Tag: Russia
PM condemns Russia’s Ukraine invasion which will claim many ‘innocent lives’
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand joins its international partners in condemnation of Russia's attack on Ukraine and has immediately taken a...
New Zealand announces bans on Russia in reply to Ukraine invasion
RNZ News
In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, New Zealand's government is implementing a range of measures, including a travel ban on Russian officials...
John Minto: The hypocrisy of NZ’s silence in calling out Israeli,...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto in Christchurch
On December 30, New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade published a tweet condemning the forced closure of...
Russian fishing crew not feeling too unwell, says Sealord boss
By RNZ News
Hundreds of Russian fishing crew at a New Zealand covid isolation hotel in Christchurch are said to be in good spirits and...
Covid-19 outbreak among Russian fishers at NZ isolation facility
Sealord responds to international fishers covid-19 outbreak at Christchurch MIQ. Video: RNZ
By RNZ News
Some 11 cases of covid-19 have been confirmed at a New...
Panama Papers: China censors allegations, but Russian media note contents
A trailer for the Panama Papers global investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the...
Twelve Nobel Prize winners, a Beatle, and the Pope can’t all...
On September 18, 2013, two Greenpeace International activists were arrested during a peaceful protest at a Gazprom oil platform in the Russian Arctic. A...
Russians hand over equipment to Fiji military
By Mere Naleba in Suva
The Russian Ambassador to Fiji, Vladimir Morozov, and Russia's head of the Missile Artillery Chief Directorate, Lieutenant-General Nikolay Parshin, have...
Alastair Thompson: ‘Seismic shift’ in US policy over Syria stuns the...
Syria's President Assad vows to 'retake the whole country'. Video: AFP interview on France 24
OPINION: By Alastair Thompson
The news that the Russians (Sergei Lavrov)...
‘Donated’ Russian weapons may have dual purpose in Fiji, says analyst
From Evening Report
By New Zealand-based security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan
Last week Fiji took delivery of a shipment of Russian weapons that were “donated” by...