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Kremlin denounces 'imperialist character' of US strategic report

Moscow - Muslimchronicle

The Kremlin denounced on Tuesday the "imperialist character" of the American report on national security strategy, accusing Washington of clinging to a "unipolar world". "The imperialist character of this document is obvious, as is the refusal to renounce a unipolar world, an insistent refusal," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding the Russian authorities "cannot accept that the country isRead more

Syria congress to go ahead

Sochi - Muslimchroncile

The Kremlin said Thursday Turkey's opposition to the participation of Kurdish militias in Syria's political process would not stand in the way of a peace "congress" Moscow is seeking to organise in the near future. "We know that there are certain reservations on the part of our Turkish partners with regards to the forces they believe pose a threat toRead more

Kremlin warns US against ditching Iran nuclear deal

Moscow - Muslimchronicle

The Kremlin warned Washington on Friday that should it abandon the Iran nuclear deal, it would deal a heavy blow to international relations and non-proliferation efforts. "This could seriously aggravate the situation around the Iranian nuclear dossier," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. "Such actions will unequivocally damage the atmosphere of predictability, security, stability and non-proliferation in theRead more

Kremlin confirms Trump lawyer emailed Kremlin during campaign

Moscow - AFP

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that the Kremlin last year received an email from a lawyer working for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump about building a Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that the Trump Organization's chief counsel at the time, Michael Cohen, sent a message to a publicly available Kremlin press-service email addressRead more

Kremlin Declines Comment on Military Reinforcement on Border with N Korea

Moscow - Arab Today

The movements of Russian troops inside the country are not referred to public issues, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday as he declined to comment on media reports on the reinforcement of Russia's military presence on the border with North Korea, TASS news agency reported. "The issues of troops' deployment and re-deployment are not referred to the category ofRead more

Expenses probe: French prosecutors seek to lift Le Pen’s immunity

Paris - Arab Today

French prosecutors have asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen over an expenses scandal, deepening her legal woes on the eve of the election, legal sources said. The move comes just nine days before France heads to the polls for a highly unpredictable vote with Le Pen, who heads the euroskeptic NationalRead more

Moscow says US missile strike in Syria act of aggression

Moscow - Arab Today

Moscow considers the U.S. missile strike on a military airfield in Syria as an "aggression against a sovereign state" under a far-fetched pretext, saying it violates international law, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday. The strike is an attempt to divert international community's attention from civilian casualties in Iraq and could aggravate tension between the United States and Russia, theRead more

Moscow: US has no objective data on 'monstrous crime' in Syria

Moscow - Arab Today

The Kremlin on Thursday said US allegations that Syrian forces carried out a deadly chemical attack are not based on "objective" information. "Any data that the American side or our colleagues in other countries could have cannot be based on objective materials or evidence," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that the incident in rebel-held Khan Sheikhun wasRead more

Russia after Idlib: Our stance towards Assad unchanged

Moscow - Arab Today

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, announced that Russia will continue its military operations supporting the Syrian regime and President Bashar al-Assad after the regime air force unleashed a chemical attack on Idlib. Peskov added that he is engaged in negotiations. Russia will argue at the UN Security Council emergency session called to discuss the issue that the chemical attack wasRead more

How the Idlib massacre happened

Idlib - Arab Today

More than 100 people were killed including children, women, and the elderly by rockets filled with poison gas in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, in the Southern suburb of Idlib on Tuesday morning. Witnesses in northern Hama countryside confirmed that the warplane that bombed the site was a Sukhoi Su-22, which was also confirmed by Russia in a statement. TheRead more