Lavrov says US publicly insults Russia regarding Syria
The United States, regarding Syria, even publicly insults Russia, accusing Moscow of “war crimes” despite the fact that the U.S. bombed Yugoslavia’s civilian targets, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview for the documentary “I have made up my mind. Yevgeny Primakov” for Rossiya 1 television channel. “When the greatest patriot of his country, a very experienced politician, a great...
What would 100 days of a Clinton White House look like?
On January 20, 2017, Barack Obama’s successor will take the oath of office on the Capitol steps in Washington for a four-year term. As always, the first 100 days for any American president are paramount. Democrat Hillary Clinton has released a detailed policy platform, but a successful start for an eventual Clinton administration depends on a number of variables — notably who is in control of Congress. “We’ll...
Russia wants US to live up to promise to separate moderate opposition from terrorists
Russia believes that the United States should live up to its promise to separate moderate opposition units from terrorist groups in order to improve the situation in Syria’s Aleppo, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday after a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who is the Russian president’s envoy for the Middle East and Africa, and Wolfgang Gehrcke, a German Bundestag (parliament) deputy, a...
Zakharova: US needs alleged attack on Russian ministry website to hype up cyberwar topic
The United States needs the alleged hack of the Russian foreign ministry’s website to keep afloat the topic of the so-called Russian-US cyber war, an invention from beginning to end, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Monday. On her Facebook account, she drew attention to the fact that Sophia Shin of CNN said the television channel had learnt about the cyberattack on the Russian foreign ministry’s former...
“Russia is ready to open new page in relations with US after elections”
Ex-chief of the Kremlin administration, the Russian president’s special representative for environmental protection, ecology and transport Sergey Ivanov said Russia is ready to build new relations with the United States after the November 8 presidential elections. “We are always ready for real politik,” Ivanov told The Financial Times in an interview. “We are prepared for that. We just have to wait until the end of...