The United States on Wednesday dramatically broadened sanctions on Russia, including by targeting China-based companies selling semiconductors to Moscow, as part of its effort to undercut the Russian military machine waging war on Ukraine.

Russia has scoffed at the United States’ reaction to the potential issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli officials over Tel Aviv’s Washington-backed war of genocide against the Gaza.

Reuters - Russia and China will be isolated at the United Nations if they continue down the road to dystopia by blocking a U.S. bid to extend a weapons ban on Iran, U.S. Iran envoy Brian Hook told Reuters ahead of his formal pitch of the embargo to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. The 13-year-old arms restrictions on Iran are due to expire ...

Sputnik - In 2018, Russia's relations with Western countries severely deteriorated against the backdrop of numerous scandals and sanctions. In an interview withSputnik onthe eve of2019, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, spoke aboutwhether we should wait forfurther alienation, aboutMoscow's possible response toWashington scrapping ...

RT - Vladimir Putins simple-minded nature is to blame for the growing tensions between the US and Russia, Defense Secretary James Mattis has claimed, flexing his elite Marine Corps analytical skills. The Pentagon chief on Sunday accused Russias president of being aslow learnerwhose irresponsible denseness is creatinganimosity against his people ...

Sputnik - National Security Advisor John Bolton has been holding a series of talks in Moscow with senior Russian officials including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. Speaking inMoscow, Bolton said that Washington's sanctions againstTehran have had an impact onthe global oil market,...

Sputnik - US President Donald Trump said that he will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, media reported. Donald Trump claimed that Russia violates the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty withthe United States, an that he will pull outof it. The treaty was signed in1987 byUSSR an US, which ...

IRNA - Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on Washington to fulfill its international legal obligations and withdraw its forces from Syria, reaffirming that their presence is illegal. In a press conference on Thursday, Zakharova said that the Russian side has credible information that the US forces deployed in al-Tanf area,...

IRNA Tehran and Moscow are strategic allies, a Russian analyst said Saturday, ruling out the possibility of any deal between Kremlin and the White House on Tehran. 'The two countries have developed their cooperation in various fields, particularly on economy and industry,' Head of Center for Political Technologies Sergei Mikheyev told the Islamic ...

Sputnik - The result of the upcoming meeting between Putin and Trump is hard to predict, but there is potential for a thaw in relations between the two states and an in-depth discussion of the Iran nuclear deal, the Syrian and Ukrainian crises, the New START treaty and Pyongyang's denuclearization, politicians and analysts told Sputnik. Putin ...

Iranian Diplomacy- Moderate Iranian news agency Khabar Online has discussed new developments in Syria with university professor and international affairs pundit, Vahid Gharavi. How do you see the tension between Russia and the US on the ground in Syria? During the Syrian crisis, the US and Russia had occasional coordination in the past which ...

Bloomberg | Jonathan Bernstein: At the core of disagreements aboutthe Trump-Russia affair's place in U.S. history is a definitional question: What is a scandal anyway? Scandals are big news, of course, but many had very little direct impact on the world beyond the corruption of some government officials. Failed policies, on the other hand, can directly ...

RT- On this day 12 months ago, Moscow held off from retaliating to Barack Obama's diplomatic parting shot, in hope of a new start. Instead, 2017 has been the worst year of US-Russia relations since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Three weeks before leaving the Oval Office, Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Moscow-owned properties ...

MNA Russian foreign minister says there is little difference between policies of Trump and Obama. The actions of US President Donald Trump's team are similar to the policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview, state-run RIA news agency reported on Thursday. "Unfortunately, many actions ...

Alwaght - The signs of growing chill in the US-Russia relations are on the rise, and the range of challenges troubling bilateral ties of the two powers is broadening day by day. The challenges play out in a range of conflict of views over the ways to deal with the deep-rooted West Asian crises, the American Strategic Air Defense project, and Washington's ...

Financial Tribune- The United States on Thursday ordered Russia to close its consulate in San Francisco and two other installations in two days, a move Moscow greeted with regret, as relations between the nuclear-armed powers took another dive. The State Department said the decision was made in the spirit of parity, after Moscow in July ordered ...

TASS- Russian deputy foreign minister says retaliation over the US sanctions may follow Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov considers the US actions a move towards destruction of prospects for better relations with Russia, he told TASS, commenting on the vote in the US House of Representatives on the bill that tightens unilateral sanctions ...

Press TV - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow may retaliate moves by the United States last year to seize Russian diplomatic premises in America and eject a number of Russian diplomats. The administration of former US president Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered the seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds ...

Press TV- US President Donald Trumps eldest son has hired a lawyer to represent him in the ongoing investigation into his fathers alleged collusion with the Russian government. Trump Jr. hired New York lawyer Alan Futerfas on Monday, shortly after he confirmed a New York Times report about his meeting with a Russian lawyer in the run-up to last ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump brought up allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on the sideline of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, asking him to cut it out, says the American envoy to the United Nations. What he did was bring up right away the election meddling,...