Russia has ended an arrangement dating back to 1991 that allowed Japanese citizens to visit the Kuril Islands without a visa, and has broken off talks with Japan on formally ending the Second World War, citing Tokyo’s “openly unfriendly” conduct in sanctioning Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. Due to ...
State Department Spokesman Ned Price said on Monday that the US and Russia will keep their diplomatic missions in each other’s countries open, and will maintain deconfliction channels. Earlier, Moscow summoned the American ambassador over President Joe Biden’s “unacceptable” comments on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, warning that relations with ...