The Russian former ambassador to the US shared his opinion on the situation around RT broadcaster that had been hit with a barrage of accusations by the West in recent months. The United States’ demand to list the RT broadcaster as a foreign agent is ultimately a crackdown on media and “shameful,” given that Washington has been promoting freedom of the press for centuries, Russia’s... 

Russia has invited President-elect Donald Trump to Syrian peace talks set to begin in late January, reports claim. The invitation was made, according to an anonymous transition official speaking with the Washington Post, during a Dec. 28 phone call between Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, and Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn. The talks, which...