Facing mounting pressure at home, UK Prime Minister Theresa May took aim at Russia, accusing it of the tried and trusted sins of endangering global security, election meddling, hacking attacks and spreading fake news, in what seems a desperate lunge for support.more
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin informally met on the sidelines of a regional economic summit in Vietnam Saturday and agreed to an extensive statement on the conflict in Syria.more
"The Observer" reported yesterday that at least three former or current high-ranking officials of the British Foreign Ministry, including current Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, were among those investigated by the FBI for interfering with Russia's US election.more
The two social media giants will face the Electoral Commission amid suggestions Russian-backed companies interfered with the US presidential election, The Times reported on Thursday.more
Exasperated U.S. senators harshly criticized representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Google at a hearing on Tuesday for not doing more to prevent Russian agents interfering with the American political process as early as 2015.more
Boris Johnson has called for soul-searching over how "we lost Russia", admitting that the West may share some blame for deteriorating relations with Moscow.more
The British authorities have rejected Russia's extradition request for Georgy Shuppe, once a son-in-law of Russian fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky.more
A three-year-old boy, who accidentally slipped his hand into a cage with a wolf, was bitten by an animal. The accident took place in the ZOO Lea Bañn in Barnaule in the Altai.more
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a veteran businessman and a former spy, meet in person for the first time on Friday in the most highly anticipated encounter on the sidelines of the G20 summit.more
Britain has urged Russia to continue investigating the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov as responsibility for the killing "goes further" than the five men convicted on Thursday.more
EU leaders on Thursday extended sanctions against Russia for another six months, amid concerns that the so-called Minsk peace process between Moscow and Kiev, which France and Germany helped to broker, is currently dead-locked. French President Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel briefed their colleagues during Thursday's summit in Brussels.more
Last week NATO monitored a very large number of Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea, NATO reported, answering the question of trying to intercept the plane with the Russian defense minister.more
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, commented that since the beginning of the past decade, Europe and Russia are moving away from each other.more
French President Emmanuel Macron is holding his first face-to-face talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin near Paris, amid tensions over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
They met at the ornate Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles. Mr Macron said he expected some tough words.more
On Sunday, during an interview with CBS "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said the United States would have to react if Russia made a cyberattack.more