multiple occasions spoken against the construction of Nord Stream 2, with President Donald Trump blasting EU countries for their support of the project and urging them to abandon it in favor of American LNG. In an interview with Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker, US National Security Advisor John […]