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According to a Russian senator, the European Union is preparing for negotiations on the procurement of the Russian drug against the coronavirus "Sputnik V", despite the "fable about the vaccine failure" as an export product

On February 26, Biden stated that the United States would never recognize the annexation of Crimea. "It is indeed impossible to recognise the annexation of Crimea. Nobody talks about her because it did not take place," Peskov told reporters on March 1. Peskov stressed that the reunification of Crimea with Russia took place in strict accordance with all norms of international law. On February 26, Bidens statement was published on the website of the White House website, in which he calls Crimea ...

Ukraine leader imposes sanctions against pro-Russian media Reuters 03/02/2021 By Pavel Polityuk By Pavel Polityuk KYIV, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has imposed sanctions against several opposition-supporting television and media companies his government accuses of being financed by Moscow and a Russian-leaning politician. A presidential decree, published late on Tuesday, said "special economic and other restrictive measures" would be imposed aga...

Putin Silent on Washington Unrest as Russian Foreign Ministry Calls U.S. Electoral System Archaic Updated: A rampaging mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. EPA / TASS President Vladimir Putin made no statement on the unprecedented chaos in the United States when he spoke briefly with journalists after attending an Orthodox Christmas service, while Russias Foreign Ministry said the U.S electoral process is archaic ...

Lower house approves law on blocking web resources for censorship of Russian media The scope of the draft document includes YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, allowing the media watchdog to partially or fully restrict access to these resources © photobyphotoboy/Shutterstock/FOTODOM MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. The State Duma (lower house of parliament) approved a draft law granting the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media the right to b...

The full scope on it, is actually possible. we also dont know what the definition of blackmail is, that he denied to the president, i am sure where that question will be chb . i am sure the democrats will look into this and see if there is anything that they can sink their teeth into. i think the way flynn resigned, its more of a distraction than anything else. and he understood how big a distraction it was, and that is why he resigned. if they find something else about it, they will be thrilled...

Commentator, ben ferguson. lets start with you, mo. general flynn may have gone but is it over for him? democrats are going to want to make hay out of this. there are already inquiries to the links. general flynn could end up giving evidence later on. >> this is inevitable, the democrats dont have whatever leverage in congress so they have to use whatever is available to them and so this kind of fell into their lapse. and all of this discussion about russia in our politics, now you have the offi...

And i had heard later on in the evening just a few hours ago that his status was quote, a gray area. michael as you know from observing what happens here in washington for many years once a top official in the administration gets to that point where the president cannot express he has full confidence in that individual its pretty difficult to walk that back. and for that person to once again have the confidence of the president. and so it did become an untenable situation. now we can tell you th...

Vladimir putin. that drew criticism about his judgment. of course there are more questions about his judgment now leading to this resignation. but there has been a bit of reaction so far not from the kremlin, youre right, its too early for them yet. but a senior russian official, alexei pushkov, has indicated its not with flynn, but that indicates there are scandals taking place at the moment which is the relationship that trump has tried to forge with russia, the bettering of that relationship ...

Sides and have been up until now, and the issue of nato expansion, which russia has repeatedly expressed its concern over. and so there is a whole range of issues they can discuss. theyre also undoubtedly going to discuss when that first face-to-face meeting is going to be between donald trump and president putin of russia. there has been a great deal of anticipation here in russia about that meeting, one leading lawmaker here alexei pushkov says the first meeting could be a defining moment in h...