President Vladimir Putin has said Western sanctions against Russia are “harmful for everyone” and it is in everyone’s interests to lift them, BBC reports. Speaking in Austria, he said Russia had restored stable growth, despite the EU and US sanctions first imposed in 2014 after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said his […]
Russia has said any secret resettlement of the spy poisoned in Salisbury and his daughter will be seen as “abduction”. The threat came hours after it was revealed Yulia Skripal has been discharged from hospital, five weeks after she and her father, Sergei Skripal, were found slumped on a bench in central Salisbury on 4 […]
Lt General Evgeny Buzhinsky said diplomatic tensions risk becoming ‘worse than the cold war’ – and claimed the West is trying to overthrow Vladimir Putin’s government. A retired Russian general has warned that the fallout from the Salisbury attack could trigger “the last war in the history of mankind”. Lt General Evgeny Buzhinsky said diplomatic […]
Fugitive Russians in the UK are effectively “hostages” of Western spy agencies, the father of Alexander Litvinenko, an intelligence officer who was poisoned in London a decade ago, told RT, sharing his insight on the Skripal case. Walter Litvinenko used to support the theory of Russia’s involvement in the 2006 poisoning of his son, Alexander, […]
The Russian embassy published a list of 14 questions on Saturday over the nerve agent attack on 4 March. The first question asks: “Why has Russia been denied consular access to the two Russian nationals, Sergei and Yulia Skripal, that have become crime victims in the British territory?” The embassy also repeatedly queries France’s “involvement” […]
Moscow has told Britain it must cut “just over 50” more of its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia in a worsening stand-off over the poisoning of a Russian former spy and his daughter in England, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. Russia has already retaliated in kind against Britain and ejected 23 British diplomats […]
Earlier in the day Moscow had summoned the ambassadors of a number of nations including Britain, France, Germany and Canada to tell them of retaliatory measures. Envoys from Germany, Spain, Holland, Norway and Ireland were all told to leave on Friday as the Kremlin began a tit-for-tat removal of foreign dignitaries, matching the number of […]
Russia expelled four German diplomats, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Friday, as the Kremlin responds in kind to expulsions of its own officials from Western countries standing with Britain over the poisoning of a former agent. “The news from Moscow comes as no surprise,” Maas said in a statement. “Even in the current climate […]
The Russian foreign ministry has expressed a protest to the UK Ambassador to Russia over London’s provocative actions inspiring the expulsion of over 150 Russian diplomats from more than 20 countries. UK authorities have one month to reduce the number of staff at its embassy and consulate in Russia to that of Russia’s diplomatic presence in the United Kingdom, according to the statement […]
More than 20 nations on three continents this week vowed to expel Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England, including the U.S. which is expelling 60 envoys. The United Kingdom earlier this month sent home 23 Russian diplomats — after saying Russia was behind the poisoning of former spy […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May expelled 23 Russian diplomats on Wednesday over the poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil, raising tensions between the two countries to a level not seen since the heights of the Cold War. She vowed to crack down on Russian spies, corrupt elites and ill-gotten wealth in Britain. […]
