Contents tagged with Russia
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Syria starts building tourist resorts for Russians
The construction of tourist resorts for Russian citizens has begun in Syria, said Syria's Ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad, RIA Novosti reports.
"The construction of tourist resorts for Russians begins in Syria. There are some working facilities and even now there are some tourists,” Haddad told journalists in Yalta. He said that tourists are on vacation mostly in regions of Syria that are located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. "The situation is better there than in other places. Most …
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LPR and DPR residents to be banned from entering Russia during FIFA 2018 World Cup
Russia intends to ban residents of the separate regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces from entering the country during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. A statement to this effect was made by Oleh Slobodyan, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS), on his Facebook page.
“As the SBGS has learned, as part of preparation for the FIFA-2018 football World Cup, security measures in Russia are being tightened. And so, in the period between June 1 and July 17, 2018, restrictions …
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Germany says relations with Russia improving
In an interview published in the newspaper Saarbrücker Zeitung, German Foreign Affairs Minister Heiko Maas said that he sees progress in improving German-Russian relations.
" As you can see, our approach produces clear results: while some are only talking about dialogue, I have long been ensuring its intensification," said Maas.
The Minister recalled that he held discussions on May 10 in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, noting that during the talks they reached agreements …
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US Treasury Department accuses Venezuelan President Maduro of drug trafficking and money laundering in Russia
The United States has accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, Maduro's second-in-command in the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, of getting revenue from the drug trade, reported the Voice of America.
The US Treasury Department published a statement indicating that Cabello had confiscated small quantities of drugs from drug traffickers, collected them in a large batch, and exported them through Venezuela's state airport.
"Cabello, along with President …
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Survey: Russia on par with Uganda in economic crimes
Russia has reached the world’s top five with respect to the levels of economic crimes against business. In the rating compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Russia took fourth place, sharing this position with Uganda. Only in France, Kenya and South Africa do countries face economic crimes more frequently than in Russia.
These are crimes which are qualified as such by companies themselves, not by the government, and the incidents need not have featured in legal cases, PwC explains. The …
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Russia considers launching satellites using ballistic missiles
Russia is once again considering a project to use RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to launch satellites into space, RIA Novosti reports.
“The rocket and space sector has returned to consideration of a project to convert decommissioned Topol ICBMs in order to use them in the space program – to create light carrier rockets based on them,” a source in the military space sector told the news agency.
The Russian Defense Ministry has begun replacing Topols with the more …
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Ukraine calls for limitation of Russia's veto power in the UN
The Ukrainian Delegation to the UN pointed out the need to reform the United Nations Security Council due to abuses of veto powers by certain countries, particularly Russia, Ukrinform reports. "The reaction of the Security Council to serious violations of international law is slow and inconsistent,” Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko stated.
He recalled that Russia is defying international law by carrying out armed aggression against Ukraine while …
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International Court of Justice demands explanation from Russia for not complying with court’s ruling on Crimean Tatar Mejlis
The International Court of Justice in The Hague officially requested Russia to explain its failure to comply with last year’s ruling of the court, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olena Zerkal, said.
Evropeyska Pravda news outlet reports that the The Hague Court asks Russia to explain how it complies with the rling of the International Court, on resumption of the Mejlis activities. Specifically, Russia must explain what was done to create normal conditions for activities of the …
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Lavrov: Russian military will remain in Syria as long as Assad regime needs them
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Argentine newspaper Clarin in a recent interview that Russia will maintain its military contingent in Syria as long as the local government continues to need it.
The Russian military personnel, as the Minister recalled, have been there since fall 2015 "at the invitation of the legitimate government of the Arab Republic." It then asked Moscow to help "in stabilizing the situation in the country, creating conditions for a political settlement of …
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Russia files a case against American journalist who suggested blowing up the Crimean Bridge
The Russian Investigative Committee initiated criminal proceedings against a journalist from the Washington Examiner, an American political journalism website, who wrote that Ukraine should destroy the Crimean (Kerch) Bridge, reported the press-center of the Investigative Committee.
"The investigation suggests, Tom Rogan’s piece published in the public domain on the Internet contains signs of public calls for criminal activities on the territory of the Russian Federation aimed at destabilizing …