Illustration: Rebecca Zisser / Axios The U.S. is moving to withdraw from Open Skies, a 1992 treaty that allows NATO countries and Russia to surveil one another from the air to prevent the risk of military conflict. Why it matters: This … Read More
BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:40 A.M.) – A heavily-armed U.S. military convoy entered northeastern Syria this week to expand one of their bases inside the Al-Hasakah Governorate. Citing military sources, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that as many as … Read More
Living standards are expected to be the main victim of the coronavirus recession. The real number of those out of work could be four times higher than official figures.Kirill Zykov / Moskva News Agency Russia’s official level of unemployment has … Read More
Watching Putin mark Victory Day, from a Dacha near Moscow. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Russia’s surging coronavirus epidemic is now the world’s second-largest, behind the United States. What to watch: As Russia becomes a new epicenter, President Vladimir Putin appears almost … Read More
Vladimir Putin wants a stable Syria, with billions from abroad for his oligarch cronies to rebuild the country. But Assad’s infamy and the ayatollahs stand in the way. GAZIANTEP, Turkey—After five years of fighting to preserve Bashar al-Assad’s regime in … Read More
‘In line with the Russian military doctrine, such actions are seen as warranting retaliatory use of nuclear weapons by Russia’ The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia (photo credit: REUTERS/MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST … Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday commemorating a 1945 World War Two link-up of U.S. and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as … Read More
Sergei Ryabkov Tehran (ISNA) – Russia is concerned by the US threats to Iran amid tensions in the Persian Gulf and is calling on both sides to exercise restraint, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Saturday. According to … Read More
Bilateral economic and trade cooperation between China and Russia remains sound in the long term, despite the pneumonia outbreak temporarily affecting certain industries. A staff member walks past pipelines in a section of the China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline in … Read More
Russia is facing a shortage of beds and doctors after years of medical layoffs and hospital demolitions. In Russia, a new infectious disease hospital is rapidly being built outside Moscow, and extra beds have been added to the existing ones. … Read More