Exactly 150 years ago, on March 30, 1867, the government of the Russian Empire sold its possessions in North America with a total area of 7,2 km² to the North American United States for $ 1 million. Now these possessions are part of the United States under the name Alaska, the transfer of which ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the situation around the contacts of the Russian ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak with advisers to President Donald Trump as a "witch hunt". He recalled that the ambassador's task is precisely to hold meetings, CNN reports. “It's all very similar ...
US President Donald Trump intends to sign an executive order next week (February 20-27) aimed at protecting Americans from illegal immigration into the country. He stated this during a press conference at the White House, Fox News reports. “We are planning to issue a new decree on...
US President Barack Obama said that Russia's attempt to influence the elections in America will be followed by a response, and that he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin about this. He said this during an interview on National Public Radio. “There is no doubt ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin “with a high degree of probability” was personally involved in the campaign to interfere in the US presidential election. This was reported by NBC News with reference to high-ranking sources in American intelligence. This information came from diplomatic and some ...
In 2016, the number of Russian citizens seeking asylum in the United States peaked in the last 22 years. The number of applications for asylum has doubled since the start of Vladimir Putin's third presidential term in 2012 and has been growing for the fourth year in a row ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump held telephone conversations, during which they discussed the further development of relations between Russia and the United States. Both interlocutors “agreed on the assessment of the current extremely unsatisfactory state of Russian-American relations and spoke in favor of an active ...
Relations between Russia and the United States have been very tense in the past 2 years, primarily due to the annexation of Crimea and the situation in Syria. But the winner of the US presidential election, Donald Trump, was called by many media a friend of the head of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and he himself ...
Has the attitude of Europe and the United States towards Russia changed in the light of recent international events? Analyzing the reports of the American and European press and statements of officials, one can come to the conclusion that Vladimir Putin has crossed another “red line”, beyond which new ones may await him ...
The United States is considering imposing sanctions against Russia over the hacking of US Democratic Party emails that occurred in early July. The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing its own informed sources. American intelligence agencies are “virtually confident of Russian involvement...