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Russian diplomats celebrate professional holiday

Russian diplomats celebrate professional holiday

Russian diplomats on Saturday celebrate their professional holiday – diplomatic worker’s Day. This holiday was an anniversary for Russian diplomacy. Officially it was established in October 2002 by the decree of the …

New Kazakh Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan named

New Kazakh Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan named

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has named Karim Kokrekbayev as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazinform reported citing the Akorda's …

Vladimir Putin appoints new ambassador to Kazakhstan

Vladimir Putin appoints new ambassador to Kazakhstan

President of Russia Federation Vladimir Putin has appointed Alexey Borodavkin as Ambassador to Kazakhstan by his decree. By another decree, he relieved Mikhail Bocharnikov of that post. The …

Saudi Arabia grants India approval for flights to Israel

Saudi Arabia grants India approval for flights to Israel

Saudi Arabia has granted for the first time permission for Air India flights headed to Israel to use its airspace, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. The decision, which will be implemented in March, means that the flights from New …

Diplomatic Club Meeting. Chinese New Year

Diplomatic Club Meeting. Chinese New Year

The Diplomatic Club at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Embassy of the People's Republic of China held a meeting dedicated to the folk traditions of celebrating the Chinese New Year. The guests enjoyed the tea …

Russia's envoy ends diplomatic mission in Kazakhstan

Russia's envoy ends diplomatic mission in Kazakhstan

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with Ambassador of Russia Mikhail Bocharnikov in connection with completion of his diplomatic mission in Kazakhstan. According to Nazarbayev, Bocharnikov …

Syria strongly condemns Turkish aggression on Afrin

Syria strongly condemns Turkish aggression on Afrin

Syria strongly condemns the Turkish aggression on the city of Afrin, calling on the international community to take steps to stop it immediately, Syrian Arab News Agency reports. An official source at the Foreign and Expatriates …

Russian Foreign Minister sums up results of 2017

Russian Foreign Minister sums up results of 2017

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is holding a press conference today on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2017. Russia's foreign minister noted that 2017 "has not been a simple in a geopolitical sense," saying that …

Tehran tightens security precautions around Russian embassy

Tehran tightens security precautions around Russian embassy

Iran's law enforcement agencies have taken extra security precautions around the Russian embassy in Tehran, a source at the embassy said. "The local diplomatic police have tightened security. Reinforced police cordons can be …

Putin taught me, Lavrov says

Putin taught me, Lavrov says

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, answering the questions on the air of the International Sawmill program, told what he had learned from Russian President Vladimir Putin. So, when asked how he managed to pronounce the phrase …

Azerbaijan parliament speaker invited to IPU meeting in Tehran

Azerbaijan parliament speaker invited to IPU meeting in Tehran

Azerbaijan Parliament Speaker Ogtay Asadov has been invited to take part in the upcoming emergency meeting of Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Tehran, Trend reports with a reference to IRNA. Reportedly, the invitation …

 Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry sums up results of 2017

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry sums up results of 2017

As a result of the efforts jointly made by Azerbaijan and the OSCE Minsk Group, it became possible to return Armenia to the negotiating table, the spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Hikmat Hajiyev, said at a press …

US admits Russia's resurgence

US admits Russia's resurgence

Washington has a poor relationship with a resurgent Russia now, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. According to the Secretary of State, the Trump administration had "no illusions about the regime we are …