Contents tagged with USA
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Belarusian President Lukashenko promises to assist Assad in ‘Syria’s restoration’
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that he is willing to offer “comprehensive assistance” to the Assad regime in the process of restoring Syria.
Lukashenko made a statement to this effect in a greeting to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the countries, BELTA reports, citing the president’s press service.
“Belarusian-Syrian relations were tested in a special way during the war against terrorism in Syria. During the troubled …
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Iran renews negotiations with Russia on construction of a new nuclear power plant
According to the Tasnim news agency, Iran renewed negotiations with Russia on the construction of a new nuclear power plant that will be able to produce up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity, announced Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanyan on Saturday.
At present, Iran has the opportunity to produce nuclear power at a reactor with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, reported Tasnim.
Iran already has one Russian nuclear reactor located in Busher. It was the first reactor launched in the country. …
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Russia warns the US and its allies against 'reckless steps' in Syria
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, commenting on the Bloomberg publication that if Syrian government troops would use chemical weapons, the United States is ready for a missile strike on Syria, warned Washington and their allies against "new reckless steps." The government official informed RIA Novosti.
Ryabkov remarked that in Moscow, "they hear Washington’s ultimatums, including public ones." However, the Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry assured that this "does not …
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US Secretary of State discusses the issue of Sentsov’s imprisonment with Lavrov
The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a telephone conversation with the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, during which the two sides discussed the situation with the Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov, reported the press service of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Mike Pompeo discussed the issue of Oleg Sentsov’s imprisonment who is accused of involvement in terrorist activities. He was given the relevant explanations,” reads the message.
The …
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Media: American Actor Steven Seagal becomes a Russian entrepreneur
American actor Steven Seagal has registered as an individual entrepreneur in Russia, reported RIA Novosti, citing Seagal’s representative, Anar Reiband.
According to Reiband, Seagal did this to legalize his activities in Russia because he lives and works there most of the time. Seagal has reportedly made a relevant application to the Federal Tax Service of Elektrostal City in the Moscow region where he now lives.
The actor’s representative noted that Seagal has already starred in several …
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Putin calls his meeting with Trump useful
Russian President Vladimir Putin called his meeting with American counterpart Donald Trump, which took place in Helsinki last month, useful .
"As for our meeting with President Trump, I assess it positively and I think that it was useful," he said at the press conference in Sochi while answering the correspondent's question. Putin stressed that "no one expected that in a two-hour conversation it would be possible to resolve all issues that until now were controversial." He noted that the U.S. …
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Ukrainian Ambassador denies the US has reduced aid to Ukraine
At a press conference in Kyiv, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly refuted statements that Washington is reducing support for Kyiv.
“I have heard these claims in Kyiv and Washington that the Americans are reducing aid [to Ukraine]. Do not believe this. Look at the facts, they tell the opposite story. Currently, Ukraine is receiving direct financial assistance in the sum of about $620 million dollars, one of the largest amounts in the whole world,” the ambassador said. …
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Israel and Kyiv in talks on transferring Ukrainian the Embassy to Jerusalem
Israel has suggested to the Ukrainian government that the Embassy of Ukraine be transferred from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,stated the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Minister of Environmental Protection, Ze'ev Elkin in an interview with LB.ua.
“One of the important topics raised at my meeting with the President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and also at an earlier meeting of our Prime Minister with Pavlo Klimkin during his visit to Israel this year was the issue of transferring the …
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Russian businesses prepare to be cut off from US dollar
Major Russian businesses have started preparing for new US sanctions which, in addition to prohibiting investments into Russian government debt, will also block certain Russian government banks from transacting in dollars.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, such companies as Alrosa and Nornickel have already tried out the first deals without the dollar system.
Alrosa, the world’s leading diamond miner by volume, which has earned $3 billion in the first 7 months of 2018, has tested a …
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Kremlin calls new US sanctions unlawful
The US sanctions against Russia that will come into force on August 22 are unlawful. They negatively affect international trade, Russian President’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Kommersant FM radio. He also stressed that “such restrictions will certainly affect the entire international trade.”
“We are aware that the bill has been prepared. We are familiar with the content of the bill. It has been published on their internet resources. We have carefully studied it and we consider that it …