London Should Make Choice in Its Approach to Moscow - Ambassador to UK
Russian Ambassador to the UK said on Sunday that the UK government should determine its position toward Russia and stop hesitating.
Russian Ambassador to the UK said on Sunday that the UK government should determine its position toward Russia and stop hesitating.
Saudi Arabia’s Shoura (Consultative) Council is preparing a program to deport five million illegal migrants – about 20 percent of all those living in the oil-rich Gulf kingdom, the newspaper Al-Hayat reported.
The idea of United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to block China’s access to its artificial islets in the South China Sea cannot be implemented and will never come to life, according to Russian Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov.
Tehran has said that it is testing the Bavar-373, a new indigenous missile defense complex that is ostensibly as capable as the Russian-made S-300, to send a signal to the United States and Israel, as well as improve morale of its armed forces and the people, political analyst Alexander Perendzhiev told RIA Novosti.
UK State Secretary for Exiting the European Union David Davis urged the Conservative parliament members not to vote in favor of the amendments to the Brexit bill, local media reported Sunday.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has arrived, alongside members of his government, in the Adjaran regional capital Batumi to look into the situation on the ground following overnight anti-police riots, the government's press service said Sunday.
On March 12, 1999, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary officially became NATO members. The move has often been described as the first expansion of the alliance.
NASA and the International Potato Center (CIP) have launched a series of experiments to discover if potatoes can grow on Mars. Sputnik discussed the issue with Dr. Julio Valdivia-Silva, a Peruvian scientist involved in the project.
The leader of the Turkish main opposition Republican People's Party, called on Sunday to suspend the relations with the Netherlands amid the Dutch authorities' decision to ban Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam.
China and Russia are set to construct the world's first commercial submarine, according to media reports. The corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences Konstantin Sivkov spoke to Sputnik Radio about such a submarine and how popular will it be once constructed.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) said on Sunday it was prepared to patrol the Donetsk water filtration station (DFS) near the Donetsk suburb of Avdiivka amid continued clashes between Ukrainian forces and Donbass militia.
US diplomats are worried about the "witch-hunt" which is taking place amid alleged contacts between the Trump administration's officials and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.
The US labour market posted solid improvements in February, supporting the case for the Fed rate hike this month, however, the broader US economy is lacking growth sustainability, having demonstrated uneven dynamics between various sectors.
The Netherlands will "pay the price" for a decision to ban Turkish Family and Social Affairs Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.
Relations between the United States and Russia have been plagued by "the deficit of trust," Boris Shmelev, the head of the Center for Foreign Policy at the Russian Institute of Economics, told Sputnik in response to Washington's latest claims that Moscow violated the "spirit and intent" of a key Cold War era arms control agreement.
France strongly condemns a twin bombing in the Syrian capital's Bab Mousalla district and stresses the need to respect a ceasefire regime in the war-torn country, the French Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
UK Foreign Secretary blamed on Sunday the Russian authorities for possible plotting the 2016 assassination of then Prime Minister and overthrowing his government.
On March 10, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Moscow. This was Erdogan's second visit after the normalization of relations between the two countries.
Falling back on the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules in case a post-Brexit UK-EU free trade deal is not secured would cause a major shock to the country's economy, a Treasury report, leaked by media on Sunday, said.
Over the past few years millions of people have been forced to leave Syria, a country still gripped by war. Thousands of Russian-speaking women were living in Syria with their husbands and hundreds of them stayed behind when the conflict erupted. Sputnik correspondent Mikhail Alaeddin met with one such family residing in Damascus.
On Tuesday, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russia is conducting tests of an advanced long-range surface-to-air guided missile.
In early March, world famous British street artist Banksy opened the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem.
The European Union puts on hold some of the EU integration funding for Turkey, European Neighborhood Policy EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn said.
Turkish police officers have detained a man with alleged ties to Anis Amri, who carried out a truck-ramming attack at a Berlin Christmas market.
North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile programs have some analysts worried that the reclusive state may pose a real threat to the rest of the world very soon.