Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Austrian counterpart Karin Kneissl address questions by the press after their bilateral talks in the Russian capital. Lavrov has commented on a request by US President Donald Trump for $500 million in funds to counter “Russian influence” in other countries, stressing that it ...
The US Treasury slapped sanctions Monday on a Russia-based bank partly owned by Venezuela for its support for the government of President Nicolas Maduro and the sanctioned state oil company PDVSA. The sanctions targeted Moscow-based Evrofinance Mosnarbank, which when founded in 2011 was 50 percent-owned by leading Russian banks and ...