The Moscow Times - Crimea has offered Iran access to its ports as a way for Tehran to avoid Western sanctions on oil exports, a senior official in the annexed regions Kremlin-backed administration told Russian media. Iran is increasingly looking for alternative trade routes to skirt tensions in the Persian Gulf brought on by U.S. sanctions. The ...

IRNA Spokesman for Irans Foreign Ministry Bahram Qasemi extended condolences Thursday to the families of the victims who were killed in an explosion which took place in a college in the city of Kerch, Crimea Peninsula. On October 17, an 18-year-old boy named Vladislav Roslyakov rampaged through the Kerch polytechnic college and killed 19. Some ...

RT - US-sanctioned Iran is interested in doing business with Russia's Crimea, according to the authorities from the Russian region, which is also facing sanctions from Washington and Brussels. The trade route would connect Crimeas ports with Irans Caspian coast via the Volga-Don Canal, Georgy Muradov, Crimea's permanent representative under the ...

Sputnik News- Russia is going to sign a contract with Iran to supply turbines for thermal power plants in Crimea, the CEO of state corporation Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said. During a media briefing inAbu Dhabi, Chemezov announced that Russia plans tosign a contract withIran forthe supply ofturbines forthermal power stations inCrimea. According ...

RT- US President Donald Trump has been tough on Russia and expects Moscow to return the Crimea peninsula to Ukraine, the White House spokesman told reporters. Addressing the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn hounded by the media over his contacts with Russian diplomats prior to Trumps inauguration Spicer pointed out that ...

After Moscows surprising show of force in Ukraine and Crimea, Russians have now taken their northern and Baltic fleets into the Mediterranean in order to defend their interests in Syria. Russias aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which they had already said would remain in Murmansk for overhauls until 2017, along with Peter the Great battlecruiser,...

A drop in global oil prices, driven in part by a boom in U.S. shale oil production, is threatening to hit the economies of energy-exporting Russia and Iran harder than Western economic sanctions have done. Prices have fallen about 20% on world markets since June because of an increase in oil production and an economic slowdown in Asia and Europe. ...

The prevailing crisis in Ukraine following a US-backed coup will remain a stain on the reputation of Western governments, an analyst writes in a column for the Press TV website. The killings in East Ukraine by sending in the Right Sector thugs to do the dirty work will be remembered as an example of Western moral bankruptcy, Jim W. Dean wrote. He ...

[caption id="attachment_91095" align="alignright" width="180"] Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev chairs a government meeting in the Crimean city of Simferopol, March 31, 2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea on Monday by flying to the region and announcing plans to turn it into a special ...

Berlin, March 29, IRNA -- Chinese President Xi Jinping here Friday called for a political settlement of the Crimean crisis. Speaking at a joint news conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Xi stressed his country?s continued ?support for a political and diplomatic solution? to the Ukrainian conflict. He reiterated that China has ?no ...

[caption id="attachment_90653" align="alignright" width="180"] Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu addresses Russian troops deployed at a military base in Sevastopol, Crimea, on March 24, 2014.[/caption] The events unfolding in the wake of Crimeas secession from Ukraine are playing in favor of Russia, to the dismay of the United States, a commentator ...

Russia has imposed sanctions against a number of Canadian officials, lawmakers and public figures in response to Ottawa's bans on Russian authorities over Crimea. This step comes in response to unacceptable actions by the Canadian side which seriously hurt bilateral relations, said Aleksandr Lukashevich, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesman....

ILNA: Crimeas self-defense forces on Wednesday stormed the Ukrainian navyheadquarters in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, taking possession without resistance a day after Russia signed a treaty with local authorities to annex the region. An Associated Press photographer witnessed several hundred self-defense forces take down the gate and make ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Two people, a self-defense member and a Ukrainian soldier, were killed after snipers opened fire from a partially inhabited building near a military research center in Simferopol. One sniper was reportedly detained, another is on the run. As RT producer Lida Vasilevskaya arrived at the scene, the perimeter of the Ukrainian ...

[caption id="attachment_89429" align="alignright" width="180"] Russia has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would invalidate Sunday's referendum in Crimea. In Moscow, demonstrators and military veterans march in support of the Kremlin Saturday; nearby, a large march was held to protest Russia's policies.[/caption] The Russian parliament ...

(CNN)-- An overwhelming 96.7% of Crimea residents voted to break off from Ukraine and join Russia, according to final results of a referendum that has put the United States and Russia on the kind of collision course not seen since the end of the Cold War. Moscow strongly backed Sunday's referendum in the Black Sea peninsula where the majority of the ...

(Reuters) - A top Chinese diplomat repeated Beijing's call for calm and restraint in Ukraine on Monday, but ducked comment on a referendum in Crimea after the region's Moscow-backed leaders declared a 96-percent vote in favor of joining Russia. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong, speaking to reporters ahead of a visit to Europe by President ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The upcoming referendum in Crimea is in full conformity with international law and the UN Charter, and its results must become a starting point in decision on the future of the peninsular, the Facebook page of the Russian Foreign Ministry quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of ...

[caption id="attachment_89429" align="alignright" width="240"] Russia has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would invalidate Sunday's referendum in Crimea. In Moscow, demonstrators and military veterans march in support of the Kremlin Saturday; nearby, a large march was held to protest Russia's policies.[/caption] UNITED NATIONS (AP) ...

(Reuters) - The European Union agreed on a framework on Wednesday for its first sanctions onRussiasince the Cold War, a stronger response to the Ukraine crisis than many expected and a mark of solidarity with Washington in the drive to make Moscow pay for seizing Crimea. U.S. PresidentBarack ObamawarnedRussiait faced costs from the West unless it ...