Russia’s defense minister said on Tuesday that war-torn Syria would be ready to accept one million returning refugees, following Moscow-backed reconstruction work. “Since 2015, when towns and villages gradually started to be freed, more than one million people have returned home,” Sergei Shoigu said in comments reported by Russian news ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that Moscow will take reciprocal measures in response to Washington’s latest sanctions, in an interview to a Slovak newspaper published on Tuesday. “We will continue to act calmly and pragmatically, reacting to all attacks in accordance with the principle of reciprocity,” Lavrov told the ...