The US State Department announced that the United States is ready to cancel anti-Russian sanctions due to Skripal's poisoning under several conditions.

According to the message of Washington, in the next three months, Russia has to assure that it will not use chemical or biological weapons, reported RBC news agency. In addition, Russian authorities shall not obstruct the work of UN inspectors and independent international observers.

The second package of sanctions stipulates reduction of …

Russian banks are in no rush to support the government debt market, which foreign investors have recently fled. The largest and systematically most significant banks and other participants in the banking system have been dumping Federal Loan Bonds (OFZs) alongside non-residents, according to a statistic published by the Central Bank of Russia on Wednesday.

Foreign investors disposed of 370 billion rubles worth of Russian government debt notes after the US placed sanctions on the aluminum …

According to RIA Novosti, thanks to the demand of domestic investors, state borrowing program will be fully implemented, the Finance Ministry announced, noting that the previous initiatives of the senators to impose sanctions against the Russian state debt “did not proceed”.

The department is cautious about the plan of American congressmen to introduce the most severe sanctions. “This news is definitely painful for foreign holders of the OFZ bonds. At the same time, the previous initiatives of …

The Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada parliament of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova responded to the Oleh Sentsov sister’s statement about the catastrophically bad health condition of the Ukrainian political prisoner.

According to her, she asked Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova and the Chairman of the Russian Federation Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov to discuss any possible conditions for the exchange of the Ukrainian …

The US has decided to help the Russian government attain “victory over the dollar”, a goal proclaimed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in May, finanz.ru writes.

The bill to expand the sanctions (“Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2018”), put forward by a group of senators from both parties of US Congress, in addition to prohibiting investments in Russian government debt and demanding the return of Crimea to Ukraine, proposes to recognize Russia as a state sponsoring …

US Senator Republican Rand Paul said that during his visit to Moscow, he delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian authorities.

“I was honored to deliver a letter from President Trump to President Vladimir Putin’s administration. The letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in various areas including countering terrorism, enhancing legislative dialogue and resuming cultural exchanges,” Paul wrote on Twitter.

In connection with this, the White House press …

Ukrainian political prisoner Oleh Sentsov, who has been starving for three months already in a Russian prison in Labytnangi, is in a critical condition, his cousin Natalya Kaplan posted on Facebook.

“Everything isn’t just bad, everything is catastrophically bad. Oleh sent me a letter through his lawyer, he can barely stand up. He said that the end is near, and he doesn’t mean release. He asks whether anyone is still interested in his hunger strike, they don’t pass on any letters to him, none! …

The USA’s ability to counter Russia’s hypersonic weapons is unquestionable despite the claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin made while presenting new Russia’s hypersonic weapons in March, stated John Hyten, Commander of United States Strategic Command during a Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, CNBC reports.

“Guess what? He [Vladimir Putin] still can't find our submarines, he still can't take out 400 missile fields across the country, he still can't do anything about …