🇷🇺 Russia · International, Culture & entertainment
119 storiesLavrov arrives in Turkmenistan for CIS foreign ministers meeting
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Turkmenistan on 6 October to take part in a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers, according to RIA Novosti, TASS and Interfax. Interfax reported the ministerial meeting is schedul…
Kremlin: Putin-Xi meeting at APEC confirmed; Putin-Trump-Xi idea not yet worked out
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said practical preparation for a possible meeting between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the APEC summit has not begun, though he called the idea interesting and said all three leaders know of it. U…
Putin to visit Turkmenistan on Oct 8–9 for CIS summit, Caspian ecological talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a working visit to Turkmenistan on October 8–9, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said. He will attend a CIS heads-of-state meeting and the Caspian Ecological Summit in the Avaza tourist zone near Tur…
Putin to meet Iran's Pezeshkian on October 9 in Turkmenistan
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said President Vladimir Putin will hold a bilateral meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on October 9 in Turkmenistan, after the other events of Putin's trip. Ushakov said the two leaders would discuss …
Lebanon foreign minister's Moscow visit being prepared, Russia says
Russia's Foreign Ministry said a visit to Moscow by Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raji is being worked out. Earlier on Tuesday, Lebanese and Russian outlets reported that Raji had discussed preparations for the trip with Russia's ambass…
FT: EU draft would limit Ukraine’s farm market access and subsidies upon joining
The European Commission has proposed significantly limiting Ukraine’s access to EU agricultural markets and farm subsidies if Kyiv joins the bloc, according to an internal document reported by the Financial Times. The EU spends up to €55 bi…
EU's Kallas says Transnistria will not block Moldova's EU accession
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said at a Brussels press conference that the unresolved Transnistrian conflict will not be an obstacle to Moldova's integration into the European Union. She said the situation in the region remains fragil…
Kremlin aide says no concrete agreements on Pashinyan visit to Russia
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Russia has no concrete agreements with Armenia on a possible visit by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Moscow, and that no diplomatic contacts on the matter have taken place yet. The remarks, car…
Variety: studio Neon plans to submit Yura Borisov for a Best Actor Oscar
Variety reported that actor Yura Borisov is planned to be submitted for an Academy Award in the Best Actor category, with the studio Neon behind the campaign, according to TASS. The role cited is that of OpenAI co-founder Sutskever in the f…
Presidential aide Ushakov says no Putin-Pashinyan meeting planned in Turkmenistan
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is not planned in Turkmenistan, according to RIA Novosti and TASS. Interfax reported Ushakov also said a Pash…
Lavrov says Russia welcomes East Timor's plans to open embassy in Moscow
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow welcomes plans by East Timor to open an embassy in the Russian capital and will support the move. He spoke at a press conference following talks with East Timorese Foreign Minister Bendito …
Soviet and Russian actor Vasily Popov dies at 78
Vasily Popov, a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor known for roles in “Ataka” and “Okhota na lis”, has died at 78, TASS and Vedomosti reported. The Novomoskovsk branch of the Tula Academic Drama Theatre named after M. Gorky announced…
Mexico halts fuel supplies to Cuba under US sanctions threat
Mexico has stopped supplying oil and petroleum products to Cuba through state company Pemex after Washington threatened sanctions, according to TASS, Vedomosti and Kommersant, citing El Universal and Pemex filings with the US SEC. Pemex sto…
Putin says Russia-Uzbekistan ties advance, praises regions council
Russian President Vladimir Putin said relations with Uzbekistan are developing successfully in the spirit of strategic partnership and alliance, in a telegram greeting published on the Kremlin website. The message went to participants, orga…
Lavrov says he follows NATO conflict-plan reports philosophically
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he follows reports that NATO is drafting a plan for a possible military conflict with Russia “philosophically,” adding that “today they say one thing, tomorrow another.” He repeated that NATO call…
Russian photographer Boris Kavashkin, chronicler of Soviet-era events, dies at 81
Boris Kavashkin, a Russian photographer who covered the war in Afghanistan and the 1993 storming of the White House, has died at the age of 81, TASS reported. His son Anton Kavashkin told TASS that he died on 4 October of natural causes, ac…
Lavrov says Putin made clear Russia's response to an attack on Kaliningrad
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said President Vladimir Putin had clearly made clear what Russia's response would be in case of an attack, speaking at a press conference in Moscow after talks with East Timor's foreign minister. Russi…
Russia's MFA pledges proportionate response to new Japanese sanctions
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Moscow will take proportionate countermeasures to Japan's new sanctions, aimed at areas of interest to Japan, spokesperson Maria Zakharova said. The measures, announced by Tokyo on 2 October, cover 33 Russian …
British composer George Fenton, who wrote music for Groundhog Day, dies at 76
British composer George Fenton, who wrote the music for the film “Groundhog Day”, has died at the age of 76, RBC and TASS reported. Kommersant said the BBC reported the death citing a statement from his family and that the cause was not dis…
Actor Vasily Popov dies at 78; stroke named as cause of death
Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor Vasily Popov died on 3 October at the age of 78, according to the press service of the Novomoskovsk branch of the Tula Academic Drama Theatre. TASS and RIA Novosti reported that the cause of death w…