Russia

MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Tuesday said the US didn’t want to acknowledge Russia’s priorities and signals, leaving Moscow no choice but to cancel the meeting of a bilateral commission on the New START Treaty.

Nov 29 (Reuters) - Russia is trying to make the United States understand that Washington's increasing involvement in the Ukraine conflict carries growing risks, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday, according to Russian news agencies.

Moscow has repeatedly complained that Western military support for Ukraine is dragging out the conflict, now in its 10th month, while risking a possible direct confrontation between Russia and the West.

28 Nov 2022; MEMO: Deputy Director-General of the Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation (Rosatom), Kirill Komarov, announced that the EU's sanctions against Moscow will not pose a problem for financing the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Mersin, southern Turkiye.

This came in statements at the International Nuclear Energy Conference Atomexpo 2022 held in the Russian city of Sochi on Monday, in which Komarov explained that Akkuyu is the current largest nuclear power plant construction site in the world.

MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/: Russia is redirecting its exports and imports to new markets against the backdrop of an international trade crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a forum of interregional cooperation with Kazakhstan on Monday.

MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/: Moscow calls on the Norwegian authorities to stop persecuting Russian citizens on ethnic grounds, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Monday in connection with the summoning of the kingdom's envoy to Moscow Robert Kvile over the arrest of Russian citizens in Norway.

"We called on the Norwegian authorities to abandon such Russophobic actions and persecution of Russian citizens on the grounds of nationality," the ministry pointed out.

MOSCOW, November. 28 /TASS/: Moscow and Astana consider it important that the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea enter into force as soon as possible. This is stated in the declaration adopted by the Presidents of the two countries, Vladimir Putin and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.

MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan’s leader met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, a week after winning a new seven-year term by a landslide in a snap election.

Kazakhstan is a significant Russian ally, sharing a 7,600-kilometer (4,750-mile) border. But President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has kept his distance from Moscow amid the conflict in Ukraine, notably declining this summer to recognize the Kremlin’s declaration of separatist Ukraine regions as sovereign states.

MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/: Breaches of safety rules were documented in high-security laboratories at universities of Washington, Minnesota and Illinois, Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said on Saturday ahead of the Ninth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

MOSCOW, November 27. /TASS/: NATO drones made attempts to cross the border of the Pskov Region of Russia even before the start of the special military operation, Governor of the Region Mikhail Vedernikov said.

"We have never provided extensive coverage to that but there were attempts of military unmanned aerial vehicles and other aircraft to illegally cross the border," Vedernikov said.

MOSCOW, November 27./TASS/: Early in December, the State Duma will adopt the decision to ban the services of surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign nationals, lower house’s Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel on Sunday.

"Surrogacy for foreign nationals should be banned. <...> It is necessary to do everything to protect children by not allowing foreigners to use the services of surrogacy. We will make this decision in early December," he blogged.