The head of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, assured lawmakers at hearings in the Senate that the ministry under his auspices will continue implementing programs to impose sanctions against Russia and Iran, as reported on the Department of the Treasury’s website.

The hearings, about the department’s budget for the 2019 fiscal year, were held in the Appropriations Committee. “Budgetary funds will also be used in harmony with the Countering America’s Adversaries Through …

The Russian embassy in Britain has expressed concern about the conditions where Yulia Skripal is located, Radio Liberty reports.

“The published video only increases our concern over the conditions where she is. It is obvious that she read a prepared text. Additionally, judging by a few aspects of it, the text was a translation from English and was originally written by a native English speaker. This impression is confirmed by handwritten letters signed by Yulia in Russian and English,” the …

Belarus has called on the EU to ease the sanctions.  “We regret that in February, the European Union extended restrictive measures against Belarus, which have long lost any rational explanation, and we continue to urge the EU to remove the restrictive measures that still remain,” stated Belarus’ Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vladimir Makei, DS News reports.

Minister Makei added that cooperation over the past few years has brought far more positive results than the previous two decades of …