3 week agoRussian Ambassador @RussiaUN Vassily Nebenzia pushes back @OPCW discussions on the uses of chemical weapons in Syria at UN Security Council meeting
3 week agoUS-Russia NewSTART @StateDept Spox @nedprice: "It is manifestly in our interest to have a full 5year extension..So too will we hold Russia to account for its reckless and its adversarial behavior" @CBSNews/UN & @USAmbCD
"I think it's pretty factual to say they are tools of propaganda who work on behalf of the Russian government," says @PressSec when asked about RT and Sputnik by @SebastianAFP
Russia should "swiftly release" Trevor Reed and Paul Whelan, says @PressSec
3 week agoRussian air strikes are still continuing in the western countryside of Idlib. More than one warplane overhead
3 week agoRussian air strikes on the outskirts of Armanaz town in the western countryside of Idlib
3 week agoMil Mi-35M attack helicopter of the Russian Air Force armed with 9M120 Ataka ATGMs at the Qamishli Airport in northeastern Syria
3 week ago"Extending the New START Treaty ensures we have verifiable limits on Russian ICBMs, SLBMs, and heavy bombers until February 5, 2026," says @SecBlinken
3 week ago[email protected] welcomes officials extension of NewSTART. "NATO Allies believe the New START Treaty contributes to international stability"
3 week ago[email protected] editor-in-chief Sergei Smirnov is sentenced to 25 days in custody for retweeting a joke about himself. Police suggested that the tweet was a direct call for unsanctioned protests
The United States supports sanctions imposed on Ukraine against pro-Russian TV channels
Blinken: Washington will seize the five-year opportunity to work with Russia on arms control, including all nuclear weapons
[email protected] announces that the US has extended a key nuclear arms control treaty with Russia for 5 years, says "extending the New START Treaty makes the United States, US allies and partners, and the world safer. An unconstrained nuclear competition would endanger us all
In Hungary where Orban is pushing Russian Sputnik-V and Chinese Sinopharm vaccines doctors in Hungarian BMA - the Hungarian Medical Chamber - "cannot recommend the use of these products to its colleagues in good conscience"
Lavrov said media coverage of demonstrations in Russia and the West demonstrates obvious double standards
The Kremlin: The police response to the protests against the arrest of "Navalny" is justified
Navalny's coordinator in Yaroslavl, Yelena Lekiashvili, has been detained
France will not interfere in Germany's decision on Nord Stream 2: Foreign Minister
3 week agoIndia will receive the first S-400 air defense regiment by the end of 2021, Vladimir Drozhzhov, deputy head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of Russia, told Interfax. He said that Indian specialists arrived in Russia in January and began training to work with this system.
Vladivostok-Moscow flight landed at Nizhnevartovsk due to a medical emergency
The Indian government has decided to buy 21 MiG-29 fighters from Russia and upgrade another 59 such aircraft, Vladimir Drozhzhov, Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia, told Interfax
3 week agoThree firefighters died when extinguishing a car market in Krasnoyarsk
3 week agoLaunch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the spacecraft of the Ministry of Defense
4 week agoA crowd of protesters is walking along Petrovka towards Kuznetsky Most, chanting Moscow, come out. Video: Mediazona
4 week agoThis person yelled something at the policemen from his taxi window, so they surrounded the car, dragged him and the driver out, and beat them both up. via @meduzaproject
4 week agoVideo as policeman hits a journalist with a baton
4 week agoVideo: police stopped to use taser as only scene of detention being filmed. Nevsky Avenue in St.Petesrburg
4 week agoIn Moscow, the correspondent of "Important Stories", Katya Arenina, and two journalists from "The Bell", Leru Pozychanyuk and Nastya Stogney, were detained
4 week agoIn Dmitrovsky lane, security forces use special equipment, in particular, batons, the correspondent of Novaya reports
4 week agoTense situation at Dmitrovsky lane
4 week agoPolice beat and detain protesters in Moscow
4 week agoNavalny's chief of staff @leonidvolkov says the movement is fully prepared to keep fighting. "We understand that everything is just beginning. We understand what our task is. This is the moment of our enormous moral superiority. The whole country has witnessed Putin's fear"
4 week agoOVD Info: 503 detained today in Moscow and St.Petersburg
4 week agoA large column of protesters is walking along Petrovka in Central Moscow. Video: Rain
4 week agoProtest at "Bolshaya Dmitrovka" street in Moscow
4 week agoProtesters walk along Stoleshnikov Lane from Tverskaya towards Petrovka
Someone gets carried away and thumped in the back by police at Pushkin Square in Moscow
4 week agoThe protesters are on to the Neglinnaya street chant "Moscow go out!"
Incredible numbers of police trucks in central Moscow near Red Square
4 week agoDetentions at Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow
4 week agoIn St. Petersburg - about 20 detainees, people gathered in front of the metro station "Gostiny Dvor", soon they were driven out of there. Video: Mediazona
4 week agoProtesters chant "Send Putin to the Hague!"
4 week ago"Navalny", "Let him go", "Freedom to Navalny" - chants at the Bolshoi Theater. Video: Daria Kozlova / "Novaya Gazeta"
4 week agoSecurity forces at Lubyanka
4 week agoPeople continue to walk around the city center. They chant: "One for all and all for one." Video: Serafima Sverdlova / "Novaya Gazeta"
4 week agoSupporters of Navalny in Moscow walk along Bolshaya Nikitskaya. Video: Readovka / Telegram
Josep Borrell:The sentencing of Alexey @navalny runs counter Russia's international commitments on rule of law & fundamental freedoms. It goes against the verdict of ECHR, which ruled this case arbitrary and unreasonable. I call for his immediate release
[email protected] says national security team will finish its review of Russian actions (reported bounties, SolarWinds, Navalny jailing) before launching policy process to determine what steps the administration will take to respond
Jen Psaki: We call on Moscow to immediately release Navalny and all other detainees
4 week agoSecurity officials block the passage to Okhotny Ryad street near the restaurant "The country which does not exist" Video: Daria Kozlova / "Novaya Gazeta"
4 week agoDetentions on Okhotny Ryad in Moscow
President Macron: The sentence of Alexei @Navalny is unacceptable. Political disagreement is never a crime. We call for his immediate release. Respect for human rights like that of democratic freedom are not negotiable
4 week agoNavalny's supporters and journalists are pushed out of Revolution Square in Moscow
4 week agoDetentions at Gostiny Dvor in St.Petersburg. Foto: Elena Lukyanova, Novaya Gazeta
4 week agoAt the corner of Mokhovaya and Tverskaya street, security officials ask to disperse: "Your action is not authorized"
4 week agoFirst detentions at Manezhnaya Square
Germany Foreign Minister and British Foreign Office calls Russian government to release Navalny
4 week agoHeavy police and RosGuard deployment at Manezhnaya and Red squares in Moscow
4 week agoAnticipating protests, Russian riot police set blockades at the Palace Square in Saint Petersburg
4 week agoMeanwhile Alexei Navalny's brother Oleg, his aides Lyubov Sobol and Kira Yarmysh and others are to be criminally charged in the "coronavirus" case on protests
4 week agoUS "deeply concerned by Russian authorities' decision to sentence opposition figure Aleksey Navalny to two years and eight months imprisonment, replacing his suspended sentence with jail time," says @SecBlinken in a statement
In Moscow, Russia, @Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation @fbkinfo announced an immediate start of a protest rally in the city centre, against the imprisonment of Alexey Navalny
Foreign Minister @HeikoMaas: "Today's verdict against Alexey @Navalny is a bitter blow against fundamental freedoms & the rule of law in Russia. Already in 2017, the ECHR criticized criminal prosecution in this case as arbitrary. Alexey Navalny must be released immediately
Alexey Navalny sentenced to 3.5 years in prison
Top U.S. nuclear commander: "There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons," Adm. Richard warns "nuclear employment is a very real possibility"
Today's launch of Soyuz2.1b with a military satellite from Plesetsk is according the rumors scheduled for 23:45 MSK (20:45 UTC). The backup launch window is February 3, 23:31 MSK (20:31 UTC)
4 week agoRussian air strikes are circling on the outskirts of Harbanoush and Sheikh Bahr in Idlib countryside
4 week agoRiot police deployed at "Dvortsovaya square" in St.Petersburg
Navalny's lawyer: Many called Navalny's poisoning political Chernobyl. He ends his speech with a quote from HBO's Chernobyl: Dyatlov and no one in the room that night knew that the shutdown button (of the reactor) would serve as a detonator
4 week agoRussian warplanes carried out 3 air strikes near Harbanush - Kafr Uruq in the north of Idlib. No casualty information reported
4 week agoRussian warplanes target with missiles around the village of Qurqaniya in the northern countryside of Idlib. Syria, Idlib
4 week agoThe correspondent of "TV Rain" Vasily Polonsky was detained near the Moscow City Court. Video: Avtozak LIVE
Kremlin: if Borrell carries a tough message about Navalny to Russia, he will receive the same answer
4 week ago237 people including members of the press were detained in Moscow in the area of Moscow' city court
Russian MFA's Maria Zakharova condemns presence of 20 foreign diplomats at today's Navalny trial. Describes it as an "illegal attempt of collective West to contain Russia. or is it an attempt to put psychological pressure on the judge?"
4 week agoEven a person with a sign saying "Navalny's a thief." was detained
Russian Federal Penitentiary Service demands from the court to send Alexei Navalny to the prison for 3.5 years
4 week agoOVD Info reports 99 detained near Moscow court amid Navalny trial
4 week agoToday 02 February 2021: The return flight of the Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 RA-85042 from eastern Libya to Latakia in Syria 24 hours after landing at Al-Khadim Air base south of Marj, it appeared on radar near the airspace of Al-Khadim base at 01:33 UTC
4 week agoTwo journalists from the Mash channel that tried to explain away Putin's palace have been detained
4 week agoNew detentions at the Moscow City Court. Video: Masha Borzunova / Rain
4 week agoIn Moscow, Russia, police detain people exiting Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad metro station, the nearest to the Moscow city court where opposition politician @Navalny is on "trial" today. People are being detained for simply being in the area
4 week agoAlexey Navalny is in court room
4 week agoPro-Kremlin activist Gosha Tarasevich, who always tries to disrupt protests, points to people for police to arrest
4 week agoFSB reported on the detention of weapons manufacturers in the Kuban and Rostov region
4 week agoSota Vision correspondent detained near Moscow City Court
Several of the big EU member states are working on the first sanctions under the new human rights sanction regime. the sanctions are balanced geographically and could be presented in March but this might be speeded up depending on what happens with Navalny today
4 week agoFirst Detentions at the Moscow City Court. Photo: Vladimir Tereshkov / RTVI
4 week agoThe diplomatic vehicles of the British and Bulgarian embassies arrived at the Moscow City Court, where the Navalny case is being considered. Representatives of Switzerland, Latvia, Bulgaria, Poland, Austria are already in court. Video: RIA Novosti
Another report says one police van contains 23 people detained outside Moscow city court
