In Havana, the issuance of American visas has been suspended indefinitely as the United States is withdrawing most of its embassy staff. The normal work of the embassy will be stopped until Cuba guarantees the complete safety of American diplomats. The State Department ordered most of the U.S. Embassy staff to ...
After Russia reduced the number of American diplomatic missions in the country by 755 people and banned American diplomats from using several buildings in Moscow, Washington decided to close the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco, as well as trade missions in Washington and ...
Moscow may further reduce the staff of the American diplomatic mission by 155 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this at a press conference of the BRICS summit in the Chinese city of Xiamen, writes Radio Liberty. Putin explained that of the 455 Russian diplomats in the United States, 155 work under...
US President Donald Trump thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for the sharp reduction in the number of American diplomats in Russia, writes Voice of America. Trump explained: "Because we will spend less on salaries." “I want to thank him because we are trying to cut costs ...
Three trucks, a minibus, a jeep and a taxi have left the dacha of the US Embassy in Serebryany Bor in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. Before that, they were loaded with furniture and boxes. Cars were on the territory of the dacha from seven in the morning. Before the column left Serebryany Bor, an embassy employee handed out business cards to journalists ...
A diplomatic scandal with criminal overtones erupted on September 1, 2016 in the Israeli Rimonim prison south of the city of Netanya. The Consul of Ukraine in Israel Anatoly Pisarevsky, who planned to visit a Ukrainian citizen imprisoned in this prison, was detained by Israeli police and subjected...
The Russian-American Cultural Foundation headed by Marina Kovaleva has opened another Russian Heritage Month in New York. A gala reception with the participation of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, as usual, was held in the Egyptian Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Good evening", - the mayor, present, addressed the audience in Russian ...
Russian diplomats Grigory Lukyantsev, Vasily Nebenzya, Anatoly Viktorov and Yevgeny Zagainov used the same speech at the UN with minimal changes between 2008 and 2015. The fact that the diplomats pronounced practically the same text was discovered by blogger Yuri Shtengel, ...
Iran and the Six countries (USA, France, UK, Germany, China and Russia) have reached an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions against Tehran, diplomats say. As BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports, under the agreement Iran will allow IAEA inspectors to...
The Ukrainian ambassador to Libya and the Ukrainian consul in this country were robbed by unknown persons when they were heading from the country's capital, Tripoli, to the village of Ras Agadir on the border with Tunisia. Arab media reported this. According to a statement by representatives of the armed group...