Russia

The Ukraine capital Kyiv was rocked by explosions early on Friday and air raid sirens and explosions were reported across the country, according to the Interfax Ukraine and reports on social media channels. There were no details on what…
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Risks of a direct military confrontation between the two nuclear powers, Russia and the United States, are steadily growing, the TASS news agency quoted a senior Russian diplomat as saying on Tuesday. Vladimir Yermakov, the foreign…
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Deception and diplomacy often go hand in hand in a globally competitive world. It is a key element of Chinese diplomatic arsenal in its pursuit of global superpower ambitions, but its client state Pakistan has honed it into an art and is…
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China and Russia have vowed to “strengthen” military cooperation to safeguard “global and regional security” during a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US-sanctioned Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu in Moscow on…
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The Shiveluch volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula erupted sending an ash plume up to 10 kilometers high that may pose threat to air traffic, the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) said. Issuing a code red Volcano…
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Russia’s UN ambassador on Monday dismissed US and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool’s joke and announced a meeting to be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on defending…
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A “massive attack” of Russian missiles killed six people on Sunday in residential areas of Kostyantynivka, near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the resistance against what he called “the biggest force…
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Russia’s ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has warned that attempts to arrest Vladimir Putin abroad after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant against him would be seen by Moscow as a “declaration of war” Medvedev, who served…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to travel to Russia to meet with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as soon as next week, people familiar with the matter said, which would be sooner than previously expected. Plans for a visit come…
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India and Russia reviewed bilateral trade and economic cooperation, including the deficit in bilateral trade, during a virtual meeting on Monday between external affairs minister S Jaishankar and Russian deputy prime minister Denis…
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