The Israeli authorities sent a proposal to the Lebanese government in an attempt to resolve the conflict in its initial stage and avoid further escalation.

According to the Lebanese newspaper Al Liwaa, Moscow acted as a mediator in these secret negotiations, in which Jerusalem informed Beirut that it is willing to refrain from breaching UN Security Council Resolution No. 1701 and even to refrain from attacking Hezbollah in Syria.

Israel’s proposition was reportedly sent after an attack by …

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has advised the Russian embassy to stop distributing the “questionable assertion” that the Soviet Union liberated Eastern Europe by defeating Nazi Germany.

“Without denying the USSR’s contribution to the defeat of Nazism in Europe, we must not close our eyes to the fact that the Soviet Army brought half a century of repression to the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe,” the department remarked.

The Foreign Ministry released the statement the day before the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his speech at the plenary session of World Economic Forum 2019, said that Russia offered to sell its hypersonic weapons to the United States.

Putin noted that, during the last meeting with American partners in Osaka, the US raised a question "how to include newest Russian modern weapons, including hypersonic missile systems, into General agreements."

"This means that no country in the world, including the United States, have such a weapon," Putin said. …