Russian diplomat concerned over worsening situation in Mosul
The Russian side calls on the participants on the Mosul liberation operation to spare no effort to prevent sufferings of the civilian population, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today. Moscow “supports the Iraqi government’s resolute steps to restore the constitutional order across the entire territory of the country and exterminate the hotspot of international terrorism represented by Islamic State (a...
Russian diplomat points out EU refusal to establish contacts with Eurasian Economic Union
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the EU could work together meaningfully, but Brussels is unwilling to establish contacts, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Nebenzya said at an international conference in Minsk, organized by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry together with the UN Economic Commission for Europe. “We have been long calling on the EU to work together in order to form a united economic space. We are still...
Russian diplomat does not rule out Ukraine may provoke another gas crisis with EU
Ukraine may provoke another crisis in gas relations between Moscow and the European Union if it steals Russian gas meant for transit to Europe in the wintertime, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said on Monday. “To live through a winter normally, there are calculations of how much gas is to be pumped to storage facilities in the summertime,” he said. “I’d refrain from citing...
Russian diplomat says authorities in Ukraine losing trust of regions
Deterioration of the social-economic situation in Ukraine leads to aggravation of the relations between the central authorities and regions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday. “A rapid deterioration of the social-economic situation in Ukraine causes great concerns and leads to alarming but objective tendencies,” Zakharova said. “The talk is that the central authorities are losing the...
Diplomat: Russian-US tension stems from failure to separate Syria terrorists, opposition
The reason for the tension between Russia and the US over Syria is that “the Americans have been unable to effectively separate the terrorists from the moderates”, Russia’s ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said in an interview with the Brussels-based media platform EurActiv. “Russia and the United States, for all the difficulties and complications over the multi-sided conflict in Syria, have been able to agree...
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