U. S. Ambassador Nikki Haley warned Wednesday that the Trump administration will take action against chemical attacks in Syria that bear “all the hallmarks” of President Bashar Assad’s government if the U.N. Security Council fails to act. Haley urged the council at an emergency meeting to immediately approve a resolution drafted by the U.S., Britain … Read more
New York medical examiners investigating the mysterious death of a Russian diplomat are contradicting the police conclusions in the case. Sergei Krivov, a 63-year-old security officer, was found dead on the morning of Election Day – November 8 – at the Russian Consulate in New York. Initially, the New York Police Department ruled that the … Read more
Russia’s embassy in Damascus was hit by a mortar shell on Thursday afternoon, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. The blast caused no casualties, Zakharova said in a statement on the ministry’s website. The embassy had been hit by shells twice on Wednesday. The ministry said the attacks were a provocation aimed at derailing … Read more
The Russian government said Thursday that it maintained contact with representatives from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns. The assertion comes after Trump was repeatedly accused by the Clinton camp of having overly close ties to the Russian regime, connections that Trump consistently denied. “During this entire period, we not only sent some signals … Read more
For more than two decades, Russia has been trying to regain its Soviet-era economic influence in Africa, but such efforts have regularly hit stumbling blocks. Policy experts and Russian authorities attribute this to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities on the continent. “As before, we cannot deny that Russian business structures have insufficient knowledge … Read more
For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to regain its Soviet-era economic influence, but such efforts have hit stumbling blocks which policy experts and Russian authorities themselves admittedly attributed to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities in Africa. Quite recently, Keir Giles, an associate fellow (on the Russia and Eurasia Program) at … Read more