Britain on Tuesday sanctioned five Russian banks and three individuals in response to Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s separatist regions. The Russian banks sanctioned are Rossiayaz Bank, IS Bank, General Bank, Promsvyazbank, and the Black Sea Bank, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced. Gennady Timchenko, Igor Rotenberg, and Boris Rotenberg...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that a meeting planned for Thursday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva has been canceled following Moscow’s recognition of two breakaway regions in Ukraine. “Now that we see the invasion is beginning and Russia has made clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy, it doe...
Problems between Russia and Georgia, including those concerning the territorial integrity of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, cannot be forcibly resolved but instead the solution should be through diplomacy, Georgia’s president said Tuesday. Salome Zurabishvili also noted that Georgia does not have the opportunity to force Russia into a real dialog...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the Minsk Agreement on the Ukrainian settlement ceased to exist when Russia recognized Ukraine’s breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Putin said Russia had struggled for eight years for the implementation of the accord while...
The presence of tens of thousands of Russian troops inside Belarus, which the West fears could be used to invade Ukraine, represents a threat to Belarusian independence, the country’s exiled opposition leader said Wednesday. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who the West believes was the true winner of August 2020 presidential elections that kept ...
Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) urged three international broadcasters to apply for an online broadcasting license as a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed Wednesday it is a “technical requirement.” US State Department spokesman Ned Price expressed “concern” on Twitter about RTUK’s requiremen...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday recognized the independence of two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine in an emotional address on state-run television. He also questioned Ukraine’s right to sovereignty and alleged the West had spent years cheating Moscow. Putin said the West “spat” on Russia’s security con...
Ghanian football star Abdul Majeed Waris, the Racing Strasbourg forward, is funding a mosque project in his Ghanaian hometown. The Twitter page of the player’s foundation shared photos of the mosque that showed work on the project is moving forward successfully. The two-story mosque is under construction in the Lamashegu community in Tamale ...
More than 75 mosques in Flanders, Belgium have been awaiting recognition they applied for nearly three years ago, Flemish Minister of Coexistence Bart Somers said. In Belgium, the federal government determines which religions are recognized. However, the regions are in charge of recognizing local religious communities. Flanders has roughly 1,7...
ANKARA (AA) – Germany, Egypt, France, and Jordan voiced their commitment on Saturday to a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine for lasting peace in the Middle East. Following a meeting of these countries’ foreign ministers in Munich, a joint statement said the they “continue their coordination and consultation with...
