Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the crisis in Venezuela could only be solved by getting the authorities and the opposition to talk to each other, the RIA news agency reported. “We continue to believe that the only way to exit this crisis is by sitting the ...
Russia on Monday slammed what it said were attempts to interfere in Venezuela’s domestic affairs after several European countries recognized opposition chief Juan Guaido as interim leader. “Attempts to legitimize usurped power” constituted “interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Such interference, he added, ...