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Russia's Lavrov attends OSCE meeting in Malta in first visit to EU country since Ukraine invasion
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Russia's Lavrov attends OSCE meeting in Malta in first visit to EU country since Ukraine invasion

The Independent  

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Russia’s Lavrov clashes with Blinken at OSCE meeting
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Russia’s Lavrov clashes with Blinken at OSCE meeting

Al Jazeera  

Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserts Ukraine’s sovereign right to make choices about its future without interference from Moscow. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has clashed indirectly with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at an annual security meeting in Malta, accusing the West of risking escalation in the war in Ukraine. “After the Afghan disgrace, there was a need …

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Belarus refuses to invite OSCE observers to monitor this year’s parliamentary election
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Belarus refuses to invite OSCE observers to monitor this year’s parliamentary election

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarusian authorities on Monday said they will not invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the country’s parliamentary and local elections, scheduled for Feb. 25. This year’s election will take place amid continued repressions and as some 1,500 political prisoners remain behind bars, including leaders of opposition parties and renowned human …

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Serbia’s ruling populists say weekend elections were fair despite international criticism, protests
1 year ago

Serbia’s ruling populists say weekend elections were fair despite international criticism, protests

Associated Press  

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s ruling populists insisted on Tuesday that weekend snap elections were free and fair despite criticism from international observers who noted multiple irregularities during the vote in the Balkan nation that is a candidate for European Union membership. Some opposition politicians spent a night in the building after lodging formal complaints against what they say was “a …

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Russia’s foreign minister faces Western critics at security meeting and walks out after speech
1 year ago

Russia’s foreign minister faces Western critics at security meeting and walks out after speech

Associated Press  

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov faced Western critics while attending international security talks Thursday in Northern Macedonia, where he blamed “NATO’s reckless expansion to the East” for war returning to Europe. He blamed what he described as Western tolerance of the “ruling neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv” for the war that started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine …

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Russian FM says he plans to attend OSCE meeting in North Macedonia
1 year ago

Russian FM says he plans to attend OSCE meeting in North Macedonia

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that he plans to travel to North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO member country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. North Macedonia, which holds the group’s rotating chairmanship, last week invited Lavrov to an OSCE foreign ministers’ …

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Turkey slams election observers’ ‘lack of transparency’ comment
1 year, 7 months ago

Turkey slams election observers’ ‘lack of transparency’ comment

Al Jazeera  

Ankara says remarks made in a report on Sunday’s polls by European observers are ‘politically charged and accusatory’. Turkey’s foreign ministry has slammed the “lack of transparency” statements made by an international observer mission monitoring Sunday’s elections in the country. “I regret to note that the election administration’s work was lacking in transparency, as well as the overwhelming bias of …

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Russia-Ukraine latest updates: US officials to meet Zelenskyy
2 years, 8 months ago

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: US officials to meet Zelenskyy

Al Jazeera  

Ukraine news from April 24: President Zelenskyy says he hopes to secure heavy weapons at talks with senior US officials. Let us reach a just end on this path — the beginning of a happy life and prosperity of Ukraine.” Zelenskyy said that “on Easter, we ask God for great grace to make our dream come true – this is …

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Latest Russia-Ukraine updates: Tens of thousands flee their homes
2 years, 10 months ago

Latest Russia-Ukraine updates: Tens of thousands flee their homes

Al Jazeera  

UN says 100,000 Ukrainians have fled their homes with several thousand crossing into neighbouring countries. 24 Feb 2022 - 18:50 GMT Biden: Russia ‘will bear the consequences’ of new sanctions Biden has said “Putin chose this war” in Ukraine, and he and Russia “will bear the consequences” of new sanctions. 24 Feb 2022 - 11:13 GMT Iran says Ukraine crisis …

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Putin presents a profound threat to peace in Europe as ‘drumbeat of war’ sounds on Russia-Ukraine border
2 years, 11 months ago

Putin presents a profound threat to peace in Europe as ‘drumbeat of war’ sounds on Russia-Ukraine border

CNN  

CNN — Europe has a long and bloody history of wars, of borders brutally contested, of nations and empires carving destructive furrows far from home. The US ambassador to the 57 nation, globe straddling Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe, Michael Carpenter, warned on Thursday that European security is facing a “crisis” and “the drumbeat of war is sounding …

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US warns Russia over Ukraine as fears of war rise
3 years ago

US warns Russia over Ukraine as fears of war rise

Al Jazeera  

Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrov meet for discussions in Stockholm as concerns rise over the escalation in eastern Ukraine. 2 Dec 2021 - 15:21 GMT Washington fears Russian ‘invasion of Ukrainian territory’ Al Jazeera’s Rosalind Jordan, reporting from Washington, DC, said Blinken’s remarks following his meeting with Lavrov were a “reiteration of the Biden administration’s view that Russia is making …

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US warns Russia over Ukraine as fears of war rise
3 years ago

US warns Russia over Ukraine as fears of war rise

Al Jazeera  

Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrov meet for discussions in Stockholm as concerns rise over the escalation in eastern Ukraine. 2 Dec 2021 - 15:21 GMT Washington fears Russian ‘invasion of Ukrainian territory’ Al Jazeera’s Rosalind Jordan, reporting from Washington, DC, said Blinken’s remarks following his meeting with Lavrov were a “reiteration of the Biden administration’s view that Russia is making …

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Official: Blinken, Russian FM to meet amid Ukraine tensions
3 years ago

Official: Blinken, Russian FM to meet amid Ukraine tensions

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet separately with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts on Thursday on the margins of a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, at a time of tension over Russian military deployments on Ukraine’s borders. A State Department official confirmed the meetings, which will happen on the sidelines of a minister-level meeting of the Organization for …

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