Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to expel ambassadors of ten countries from Turkey for their calls to release activist Osman Kavala, RIA Novosti reports. "Why are these ten ambassadors making such statements? I told our Foreign Minis...

Delegates from three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Poland refused to listen to the speech by the Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia, Valentina Matviyenko, at the meeting of the European Conference of Presidents of Parliam...

Students of the Turkmen State Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering were ordered to carry books written by Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. According to Radio Azatlyk (a subdivision of Radio Liberty, which is included by the Ru...

Military historian Boris Yulin, in an interview with Pravda. Ru, commented on the recent statement from US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who accused Russia of encroaching on the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. Yulin explained t...

The chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, announced that Iran was negotiating a deal with Moscow to acquire Russian fighter aircraft and helicopters. Bagheri arrived in Moscow on October 18. It was reported that th...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a speech at the Parliament of Angola, spoke against the "handful" of WWII victorious countries and said that the UN Security Council had no right to decide the fate of mankind. The video of Erdogan's spe...

Turkey may purchase Russian Su-35 and Su-57 fighter aircraft should the United States freeze the sale of F-16 after the F-35, Ismail Demir, the chief of Turkey's defense industry said. Dmitry Shugaev, the director of Russia's Federal Service for Mili...

Turkey's intentions to transfer thousands of its troops, tanks, artillery and other weapons to Syria to conduct a large-scale military operation in the northern part of the Arab Republic with an ultimate goal to possibly occupy the region, forced Rus...

The Turkish army has completed preparations for operations in northern Syria and is awaiting orders to launch an invasion of four Syrian cities: Manbij, Tel Tamir, Ain Isa and Tel Rifat, Turkish publication Turkiye reports.  It became known that Ank...

The President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was surrounded by local residents and tourists during his visit to Turkey. The video of the Chechen president walking through the crowd of people appeared in the Instagram account of the Grozny State Televis...

In Belarus, subscribers to Telegram channels, which the authorities declared as "extremist" will be tried for extremism, the Telegram channel of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime said (the channel publishes news stories related to th...

Over the next few years, Turkey will develop its own analogue of the Russian S-400 Triumf air defense system, the Turkish daily Milliyet said citing a statement from Ismail Demir, the head of the country's defense industry. According to the official,...

NATO's decision to expel eight officers of the Russian mission was not related to any specific event, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, Reuters reports. “This decision is not linked to any particular event, but we have seen over some ti...

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has published the Pandora Papers  report about the alleged involvement of world leaders, their associates, officials and businessmen in offshore schemes. More than 600 journalists from...

A number of media outlets, with reference to sources in military circles of Syria, reported that the Turkish army was retreating from the southern part of the Syrian province of Idlib towards the north.  The Turkish army started retreating after the...

A Paris court sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to one year in prison for illegal campaign financing in 2012, BFMTV reports.  Sarkozy will be allowed to serve his sentence outside the prison. He will spend one year with an electronic...

The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation will appeal to Russian departments with a proposal to take reciprocal measures against both YouTube video hosting service and German media in Russia after YouTube blocked RT's German-language projects. "...

Americans have reproached Russian President Vladimir Putin for deliberately picking a pretty translator for his meeting with then-President of the United States Donald Trump in 2019.  Trump's press secretary Stephanie Grisham said that Fiona Macleod...

Poland assessed the number of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and MLRS systems of the Russian army. This is the first time when Poland conducted such an assessment.  Poland's concerns regarding possible clashes with Russia pushed Polish experts to...

Russian media, referring to Turkish sources, reported that on the eve of the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey, Russia launched negotiations with the Kurds.  This creates more problems for Turkish President Recep Erdogan. The negotia...