President Donald Trump to Deliver First Speech to Congress During his first address before Congress, US President Donald Trump is expected to focus on economic policy, health care, infrastructure, and of course, military spending -- as the speech comes one day after promising a massive military buildup and corresponding cuts to other government programs. 28.02.2017
No Evidence of Trump Team's Ties With Russia - US House Intel Committee Chair The US House Intelligence Committee did not find any evidence so far proving that President Donald Trump’s advisers had any contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 US presidential campaign, Committee Chair Devin Nunes said in a press conference on Monday. 27.02.2017
Crimean Top Official on Poroshenko's Promise of 'Support': 'Just Leave Us Alone' Crimean residents want Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko "to leave them alone" and refrain from interfering in their local affairs, Russian State Duma deputy representing Crimea and former Crimean Vice President, Ruslan Balbek, told Sputnik. 26.02.2017
Day Two of Syrian Peace Talks in Geneva Wraps Up With 'No Game Plan' The second day of Syrian peace talks wrapped up in Geneva on Friday with no signs of progress and the participating sides apparently unaware of the way the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, was going to direct the negotiations. 25.02.2017
China to Trump: North Korean Nuclear Program is Your Problem On Friday China dismissed pressure from US President Donald Trump to reconsider its relationship with North Korea, suggesting that Washington must hash out its own issues with Pyongyang. 24.02.2017
Putin: Russia Inflicts Major Damage on Terrorists in Syria, It Helps Start Talks The Russian Armed Forces have inflicted major damage on terrorists in Syria, which helped facilitate talks between Damascus and opposition, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. 23.02.2017
Trump's New Immigrant Memo is 'Return to Traditional Law Enforcement' Donald Trump's new immigration guidelines will lead to more deportations, but rumors of millions of illegal immigrants being rounded up are wide of the mark, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian told Radio Sputnik. 22.02.2017
US' Anti-Iran Defense Pact 'Yet Another Attempt to Maintain Unipolar Order' Any attempts on the part of Washington and its Persian Gulf allies to drive a wedge between Moscow and Tehran in the Middle East will prove futile, Iranian political analyst Reza Moghaddasi told. 21.02.2017
Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin Dies Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin died at the age of 64, just a day before his 65th birthday, in New York on Monday. 19.02.2017
5 crucial questions about Russia's T-50 fifth generation jet fighter At the end of 2017 the T-50 (PAK FA) jet fighter will take to the sky with a new engine, but due to persistent defects it won't soon go into service with the Russian Air Force. 19.02.2017
New US stance on two-state Mideast solution - refreshing or regressive? While Donald Trump’s reluctance to move the US embassy to Jerusalem is not surprising, his approach to untangling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might be refreshing even without a concrete action plan, politicians and experts told RT. 18.02.2017
Putin: NATO keeps trying to draw Russia into confrontation, meddle in internal affairs NATO is constantly trying to draw Russia into a confrontation, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. 17.02.2017
Time to 'Drain the Swamp': Will Soros Find Himself Behind Bars? American billionaire George Soros has long been known for sponsoring "color revolutions" across the world. 16.02.2017
Trump, Netanyahu Hint At Middle East Peace Deal Involving Many Arab Countries The two-state solution that has been a cornerstone of all Middle East peace initiatives in the last decades, might not be the only way forward, according to US and Israeli leaders. 15.02.2017
'A Very Serious Military Mission': Why NATO Warships 'Escorted' Russia's Carrier The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was followed by more than 50 NATO ships on its way to Syria and back; this was by no means "an easy walk" for those vessels, Russian military commentator Viktor Baranets told. 14.02.2017
It's Not Rocket Science: DPRK's Missile Test Aimed at Getting Trump's Attention On Sunday, Pyongyang confirmed that it had carried out a successful test of an intermediate-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile. 13.02.2017
Kiev's Peace Trap: Why the Minsk Agreements May Outlast the Ukrainian Government Two years ago, between February 11-12, 2015, the leaders of Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine met in the Belarusian capital to sign Minsk II, a deal meant to forge a lasting end to the fighting in eastern Ukraine. 12.02.2017
Upcoming Ukrainian War-Games Near Russian Crimea Amount to 'Clear Provocation' Kiev plans to carry out military exercises in Kherson Oblast, bordering Crimea. 11.02.2017
Top Five Surprising Facts About Russian FM Sergei Lavrov On February 10 Russia celebrates Diplomatic Worker's Day to mark the achievements of outstanding Russian diplomats and commemorate the veterans of the Russian diplomatic service. 10.02.2017
Report: Trump Called Obama-Era Nuclear Reduction Treaty a Bad Deal on Putin Call Sources inside the White House have revealed that US President Donald Trump paused to ask aides what the New START treaty was, during a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, before telling Putin it was one in a string of bad deals completed by the Obama administration. 09.02.2017
