Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday denied postponing a Syria peace conference, saying the conference is being prepared for. “This congress is being prepared now,” FM Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Tuesday. “No one has postponed it because the date of the congress has not been officially announced,” he ...
Russia has reacted to Canada’s imposing sanctions on 30 Russian officials linked to human rights violations by announcing “mirror-image” measures. Canada on Friday banned and froze assets of 30 Russians linked to the case of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in prison after exposing a $230-million tax fraud. “We ...