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White House: The U.S. will continue the policy of sanctions against Russia until it 'leaves eastern Ukraine'
The USA intends to continue the sanctions policy towards Russia until it "leaves eastern Ukraine," as indicated on Tuesday by the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, at a routine press briefing.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Finance Ministry included 38 people and organizations, including "two Russian civil servants" and two of their assistants, in the sanctions list. Among the Russians on the list are the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Sergey Nazarov, a member …
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The Pentagon blamed Russia for a dangerously close encounter between aircraft over the Baltic
The US military department said that the interception of a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft by a Russian Air Force jet in the Baltic Sea was unsafe.
"On June 19, an American RC-135U aircraft flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian Su-27. Due to the high speed of convergence and poor control over the aircraft during the interception, this interaction is regarded as unsafe," the Pentagon statement said.
The agency also stressed that the American …
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Media: In Oliver Stone’s ‘The Putin Interviews’ Putin used a fake video to show ‘the work of Russian aviation’
The third part of the documentary "Putin", which Russian television will show on Wednesday, June 21, included a fragment in which the Russian president demonstrates the actions of Russian aviation in Syria to American director Oliver Stone on a smartphone.
As a group of independent investigators from the Conflict Intelligence Team was able to establish, Putin passed off a video in which a US Apache helicopter attacks the position of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009 as the work of Russian …
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Lavrov: The war in Syria is becoming very crowded
Syria “has become very crowded on the land and in the air.”, stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after talks with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, as reported by RIA Novosti.
“Indeed, it’s very crowded on the ground and in the air. There are many participants in the fighting: there are the Syrian armed forces and the forces that are called pro-government forces, including Hezbollah, and the forces supported by the Iranians. There are also armed opposition and terrorists …
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Russia prepares retaliatory measures for US sanctions
According to the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, Russia has begun to develop retaliatory measures after the latest expansion of sanctions by Washington, RIA Novosti reported.
"We regret this [step by the US]. And it is with this feeling once again of missed opportunities to move towards improving our bilateral relations that we begin to work out our response measures," Ryabkov specified.
According to Ryabkov, Washington "plays into the hands of the war party in Kyiv"; that is, …