MOSCOW - Moscow and Beijing lashed out on Friday at Washington's new anti-Russian sanctions that also target China for the first time, warning the United States could face consequences. The United States is "playing with fire", Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said, while Beijing ...

MOSCOW – Russia has lashed out against United States over fresh sactions. Russia on Friday called a new wave of US sanctions misguided, saying Washington’s habit of using sanctions against Moscow risked undermining global stability and was part of a dangerous game. The Trump administration ...

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday showed off his marksmanship by testing out a new Kalashnikov sniper rifle and hitting the target more than half the time. Russian state television showed Putin in goggles and earphones crouching as he fired the silver rifle at the ...

MOSCOW: Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng met with Russian President Vladimir Putin here on Tuesday, vowing to further enhance coordination and cooperation so as to promote bilateral ties. Noting that bilateral ties are at their best time in history, Han said China-Russia ties have maintained ...

MOSCOW - Russia and Israel have come face to face in Syria after shooting down of Russian plane over Syria airspace. Russia has accused Israel of indirectly causing a Russian military plane to be shot down near Syria's Mediterranean coast and threatened to retaliate against Israel for what it ...

MOSCOW - Russia’s military aircraft with 14 people on board disappeared from radar screens over Syria at the same time that Israeli and French forces were mounting aerial attacks on targets in Syria. A US official said Washington believed the aircraft, which is an Il-20 turbo-prop plane used ...

MOSCOW - Russia says the United States prefers to act solely in the Taliban reconciliation process and does not take into account the interests of Afghanistan's regional partners and neighbors. In an interview with Turkish official news agency Anadolu, Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan, ...

MOSCOW: Moscow is ready to do what it can to break the impasse in relations between Russia and the United States, and is taking seriously President Donald Trump’s willingness to forge a normal dialogue, though anti-Russia sentiment in the U.S. establishment was a hindrance, Foreign Minister ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed signing a World War II peace treaty with Japan by the end of the year without preconditions. During a session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russian President said we have been trying to solve the territorial dispute for ...

MOSCOW - Russia and China have decided to ditch dollar in their bilateral trade giving a blow to US. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Moscow and Beijing plan to use their own national currencies more often in trade deals as Russia's relations with the West deteriorate. “The ...