A group of three members of the European Union Parliament paid a visit to the Russian military base in rural Latakia, following their meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad with a Russian Parliamentary delegation in Damascus. Head of International Affairs Committee in the Russian Senate, Konstantin Kosachyov, said in a ...
Russia’s foreign ministry has requested President Vladimir Putin turf out 35 American diplomats from the country in a tit-for-tat response to a similar move by Washington, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. “Russia’s foreign ministry… has requested that the Russian president approve declaring as personae non gratae 31 employees of ...