Contents tagged with USA
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Kremlin: Putin and Trump to discuss Syria at next meeting
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s meeting at the APEC Summit in Vietnam is necessary in order for them to discuss the Syrian problem, said Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, as reported by Interfax.
Peskov emphasized that in US-Russian relations many matters have accumulated which require discussion by the heads of state. It is thus in the interests of both countries “for both presidents to find an opportunity for more or less prolonged communication”, he remarked.The two presidents will …
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Washington: USA will continue to exert pressure on Russia with sanctions
The U.S. State Department explained the updated sanctions issued by the Ministry of Finance on October 31, saying that it will work with its allies on the issue of pressuring Russia with sanctions, RIA Novosti reported.
“We will work with our allies and partners in the implementation of these sanctions in order to impose costs on the Russian government, while seeking to avoid unforeseen negative impacts on others,” the State Department said.
On October 31, the U.S. Treasury Department banned …
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Khrushchev’s son: Joint US-Soviet mission to the Moon did not take place because of the weakness of the Soviet space program
The youngest son of Nikita Khrushchev, the former leader of the USSR, discussed the development of relations between Moscow and Washington over the past 100 years. According to the 82-year old Doctor of Engineering who has resided in the United States since 1991, his father’s infamous quote, "We will bury you," was a desperate attempt to cover the true weakness of the USSR.
When John Kennedy offered to send a joint space mission to the Moon, Khrushchev refused over a fear that the Americans …
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Khrushchev’s son: Russia is no match to the power of the US
The son of the former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Khrushchev, said that neither the Soviet Union nor modern Russia can match the power of the US, as reported by the Las Vegas Sun.
A Doctor of Technical Sciences, Sergei Khrushchev delivered a lecture at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas.
As a scientist who has lived in the United States since the 1990s, he briefly outlined the history of …
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Russia Today Editor-in-Chief accuses Twitter of collaboration with U.S. special services
By forbidding the television channel Russia Today from advertising, Twitter has, in fact, signed up to cooperate with the U.S. special services, stated RT (Russia Today) Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan.
“I admit, I did not believe that Twitter was run by U.S. intelligence agencies. I thought it was a conspiracy theory. But Twitter has just admitted it. It's a shame,” she said.
Along with this, Simonyan admitted that the Russian authorities would “respond politely” to the American media in …
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US State Department: delay with introduction of new sanctions against Russia caused by complexity of the process
The US State Department is working on identifying individuals and organizations associated with the Russian defense and intelligence sectors, and the complexity of the process has caused the deadline to be set back, said State Department spokesman Heather Nauert at a press briefing.
According to Nauert, defining such persons and organizations may lead to them being subjected to new sanctions. The State Department "is working to complete the process." " My understanding – and I’m not working on …
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Russia accuses the US of removing archive documents from Russian consular building
US authorities did not give Russian diplomats access to the Russian Consulate General building in San Francisco to retrieve the consular archives, but independently brought them to the Russian embassy, as stated on the Russian Embassy Facebook page.
"The US authorities never granted us access to the Russian Consulate General building in San Francisco, which was closed by them on September 2nd, in order to retrieve the consular archives. Instead, they packed it themselves and took it to …
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Kyiv: commencement of American weapons supplies to Ukraine depends only on the political decision of US leadership
The commencement of deliveries of American weapons to Ukraine currently depends only on the political decision of the US leadership, stated Viktor Muzhenko, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"We have such prospects [regarding the supplies of lethal weapons to Ukraine]. All the lists have been agreed upon, and the procedural matters have been discussed. Now we await a political decision [by the White House]," he said in an interview with Ukrinform. The Chief of the …
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Kremlin: Russia prepares for possible US withdrawal from the nuclear deal on Iran
Russia is considering options for the possible withdrawal of the US from the Iranian nuclear program agreement, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
He noted that although Washington did not officially announce the withdrawal from the agreement, "the essence of the demands put forward by President Donald Trump puts many things into question."
According to Interfax, Ryabkov said that the Russians are now holding consultations and "considering various options," especially at the …
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Media: At previous meeting with Surkov, Volker wanted to learn if Russia was ready to resolve the Donbas conflict
On October 7, a meeting between the US Department of State's Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, and Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov took place in Belgrade. However, the details of the meeting had remained unknown- until now.
The publication LB.ua, citing sources in diplomatic circles, has reported that the meeting itself consisted of three elements. First, lunch; further, a tête-à-tête, which lasted more than an hour; and, finally, communication with members of their …