MUNICH (Sputnik) - UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ghassan Salame told Sputnik on Saturday he had received the invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to visit Moscow.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has completed reconfiguring its land-based missile attack warning system and has patched up all gaps left after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Igor Morozov, deputy chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, said Saturday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Basmanny Court in Moscow decided on Saturday to place US businessman, founder of the company Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey into custody for two months over the Bank Vostochny fraud case, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called on Pakistan to stop providing safe havens for terrorists after the deadly terror attack in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The founder of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, US national Michael Calvey, and five other people were detained in Moscow over suspected large-scale fraud, according to the records of a Moscow court.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Canada will bring from Haiti 113 nationals, who were unable to return to their homeland as protests gripped the Caribbean nation, Francois Legault, the prime minister of Canada’s eastern province of Quebec, said.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Militants of the Daesh terrorist group kidnapped a total of eight civilians in Iraq's western Anbar province, local media reported on Friday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Fitch Ratings said it maintained Russia's issuer default credit rating at BBB- with a positive outlook, citing the country's strong balance sheet and progress in strengthening its economic policy framework.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova mocked on Friday US National Security Adviser John Bolton's tweet that threatened those who "destroy democracy" in Venezuela with "consequences", implying it was the...
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JOHANNESBURG, Rossiya Segodnya Press Office. An exhibition of works by talented young photographers selected by the Andrei Stenin Contest jury opened in Johannesburg, South Africa. The exhibition is part of the 2018 winners’ tour that started in...
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Afghanistan war veterans gathered near the Monument to Soldiers-Internationalists in Moscow to hold a march marking 30 years since the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the Central Asian country.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Nearly 370,000 barrels of crude oil per day, produced by the Venezuelan state-owned PDVSA company, will be left without a market by March due to the US sanctions, imposed on the oil giant amid the Venezuelan political crisis,...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The US State Department said it had ordered the withdrawal of "non-emergency" diplomatic personnel and their family members from Haiti amid violent unrest in the Caribbean nation.
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The successor organization to the Russian KGB pulled strings to help Maria Butina organize a Moscow trip for bigwigs at the National Rifle Association, according to an email published by The Daily Beast. The email was sent by Butina’s...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Nineteen foreign spy aircraft had been detected while carrying out reconnaissance activities near the Russian border, the weekly infographic published by the Russian Armed Forces' official newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda showed on...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sent his condolences to the Indian counterpart, Ram Nath Kovind, after a deadly bomb blast in the Indian-run part of the disputed Kashmir region.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Venezuelan opposition and its backers in the United States planned that President Nicolas Maduro would be forced out in 24 hours after Washington and its allies threw their support behind the self-proclaimed head of state, The...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia may shift focus to China as the main market for its gas supplies if the European Union fails to show genuine interest in properly cooperating with it, which will be equally detrimental to Moscow and Europe, Mario Mehren,...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - BBC Syria producer Riam Dalati, who wrote on Twitter that he could prove the video of the victims of the alleged chemical attack in Douma being treated in hospital was staged, was expressing his own opinion and did not deny the...
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House Democrats are ramping up their investigations into President Donald Trump’s business dealings, and they may haul first daughter Ivanka Trump before Congress to testify about what she knows. Axios reports that House Democrats are...
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