Russia accuses US special services of trying to recruit Russian media
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that Russian media representatives, including those in the United States, are being recruited by Special Services, reports Interfax.
"Recently, representatives of Russian media, including in the US, have been subjected to severe pressure from the Special Services, namely, attempts at recruitment," Zakharova said. She added that the journalists received threats without specifying details.
Russia considers such actions to be an " …
Ukrainian representative to UN: Russia should be tried for war crimes in Ukraine
The Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Volodymyr Yelchenko has called for bringing charges of war crimes against state authorities of the Russian Federation "who instigated, stoked, and backed military aggression against Ukraine". Yelchenko made this statement at the December 6th meeting of the UN Security Council where progress in the International Criminal Tribunals regarding the former states of Yugoslavia and Rwanda was being discussed, Ukrinform reported.
“The …
Media: Russian security services search offices of largest Russian IT companies
Law enforcement officers conducted a search of the main office of the IT-group, Lanit, at the Murmanskiy Proyezd in Moscow on Wednesday, December 6th, as reported by RBC news agency, citing a representative of the press service of the company.
The TAdviser web portal, citing a visitor at the office who witnessed the incident, and an employee of the company, specified that the search was carried out by people wearing masks and hats with FSB inscriptions.
According to the portal, employees were …
Putin: Kremlin will not interfere with participation of Russian athletes under neutral flag at 2018 Olympics
The Kremlin will not interfere with Russian athletes participating under a neutral flag in the 2018 Olympics, said Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with workers at GAZ car plant in Nizhny Novgorod.According to him, the Russian authorities “themselves provided grounds” for the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban the national team from the Olympic Games. At the same time, as Putin put it, the IOC has acted “not quite honestly” with the Russian athletes, …
Tillerson: Deploying peacekeepers in Donbas a priority for US
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that, in order to resolve the conflict in the Donbas, the US considers it a priority to reach an agreement on the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission there.
A statement to this effect was made by the head of the US foreign policy department on Wednesday, December 6, the day before the planned talks with his Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov, DW reports.
“Russia has long resisted the idea of bringing in peacekeeping forces, but now they have agreed,” …