Category: News Desk

A museum in Latvia across the street of Russian embassy. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tue 05 April 2022: More than 120 Russian diplomats have been expelled from EU countries in the last 28 hours, amid international outrage over killings in the town of Bucha, Reuters reports. Spain’s foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, said today that 25 Russian diplomats […]

Tue 05 April 2022: The Kremlin said remarks by US President Joe Biden yesterday calling for Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes was unacceptable and unworthy of a US leader. Biden was responding to harrowing images broadcast around the world after the discovery over the weekend of a mass grave and bodies in civilian […]

Tue 05 April 2022: The United States has stopped the Russian government from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600m from reserves held at American banks, in a move meant to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and eat into its holdings of US dollars. Under sanctions put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine […]

Mon 04 April 2022: US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal on Monday, and said he would call for a war crimes trial. “You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said. He added that Putin “is a war criminal” Biden also said he would seek more sanctions after reported atrocities […]

Mon 04 April 2022: The United States will ask the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, Washington’s ambassador to the world body has said. “Russia’s participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce. And it is wrong, which is why we believe it is time the UN General […]

Mon 04 April 2022: Russia’s foreign minister has dismissed Ukrainian accusations that Moscow’s forces committed atrocities against civilians, calling Kyiv’s claims of a massacre in Bucha a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation”. Sergey Lavrov said at the start of his talks with UN Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths that the Ukrainian allegations were a “direct threat to global peace […]