• 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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, …

  • Poroshenko arranged a meeting with Trump

    President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced his arrangement of a meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, his administration posted on Twitter.

    "I was one of the first world leaders to call Trump after elections. We arranged a meeting,” the statement reads in which the President’s administration refers to Poroshenko’s interview with Bloomberg during the visit to Davos.

    Earlier, it was reported that the Vice President of the USA, Joseph Biden, expressed hope that Trump’s …

  • 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 …