Interstate relations

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Western countries should reimburse the republic for the costs associated with an emergency landing of the Ryanair aircraft.

Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden may hold their first meeting in Switzerland. This is reported by the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, citing sources.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the West's reaction to the incident with the Ryanair landing in Belarus shocking.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told why the position of the Baltic countries and the United States reminds him of the behavior of courtyard hooligans.

The Crimean parliament said that they could just as successfully pass a document on non-recognition of US sovereignty over Alaska, as the Americans adopted a bill on non-recognition of Crimea as Russian.

The State Duma denounced the Open Skies Treaty, the decision was unanimous.

Expanding the list of unfriendly countries is possible, but Moscow does not want this list to become dimensionless.

The North Atlantic Alliance remains ready for dialogue with Russia

There are no agreements on the date and place of the meeting between Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, the issue is under discussion.

The European Union is concerned not with the fact that there is a war in the east of Ukraine and people dying, but with the fact that it fails to control the processes taking place there.

Chad and Russia "are in the same trench" in the fight against international terrorism. This was stated in an interview with RIA Novosti by the Minister for National Reconciliation and Dialogue of Chad, Ash-Sheikh Ibn Umar.

The European Union should not «change it's course aimed at protecting civil rights, including in Russia», Mas said at a meeting with colleagues from EU countries.

The press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Anatoly Glaz, in response to the G7's call to hold new elections in the republic, said that Minsk itself would decide when and what election campaigns to hold.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Washington opposes the actions of the Russian Federation "to destabilize."

The ratification of the EU-China investment agreement has been postponed indefinitely.