Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating ...

Russia took over the United Nations Security Council rotating presidency on Saturday promising to act as an honest broker, Moscow's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky ...

President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered stronger border security to ensure "fast" Russian military and civilian movement ...

Russia's Security Council presidency was considered by some Western countries, particularly Ukraine, as a symbolic blow to the UN. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even suggested that some ...

Mr. Lévy would have the UN negate that decision and give the seat, and veto, to Ukraine. Welcome to the fight, we say. We’ve been warning about the illegitimacy of Russia’s role in the security ...

The UN Security Council president presides over meetings and gets to decide the topics of signature sessions Russia is widely accused of violating the UN Charter by invading Ukraine Vladimir Putin ...

Russia has asked controversial Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters to be a speaker at a U.N. Security Council session focused on the war ... Last August, he accused U.S. President Joe Biden of ...

A member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's powerful Security Council on Tuesday warned that the more destructive the ...

Armenia on May 24 called on the UN's ... it said. Russia launched its full-scale, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Russia's Orthodox Church has staunchly backed President ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — First the Russians gave the U.N. spotlight to the commissioner of children’s rights accused with President ... taken to Russia. For the informal Security Council meeting ...

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