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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...

Greece warned the nation of Russia on Monday not to intervene in its domestic affairs after Moscow alleged that the Prespa agreement was "imposed from the outside." The Greek government was responding to commentary by the Russian Foreign Ministry, which...

The Russian Foreign Ministry has some tough words for American Assistant Secretary of State John Sullivan, the ministry accused the United States of anti-Russian rhetoric. Sullivan visited Skopje on December 18 and said Russia tried to intervene in the domestic...

Russian President Vladimir Putin made scathing remarks concerning the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople during his annual press conference in Moscow on Thursday. According to the Ukrainian website KyivPost, Putin harshly criticized Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, saying that his attitude toward...

Cyprus President  Anastasiades' televised news conference recently confirmed the notion that there never was a viable strategic plan to solve the Cyprus problem. It has been nothing but a political charade. After years of talks between the two ethnic communities...

Greece can be the bridge between Russia and the EU and NATO, said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday in a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. "The important historical background of Greek-Russian relations has...

United States Department of State Building in Washington, D.C. File photo The US State Department described the recent Russian claim that the United States plans to militarize the island of Cyprus as "absurd", answering to Greek correspondents in Washington on...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the West interfered in the domestic affairs of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), bribing and blackmailing lawmakers to approve the Prespa accord with Greece. In an interview with the Greek daily Efimerida...