
The Western response to the Salisbury poison attack on ex-Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal is clear, but not unanimous. Austria, alongside some other European countries, has refused to expel Russian diplomats, though Vienna expressed “unqualified solidarity with the UK.” The British ambassador to Austria repeatedly expressed a demarche to Vienna ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov announced on Wednesday that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura will discuss on Thursday the date and form of the next round of the intra-Syrian dialogue in Geneva. In a statement to Sputnik news agency, Bogdanov ...