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Kremlin: U.S. will try to block certification of Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Russia believes that the U.S. has abandoned the sanctions against the participants of North Stream-2 pipeline, but intend to try to block its certification, said Russia's Permanent Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, RIA Novosti reports.
"The U.S. position is that the construction cannot be stopped. But after the construction comes the certification period. Here they can put some more sticks in our wheels," Chizhov said.
At the same time, Chizhov assured. that the Russian authorities …
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Russian Foreign Ministry announces visit of Hamas representatives to Moscow
Representatives of various Palestinian movements, including Hamas, intend to visit Moscow for consultations, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
"Both Fatah, Hamas and other organizations from the West Bank," RIA Novosti quoted Bogdanov as saying. "We not only hold telephone conversation with them but are in active contacts with all Palestinian structures."
"If they have a desire to communicate with each other, without our presence or with our presence, in such a friendly …
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Zelensky: Germany and France are afraid to recognize Russia as participant in Donbas conflict
In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Germany and France are afraid to call Russia a participant in the Donbas conflict.
"At the last meeting of the advisors to the leaders of the Normandy Four countries, where Mr. Dmitry Kozak, who represents Russia, asked our European partners whether Russia was a participant in the conflict, representatives of Germany and France did not directly respond that Russia is a participant. They again …
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Russia promises to continue gas transit through Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia does not intend to stop gas transit to Europe through Ukraine.
"Russia and Ukraine have concluded a gas transit agreement to Europe, this agreement will remain in force for its entire term. But even after the expiration of this agreement, Russia does not intend to abandon Ukrainian transit," Peskov said.
Peskov noted that Putin assumes that in the future the volume of gas supplies to Europe will grow, and Ukrainian …
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Sudan refuses to allow construction of Russian naval base
Russia's hopes for establishing a naval base in Africa, the first since the end of the Cold War, seem to be fading away.
Sudan decided to review the agreement, which was concluded in November 2020 and allowed Russia to open a naval logistics facility in one of Africa's poorest countries, where repairs and resupply, including nuclear submarines, could take place.
The treaty on military-technical cooperation was concluded by the previous government and was never ratified by the Legislative …