A Russian court on Tuesday extended until late March the pre-trial detention of a US man already held in jail for a year despite Western requests for his release. Paul Whelan, who also has Irish, Canadian and British citizenship, was arrested on December 28 last year for allegedly receiving state ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow is determined to complete the Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream, two nearly-finished major projects of exporting natural gas to Germany and Turkey, respectively, despite the US sanctions. The top Russian diplomat made the remarks during an interview on Russian television on Sunday, stressing ...