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 ...
Certain members of the UN Security Council are still fomenting the conflict in Syria and are seeking to oust the Syrian Bashar Assad’s government rather than ending the war, Russian Envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Tuesday. “Work on Syria inside the Security Council has never been easy. ...