US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke Thursday and agreed to discuss bilateral ties in Manila at the weekend, the Russian ministry said. The countries’ top diplomats spoke as US President Donald Trump warned that bilateral ties are at an all-time and “very dangerous” ...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev lashed new US sanctions as a “full-fledged economic war” on Moscow, saying they crushed hopes for repairing ties and demonstrated President Donald Trump’s “total weakness … in the most humiliating way.” Trump reluctantly signed off on the new sanctions Wednesday, bowing to domestic pressure after ...