Moscow has appointed a new ambassador to Ankara, six months after the killing of Russia’s previous envoy Andrei Karlov. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday, appointing Alexei Yerkhov as Moscow’s new ambassador to Turkey. “Alexei Yerkhov shall be appointed Russia’s new ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the ...
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov condemned the United States on Monday for shooting down a Syrian warplane, describing it as an act of aggression. “This strike has to be seen as a continuation of America’s line to disregard the norms of international law,” Ryabkov told journalists in Moscow, according ...