Christodoulides heads to Moscow, meeting Lavrov on Thursday
Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides leaves today from Budapest for Moscow where he is due to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, following an invite from...
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Our View: Damage limitation the only realistic objective in Moscow talks
A delegation from the Cyprus led by Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides will go to Moscow next week for another round of negotiations with the Russian...
Russia initiates scrapping of taxation deal with Cyprus (updated)
By Elias Hazou and Philippe Orphanides Russia’s finance ministry said Monday it would initiate a process to scrap an agreement with Cyprus aimed at avoiding...
Russia preparing mass vaccination against coronavirus for October
Russia’s health minister is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus for October, local news agencies reported on Saturday, after a vaccine completed clinical trials....
Woman tests negative for coronavirus (Update2)
The health ministry said Monday a test to determine whether a Chinese woman had contracted the coronavirus came back negative. “The patient, whose clinical status...
Archbishop calls Russian Patriarch’s attitude to Greek Church ‘unacceptable’
The Patriarch of Moscow’s move to overlook the name of Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece during a divine liturgy on Sunday was...
After Kremlin raises eyebrow, state poll shows Putin’s trust rating surging
Russia’s state pollster on Friday showed public trust in President Vladimir Putin surging to 72.3% under a new methodology for canvassing public opinion that was...
Russia will respond to any ‘US military build-up in Cyprus’ (Update 3)
By Jean Christou Moscow will respond in case of a military build-up by the US in Cyprus, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on...
UK woman dies after poisoning by Soviet-era nerve agent
A British woman died on Sunday after she was poisoned by the same nerve agent that struck a former Russian spy in March and triggered...
Russia hunts for body fragments, clues after fatal plane crash
Emergency workers in Russia searched snow-covered fields outside Moscow on Monday, looking for body fragments and clues after a fatal plane crash a day earlier...
Netanyahu flies to Moscow for talks on Syria with Putin
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Moscow on Monday to discuss Israeli concerns about any expansion of Iran’s military foothold in Syria with Russian President...
Gunman opens fire in Moscow factory, ‘kills one, hostages held’
A gunman opened a fire in a pastry-making factory in Moscow on Wednesday, killing one person and taking an unknown number as hostages, Russian state...
Putin orders ‘major part’ of Syria forces to withdraw (Update)
President Vladimir Putin ordered “a significant part” of Russia’s military contingent in Syria to start withdrawing on Monday, saying Moscow and Damascus had achieved their mission of...
Osadchiy briefed beforehand about Browder’s lawsuit, government says
By Stelios Orphanides DEPUTY Government spokesman, Victor Papadopoulos said Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou and Attorney-general Costas Clerides had explained to Russian authorities and ambassador Stanislav...
Train hits bus near Moscow, sixteen people die (Updated)
Sixteen people were killed on Friday when a train slammed into a bus that had broken down at a level crossing near Moscow, Russia’s investigative...
Kremlin hopes US finds ‘political wisdom’ to solve row
The Kremlin said on Monday it hoped the Trump administration would find the political wisdom to solve a diplomatic dispute with Moscow over the seizure...
Tillerson heads to Moscow carrying Western call for Russia to abandon Assad
By Steve Scherer and Andrew Osborn US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson carried a message from world powers to Moscow on Tuesday denouncing...
Russia, before Tillerson visit, ‘worried’ US may attack N. Korea
Russia said it hoped forthcoming talks in Moscow with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would be productive, but said it was extremely worried the...
Media investigating Trump’s ties to Moscow, now digging in Cyprus
Investigations into the ties of US president Donald Trump’s team with Russia have diverted media attention to Cyprus, with US authorities probing his former campaign...
Amnesty International evicted from its Moscow office
Amnesty International, a campaign group which has accused the Kremlin of violating human rights with its bombing campaign in Syria, was evicted from its Moscow...