Putin, Erdoğan to meet soon in bid to start new era in Turkey-Russia ties
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin may meet in a face-to-face meeting in August as part of mutual efforts to normalize bilateral ties following months of tension due to the downing of a Russian warplane by the Turkish Air Forces in November. Putin called Erdoğan on July 17, a day after Turkish security forces quashed a coup attempt staged by a group of high-ranking officers within the army,...
Portugal assigns great importance to relations with Russia
Relations between Portugal and Russia are developing on the firm basis, and Lisbon assigns great importance to ties with Moscow, Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Monday (July 18). “I am happy to state that relations between Russia and Portugal are developing on the firm basis after we established diplomatic relations,” Silva said at talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. He noted that his...
