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January 19, 2020

Britain’s Johnson warns Putin over Skripal poisoning

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday used his first official meeting with Vladimir Putin to warn the Russian leader not repeat the 2018 chemical attack that almost killed former spy Sergei Skripal. Downing Street said Johnson told the Kremlin…
January 19, 2020

Russian activists take aim at Putin in march against repression

More than a thousand opposition activists of various stripes marched in central Moscow on Sunday after President Vladimir Putin proposed re-drafting the constitution, unleashing political upheaval. Protesters — mostly young anti-fascist activists — chanted “Revolution” and “No to dictatorship” and…
January 19, 2020

Putin says ‘transition’ crucial after political shake-up

President Vladimir Putin has said he does not want Russia to return to the Soviet-era practice of rulers dying in office without a succession plan, as speculation swirls over his future after he unleashed a political upheaval this week. The…
January 18, 2020

Russia strike kill five civilians in northwest Syria: monitor

An air strike Saturday by Syrian regime ally Russia killed five civilians, including four members of the same family, in an opposition bastion in the country’s northwest, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three children were…
January 17, 2020

Erdogan to discuss ‘troubling’ Idlib situation with Putin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he would discuss the latest attacks in northwestern Syria with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Berlin this weekend. “I intend to discuss these extensively with Mr Putin in Berlin. The current developments in…
January 17, 2020

Libya peace conference documents nearly ready: Russia

Russia’s acting foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that documents for a Libya peace conference were nearly ready but the war-scarred country’s rivals refused to speak to each other. World powers are preparing to hold a peace summit in…
January 17, 2020

Moscow says Polish resistance army killed Jews in WWII Warsaw

Russia’s defence ministry on Friday accused the Polish resistance movement that staged the Warsaw uprising of 1944 of “destroying Jews,” the latest in Moscow’s feud with Poland over WWII history. The accusations were posted with a trove of declassified documents…
January 17, 2020

Russia’s Lavrov calls for US-Iran de-escalation

Russia’s acting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday urged Iran and the United States to wind down tensions after Iranian forces accidentally downed a Ukrainian passenger jet. Lavrov said the tragedy was a “very serious red flag” and a signal…
January 16, 2020

Netanyahu hopeful for US-Israeli’s release after Putin call

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he was optimistic an Israeli-American woman jailed in Russia would be released, after a phone call with President Vladimir Putin. The case of Naama Issachar, who was convicted on drug charges, has raised…

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