Russia

Andrey Maslov, the Russian Ambassador to Greece, claimed in an interview on Wednesday that the Prespa Agreement destabilizes the Balkans. Speaking with Greece's ERT1 channel of the public broadcasting network, the Ambassador declared that North Macedonia had been pushed into...

In an unprecedented incident, the Russian Embassy to Athens blasted the US Senator Bob Menendez, Washington and the American strategy in the eastern Mediterranean in a series of tweets on Holy Thursday. The embassy published four different tweets in the...

Unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the Russian consulate in the Athenian neighborhood of Halandri in the early hours of Friday, causing minor damage to the building. Police said that the consulate's cameras showed two people on a motorbike...

Teodor Currentzis has been dubbed the "rebel of classical music," "the bad boy of classical music, and even a "hellraiser." These are all descriptions that are perhaps more fitting for a rock star than a man who conducts Mozart...

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that the country will now officially recognize the Republic of North Macedonia with its new constitutional name. Moscow decided to recognize the country's new name despite its strong disapproval of the Prespa Agreement...

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt said on Tuesday there is evidence of Russian efforts to undermine Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Pyatt said that "we’ve seen evidence of this kind of manipulation of information in Greece. We’ve seen Russian efforts in...

Russian national Alexander Vinnik, a suspect involving a Bitcoin fraud, was transferred on Thursday to a specialist clinic in Greece as his lawyers warned that his life was in danger. The Russian man has been on a hunger strike in a...

Volkan Bozkir, the chairman of the Turkish Parliament's foreign affairs committee, was quoted by Turkey's Milliyet newspaper on Thursday as saying that Turkey will go ahead with the controversial purchase of a Russian missile system. If true, the buying of the...

Moscow expects Athens to extradite back to his own country the Russian national Alexander Vinnik, a bitcoin fraud suspect who has been in a Greek prison since July 2017. The Russian foreign ministry spoke about the case on Thursday at...

Russian president Putin has criticized the name deal between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), suggesting it is part of a campaign to increase western influence in the Balkan region. In an interview with Serbia’s Vecernje Novosti...