Policy set for OSCE mission to Ukraine - Lavrov
MOSCOW, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Foreign Ministry has formulated policy with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on sending a mission to Ukraine, including visits
Sanctions against Russia irrational, create barriers for normal contacts - Lavrov
MOSCOW, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - Sanctions against Russia are irrational, they just create obstacles to normal contacts, says Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Russian upper house adopts statement over US, EU sanctions against Russia
MOSCOW, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - At its extraordinary meeting Federation Council upper house of Russian parliament has adopted a statement over U.S., EU sanctions against several Russian state offici
Thanks to Valery Gergiev Russian opera comes to fashion in China, critics say
MOSCOW, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - Opera “Eugene Onegin” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky jointly staged by the Mariinsky Theatre and the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts premiered triumphantly in B
Thailand Constitutional Court cancels parliamentary election results
BANGKOK, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - The penal of Thailand’s Constitutional Court has found invalid elections in the National Assembly, the kingdom’s parliament, held on February 2 and annulled election
RF hopes ill-considered steps by sextet partners to cause no harm to Iranian settlement
NITED NATIONS, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russia hopes that ill-considered steps by some of its partners in the sextet of international mediators (five permanent UN member-states plus Germany) will not
Ban meets Putin, voices concern over events in Ukraine
MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - At his meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, March 20, U.N.
It is unclear yet whether Ukraine applies officially for withdrawal from CIS
MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - It is unclear yet whether Ukraine applied officially for withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at
Four Russian journalists refused entry to Ukraine
KIEV, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Four Russian journalists were refused to cross the Ukrainian border allegedly for failing to state the purpose of their visit to the country or having insufficient fina
Russian State Duma considers US, EU sanctions on Russia absurd, unreal
GENEVA, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - The State Duma, lower house of parliament, considers the US and the EU sanctions in response to Crimea’s accession to Russia absurd and unreal.
