Moscow warned on Tuesday that UK warships planned passage to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus is aimed at intimidating Russia. A source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik that the West keeps trying to influence Moscow’s policies, but Russia expects non-Black Sea powers to implement the Montreux Convention. ...
The Kremlin has denounced as “provocative and unfriendly” the Czech Republic’s expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats for alleged espionage activity. Authorities in the Czech Republic announced on Saturday that the diplomats would be expelled after the local intelligence identified them as secret agents of the Russian security services who had ...