Attorney General William Barr’s four page letter to U. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election is seen after being released by the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, U. Russia’s foreign ministry called on the United States on Monday to formally recognize there was no collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign at the 2016 elections following the conclusion of a months-long U. Attorney General Russian foreign ministry Barr said in a summary released on Sunday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had found no evidence of collusion in his investigation, but had not determined whether Trump obstructed justice by undermining inquiries that have dogged his presidency.

All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 20, 2019. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday that he believed the United States had tried to organize a coup in Venezuela and this violated the United Nations charter, the foreign ministry said. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and condemned Russian military support for his government.

All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. Russian Foreign Ministry condemns new U. Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned new U. Russian-Venezuelan bank and Washington’s threats to punish Russia’s oil giant Rosneft for cooperating with Venezuela.

Venezuela based on the principles of international law,” the ministry said in a statement. Monday imposed sanctions on Evrofinance Mosnarbank, a Moscow-based bank jointly owned by Russian and Venezuelan state-owned companies, for “attempting to circumvent U. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that sanctions imposed outside the framework of the UN Security Council could not be considered legitimate. It said that the sanctions deprived the bank from providing the Venezuelan government with an “opportunity to work normally with foreign partners. By banning dollar operations of the bank, Washington is also undermining trust in the U. The ministry also qualified threats by U.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against Rosneft as senseless. It recalled that Rosneft was under U. 2014 but continued to work successfully, while former U. Rosneft that were forced by Washington to curtail cooperation with it have sustained a lot of losses. On Monday, Pompeo accused Rosneft of continuing to purchase oil from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S. US journalists, who have been making groundless accusations against Russia of the 2016 US presidential election meddling, should now apologize to the domestic and Russian audience, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday evening. I’m not speaking about their feelings toward Trump, the decision on whether they should apologize to him is their domestic matter.