EghtesadOnline: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday he was unaware that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak , but said such meetings were routine.

EghtesadOnline: Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a hard-line critic of the U.S. who’s blacklisted by the European Union over the Ukraine crisis as his new ambassador to Washington.

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump met last April with the Russian ambassador at the center of a pair of controversies over engagement between Trump allies and the Kremlin, despite claims by his spokeswoman that he had "zero" involvement with Russian officials during the campaign.

EghtesadOnline: Russia warned that efforts to restore relations with the U.S. are being harmed by a “malicious campaign” over meetings between its envoy to Washington and President Donald Trump’s administration.