
Nikolai Korchunov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large for international Arctic cooperation, accused in his comment to Sputnik on Thursday Washington of turning the Arctic into a theater of military operations, refuting US claims that Russia was acting aggressively there as “groundless.” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed earlier this ...

The Kremlin has an extremely negative stand on all ultimatums, including Washington’s calls on Turkey to abandon the deal on buying Russian S-400 air defense systems, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. “We are extremely negative about it. We believe that such ultimatums are inadmissible,” Peskov told reporters, when ...