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Polish diplomats were not let into Russia through the border with Belarus
Border guards turned away the Polish diplomats, who were trying to cross the Russian-Belarusian border in the Smolensk region.
The incident occurred at the Krasnaya Gorka checkpoint. According to the FSB border management of the region, two cars with diplomatic license plates traveled from Belarus to Russia and were stopped at the border between the two countries on a Moscow-Minsk highway.
A border guard spokesman, Alexander Laznenko, explained that there are no border control staff that …
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US Permanent Representative to the UN: Russia's actions threaten the world order
Russia is undertaking aggressive and destabilizing actions that threaten the world order, as stated by the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, Samantha Power, Reuters reported.
"Russia's actions do not support the international order. They undermine the one that already exists," she said.
In her speech, Power referred to the "Russian intervention" in the conflict in southeastern Ukraine, Russia’s support of the government in the civil war in Syria, and "attempts to influence elections in …
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US Navy plane tracked the movement of the Russian aircraft carrier group in the Mediterranean
According to websites that track military aircraft, the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft conducted a reconnaissance flight on Tuesday over an area in the western Mediterranean, to track a Russian Northern Fleet aircraft carrier group that is returning to Severomorsk, Interfax reported.
According to their information, the aircraft took off from an air base in Rota (Spain), on Tuesday afternoon and carried out a patrol mission to the north of the Spanish island of Alboran, …
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Lavrov claims American diplomats are engaged in espionage
During a large press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2016, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that American intelligence services tried to recruit Russian high-ranking diplomats.
Lavrov said that during U.S. President Barack Obama’s second term, the USA’s efforts to recruit Russian diplomats increased. According to him, American intelligence services tried to make recruitment offers to a high-level Ambassador. "They tried to get him into a car and give him ten …
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Ukrainian Naftogaz signed an agreement with Covington and Burling lawfirm
Ukrainian Naftogaz signed a contract for $6.31 million with Covington & Barling LLP (New York, USA). Covington & Barling LLP will represent the interests of the national oil and gas company (Naftogaz Ukraine) in arbitration against Russia under a claim for the compensation of losses over the annexation of the Crimea by Russia.
As Interfax-Ukraine reported, the agreement was signed on January 11th. According to Naftogaz’s report in the ProZorro e-procurement system, the agreement will expire on …