Mike Pompeo will make his first trip to Russia as U.S. secretary of state next week for talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on “aggressive and destabilizing actions” Moscow has taken around the world, a senior State Department official said on Friday.

• Date: 13.05.2019  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2019  |  External Relations

Russian authorities blocked a regional news website over the weekend over a report about graffiti insulting Vladimir Putin, its chief editor said, under a new ban on insulting officials online.

• Date: 15.04.2019  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2019  |  External Relations

The U.S. administration and Turkey should explain to the U.S. Congress why Ankara had to purchase the S-400 missile system from Russia, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

• Date: 03.04.2019  |  Published on EGF: 03.04.2019  |  External Relations

A comedian with no political experience raced ahead in Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, offering a fresh face to voters fed up with entrenched corruption in a country on the frontline of the West’s standoff with Russia.

• Date: 01.04.2019  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2019  |  External Relations

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusion that U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign did not collude with Russia in the 2016 election is a serious blow to Democrats who had hoped Mueller’s report would boost their own wide-ranging probes into Trump’s business dealings.

• Date: 25.03.2019  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2019  |  External Relations

Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.

• Date: 25.03.2019  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2019  |  External Relations

From breaking into computers to paying for a megaphone, Russian efforts to undermine the U.S. political system have been spelled out in detail by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has described an elaborate campaign of hacking and propaganda during the 2016 presidential race.

• Date: 11.03.2019  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2019  |  External Relations

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to review global oil demand and supply balance as the group maintains production cuts during its April meeting, a senior Gulf oil official said on Monday.

• Date: 11.03.2019  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2019  |  External Relations