Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismisses “unscrupulous speculation” about alleged Russian ties with the Taliban militants in Afghanistan.

The Russian Foreign Ministry says the US should mind its own business after Washington's diplomatic mission expressed concern about media freedom in Russia. 

It has been about two rival groups fighting for power in Libya since 2014.

Russia’s top security official says the United States created and nurtured the Taliban militant group in Afghanistan in a decade-long covert operation.

Russia says it will introduce sanctions against the United Kingdom in retaliation for British bans targeting more than two dozen Russian officials.

Russia arrests an aide to the head of the country’s space agency Roscosmos on charges of state treason.

Russia says it reserves the right to retaliate against the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions on 25 Russian officials over alleged human rights violations.

The Russian presidential envoy for Afghanistan has accused Washington of involvement in “drug trafficking” in the war-torn country.

Russia says a decision by a court in the United Kingdom to give a Venezuelan opposition figure access to one billion dollars’ worth of Venezuelan state gold reserves in the country is “outrageous.”

President Trump proposed in May that the current format of the G7 is ‘outdated.’