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Tunisia’s top diplomat has announced the North African country has sent an invitation to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to pay State visit as Tunis brands relations with Moscow “perfect”. Nabil Ammar held Thursday December 21 meetings with his Russian counterpart Read more
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan revealed Monday the kingdom’s plan to mediate between Russia and Ukraine caught in a conflict after Russian President launched last month a military invasion to denazify the former soviet country. Read more
In a phone call, on Thursday, to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed that NATO’s expansion was a “serious threat” to the region’s security and stability, according to the semi-official Nour News. “NATO’s expansion eastward creates tension Read more
Syria’s government says it “supports” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognise two Moscow-backed separatist-held regions in eastern Ukraine as independent. Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad says Syrian government ‘will cooperate’ with the two Moscow-backed separatist-held regions. In comments carried by Read more
Russia, China and Iran will hold mid this month joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean, reports say citing Russian envoy to Iran. Levan Dzhagaryan, the reports notes, also indicated that the drills are set to include practicing search and Read more
Russia Wednesday indicated that it reached a draft deal with Sudan to build a naval base on the Red Sea coast of the African country. President Vladimir Putin is yet to rubber-stamp the deal, Middle East Monitor, MEMO, reports. Per Read more
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has opened an office in the kingdom, a move Moscow describes will boost cooperation in a wide range of areas. The opening of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) office is coming few days before the Read more
The U.S. and Israel have called on Russia to reconsider its plan to supply the Syrian army with modern S-300 air defense system, few days after Moscow blamed Tel Aviv for being the sole responsible for the downing of the Read more
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday welcomed the agreement reached between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and President Vladimir Putin of Russia earlier this week, to create a demilitarized buffer zone in Idlib. In a statement to journalists Read more
President Emmanuel Macron of France Monday opposed Syrian leader staying in power, arguing that a return to normalcy following the ouster of the Islamic State group (ISIS) will be a “grotesque error”. “We can see those who would like to Read more