Russian leadership is of two minds on how to respond to the ongoing fighting in Ukraine, which crossed the border over the weekend. But ‘surgical strikes’ appear to be off the table.
Doubts over Russia’s participation in the world’s biggest aerospace industry event were growing on Tuesday after the country’s deputy prime minister urged its delegates to pack up and go home.
The Khoroshevsky District Court in Moscow has sentenced Alexei Shirikhin, an aide to a State Duma lawmaker, to 5.5 years in prison in a 100,000 rubles ($2,915) extortion case, the court’s press secretary, Olga Litsareva, told RAPSI on Tuesday.
A summit of the BRICS group of emerging market countries will abstain from criticizing Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine, Brazilian officials said, a diplomatic victory for President Vladimir Putin.
LUHANSK, Ukraine – A military transport plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine on Monday, Ukrainian officials said, while new reports emerged that Russia was building up forces along its border with Ukraine.
Ukraine has asked Russia to pay $1 billion for 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas stored at an underground facility belonging to Crimea’s Black Sea oil and gas company Chernomorneftegaz, Acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Tuesday.
Police in the Netherlands on Tuesday detained 30 Greenpeace activists for blocking an oil rig owned by Russian energy giant Gazprom to stop it from reaching the Arctic shelf, Interfax reported.
Russian judges and court employees have been cautioned against traveling to the countries that have extradition agreements with the United States, Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday.
Negotiations on a date of holding a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels at the ambassador level have yielded no results so far, a source at the Defense Ministry has told ITAR-TASS.
Congress is stepping up pressure on the White House to confront Russia over allegations that it is cheating on a key nuclear arms treaty — a faceoff that could further strain U.S.-Moscow relations and dampen President Barack Obama’s hopes to add deeper cuts in nuclear arsenals to his legacy.
