Senior Kremlin official visits disputed island off Hokkaido
Kyodo VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA – The central government says it will lodge a protest with Moscow after a senior political figure in the Kremlin paid an official visit to one of the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido on Wednesday. Sergei Ivanov, chief of staff of the Presidential Executive Office and a clo ...
Russia threatens to halt meat and milk supplies from Belarus
Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia's agricultural watchdog, does not rule out the possibility of banning supplies of animal products from Belarus. “Harmful elements in products of a number of enterprises” can be the formal reason, Interfax news agency reports.
