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MOSCOW (Web Desk) Araqchi, who is in Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Ryabkov, told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that it is no longer a secret that the JCPOA is not a normal condition and is affected by the US withdrawal from the deal and its …

MOSCOW (Web Desk) Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he is “skeptical” about a United Nations report accusing the Syrian government of committing alleged crimes against humanity when its troops carried out a military operation in Eastern Ghouta earlier this year.We are in principle very skeptical towards the methods of …

MOSCOW (Web Desk) Russia’s military spending cannot match the Kremlin’s ambitions. Western sanctions and low gas prices forced a big cut to the Russian military budget in 2017, bedeviling a host of military projects. However, Russia is looking at cheap and easy ways to equip its forces  particularly the navy …

MOSCOW (Web Desk) Russia’s permanent representative at the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva Gennady Gatilov stated on Wednesday the United Nations’ Human Rights Council will lose nothing following the United States’ pullout.Moreover, its activities will get less politicized.Asked for a comment concerning Washington’s decision, he said “I …

MOSCOW (Web Desk) Senior Research Officer, the 3rd Central Research Institute of the Russian Defence Ministry, A.P. Anisimov reported on the critical deficiencies of the modern Russian Uran-9 large, Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV).The Uran-9 UGV is a Russian modern combat unmanned vehicle (also called the Russian tank in miniature) designed …

MOSCOW (Web Desk) In yesterday’s Treasury International Capital (TIC) report, we saw clearly that Russia activated its nearly $100 billion in U.S. Treasury debt to buy dollars in April.More than $47 billion in U.S. debt was dumped into the market to cover the chaos engendered by Trump’s overnight diktat for …

TEHRAN (Web Desk)  The UN envoy for Syria will meet on Monday with representatives from Iran, Russia and Turkey in Geneva to work towards a new constitution for the war-ravaged country. The talks in the Austrian capital are aimed at setting up a constitution-drafting commission and organizing elections in an …

Moscow (Web Desk) The Russian Defense Ministry’s Center for Syrian Reconciliation has delivered humanitarian aid to the residents of El Shiyha town in the western Hama province, Artur Yevseyev, a spokesman of the center, said Sunday. “Today the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation is holding activities in El Shiyha settlement. …

Moscow (Web Desk) A taxi drove into a crowd of pedestrians near Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday, injuring eight people including two Mexicans in the city for the soccer World Cup which Russia is hosting, officials and eyewitnesses said. The incident took place as residents and visiting soccer fans from …

MOSCOW (Web Desk) Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center on Sunday to orbit a Glonass-M satellite, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “On Sunday, at 00:46 Moscow time [21:46 GMT]… the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a middle-class Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a …