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Article “On Victory Day” by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for International Affairs magazine, June 4, 2019

11:23 05.06.2019 Sergey Lavrov

Article “On Victory Day” by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for International Affairs magazine, June 4, 2019

The month of May and the fireworks are now behind us. The country and the world celebrated Victory Day, which is a holiday of war veterans, home front workers, and all the people of Russia and other victorious nations. There was a grand parade on Red Square and a wreath …

Armenia-Iran: good neighbourly relations absolute necessity

11:49 04.06.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

Armenia-Iran: good neighbourly relations absolute necessity

Some experts believe that Iran’s cooperation with Armenia could become costly for the latter owing to the ever increasing hostility demonstrated by US President Donald Trump towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. They predict that American sanctions and extensive pressure on Iran could throw Armenia into a kind of blockade.What …

Fort Ross dialog opened in Vologda

19:12 03.06.2019

Fort Ross dialog opened in Vologda

Fort Ross Dialogue – meetings in Russia is an extension of the series of US – Russia Fort Ross Dialogue conferences established in California in 2012.The event is named after the first Russian settlement established in the territory of modern-day California. The 2017 Dialogue was hosted by ancient Pskov, home …

EAEU at 5: a long way to full integration?

10:25 03.06.2019 Inna Yanikeeva

EAEU at 5: a long way to full integration?

The year 2019 will the mark the five-year anniversary of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and 25 years since the idea of Eurasian integration was first pitched in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. On May 29, Kazakhstan’s current President Kassym-Zhomat Tokayev was meeting in the capital …

Why we should care about Julian Assange?

11:22 02.06.2019 Murray Hunter

Why we should care about Julian Assange?

Why we should care about Julian AssangeBecause next time they come for usMurray HunterWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010 published information provided to him by then-US Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning that comprised nearly 750,000 classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents.Among those documents was a collateral murder …

Will the Schengen zone survive?

12:02 31.05.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Will the Schengen zone survive?

The problem of migration poses one of the major challenges to the future of the European Union. Residents in more than half of EU countries call for establishing a strict control of migration, in some cases, even suggesting a complete ban on migrant movements. Meanwhile, any productive solution to this …

Russia’s Fedor Konyukhov yields new world records

9:26 30.05.2019 Yuri Nemtsev

Russia’s Fedor Konyukhov yields new world records

Photos by Oskar KonyukhovRussian traveler, artist and writer Fedor Konyukhov has completed an expedition in the course of which he sailed a row boat across the South Pacific from New Zealand to South America’s Cape Horn. He has thus covered the final part of the journey he began in 2014, …

Tensions in Kosovo - Russia closely monitors the situation

12:44 29.05.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Tensions in Kosovo - Russia closely monitors the situation

Police of self proclaimed state of Kosovo launched raids in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the Serbs-majority north of Kosovo, sparking an angry reaction from Serbs.More than twenty people have been arrested so far. Among those arrested is the chief of police of the village of Zubin Potok. …

Women in space

12:35 29.05.2019 Yanina Korotkova

Women in space

Crimea: facts & figures

12:34 29.05.2019 Yanina Korotkova

Crimea: facts & figures

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