On Wednesday, the US Senate almost unanimously (97 for, 2 against) approved the document which could put into law and expand the sanctions against Russia, Golos Ameriki reports.

Corresponding amendments were introduced into the law on sanctions with respect to Iran. The senators added the Russian sanctions there too.

Amongst other things, the document obligates the White House to coordinate the decision with Congress if it decides to ease, suspend or lift the current sanctions against Russia. …

The Russian Embassy in the United States confirmed that for the first time in 25 years they did not receive any congratulations from US authorities on Russia Day, as reported by RIA Novosti news agency.

"We can confirm that we have not received a congratulatory message from the United States on the Day of Russia. This is the first time this has happened in living memory. Draw your own conclusions," said embassy representative Nikolai Lakhonin.

Earlier, it was reported that the President of …

The Democratic Party of Moldova intends to register a bill in parliament to combat foreign propaganda, including Russian propaganda.

Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament Andrian Candu said that there are plans to stop broadcasting the "news and political and analytical programs" produced by Russian TV channels.

Earlier, the Moldovan parliament discussed a draft on restricting the broadcasts of information and analytical programs of TV channels from the states that had not ratified the European …

“We have a dangerous dependence, even if it is with a friendly country. We receive 95% of our energy resources from there,” Semashko said to journalists in Minsk on Tuesday.

He stressed that the Republic is building BelAES (the nuclear power plant) to avoid this dependence.

Semashko expressed his confidence that there would be a significant increase in prices for natural gas in the near future. Before this happens, the nuclear power plant will be operational and Belarus will be insured …

The two-year-long negotiations with China on increasing gas supplies and the building of two new pipelines have come to a deadlock, as stated in an article by Reuters.

Sources of the agency who are familiar with the situation note that Beijing does not see the need for "The Power of Siberia-2" pipeline (western route) and supplies from Sakhalin (Far Eastern route), which had been discussed since 2015. The capacity of the first gas pipeline, as expected, will be 30 billion cubic meters per year, …

Deputy Minister for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons George Tuka said during an annual meeting with European partners that Russia is constantly building up its military potential on the territory of the annexed Crimea, the ministry’s press service reports.

In Tuka's opinion, this could be a threat not only because of possible aggression of Russia against the mainland of Ukraine but also because of changes in the ethnic composition of the population of the …

Germany is interested in a meaningful relationship with Russia, but "from a position of strength," German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said at a meeting of the European Parliament's Committee on International Affairs and the Subcommittee on Security and Defense in Strasbourg.

"Our position is such: that we want meaningful relations with Russia, but we know that this should happen from a position of strength. It should be clear that we are interested in the resolution of conflicts at …

The President of Russia announced that the US "used terrorists to swing the domestic political situation in Russia."

In his interview with Oliver Stone, published by the Showtime network, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that United States intelligence supported militants in Chechnya to destabilize the situation in Russia.

"When we started having problems in Chechnya, unfortunately in the Northern Caucasus, the Americans supported these processes," the Russian leader said.

"We had an …