Kazakh Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday the completion of preparations to host the Syrian negotiations under the auspices of Russia, Turkey, Iran and the United Nations. In an interview with Interfax news agency, Mukhtar Tellobrda, first deputy foreign minister, said: “Our country welcomes hosting the negotiations and we are ready to ...
The Kremlin deplored Tuesday the United States’ blacklisting of Russian figures as a move that further damages bilateral ties. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Washington’s decision to blacklist Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin, lawmaker Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, represented “further steps in the artificially created degradation of our ...