Tehran, YJC. US President Barack Obama’s imposition of sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine is likely to rekindle a new Cold War, an analyst tells Press TV in an interview.
Russia reserves the right to give an adequate response to the sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Saturday.
Russia on Saturday expressed hopes for the success of the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, while stressing the observers were excluded from Crimea after its takeover by Moscow.
Ukraine will have to buy natural gas from Russia even at $500 per 1,000 cubic meters should Moscow set such a price, Ukrainian parliament-appointed prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said on Ukrainian television.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
and U.S. State Secretary John Kerry were planned to meet in The Hague, a
Russian Foreign Ministry source confirmed to Itar-Tass on Saturday. "Such
a meeting is planned," he said.
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Tuesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of attempting to "rewrite the boundaries" of post-World War II Europe.
Georgia does not recognise the referendum that was held in Ukraine's autonomous republic of Crimea on March 16, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
In the period from March 17 to 21 a joint mission of Germany and the United States will perform an observation flight over Belarus and Russia within the international Treaty on Open
Skies, head of the National Nuclear Threat Reduction Centre Sergei Ryzhkov told Itar-Tass.
Europe will have trouble weaning itself off Russian natural gas, analysts say, as its faces declining production at home and Asian competition for supplies.
Moscow on Saturday urged Ukraine to outlaw ultra-nationalist groups after two people were killed in fresh clashes in the Russian-speaking east of the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's rating is at its highest in the last few years, results of a sociological survey conducted by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) made public on Thursday suggested.
The events in Ukraine have been conditioned by a scenario realised by external forces, primarily by the United States, that should be played in the course of presidential elections in 2015, former chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Aleksander Yakimenko said.
Beyond Sunday's referendum on whether Crimea should join Russia, one big question looms: how viable will the disputed peninsula be if it decides to split from Ukraine?
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin will meet top managers of the country's biggest industrial enterprises to discuss the means to overcome potential economic sanctions
of the West.
Tehran, YJC. Ukraine’s ousted president, Victor Yanukovych, has sharply criticized the United States for backing what he calls a bandit regime in Ukraine.