Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that Western sanctions over Ukraine were harmful for the Russian economy, but that Western economies were also affected.
Disputes about it between Russia and the West cannot be settled short-term, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview with ZDF television channel.
Russia has really helped Ukraine, in contrast to vain promises and insolent demands of the West, speaker of RF State Duma (lower house of parliament) Sergei Naryshkin said on Thursday, opening an 'Open Tribune' meeting.
Tehran, YJC. The president has said that his negotiating team needs to be supported by all Iranians as it is settling for talks “in special circumstances.”
Tehran, YJC. -- Iranian President Hassan Rohani has called on Western governments to stop using the language of sanctions to address the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN, YJC.-- Israel admits that it has given less than one percent of the seized land in the occupied West Bank to Palestinians in the past three decades.
TEHRAN, YJC.-- A former member of the British domestic spy agency, MI5, says Iraq “has been wrecked by the west ern intervention”, stressing the claims of taking democracy to Iraq were “flagrant hypocrisy” from the very onset.