Russia says the West should stop claiming Moscow and Beijing threaten Greenland

Russia said on Thursday that its was unacceptable for the West to keep claiming that Russia and China threatened Greenland. (AP/File)
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Updated 15 January 2026
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Russia says the West should stop claiming Moscow and Beijing threaten Greenland

  • “First they came up with the idea that there were some aggressors,” ⁠Zakharova said
  • “We stand in solidarity with China’s position”

MOSCOW: Russia said on Thursday that it was unacceptable for the West to keep claiming that Russia and China threatened Greenland, and said the crisis over the territory showed the inconsistency of the West’s implementation of the ⁠so-called “rules-based” order.

“First they came up with the idea that there were some aggressors, and then that they were ready to protect ⁠someone from these aggressors,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said of the West’s actions on Greenland.

The current situation, she said, “demonstrates with particular acuteness the inconsistency of the so-called ‘rules-based world order’ being built by the West,” ⁠Zakharova said.

“We stand in solidarity with China’s position on the unacceptability of references to certain activity of Russia and China around Greenland as a reason for the current escalation,” Zakharova said.


US to designate Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization

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US to designate Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization

  • US labels Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood as ‘terrorists’

WASHINGTON: The United States said Monday it will label the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan as a terrorist organization and accused the Islamist group of receiving support from Iran.
The designation, which will be effective in a week, comes after the United States in January declared several other Muslim Brotherhood branches to be terrorist organizations, including in its historic base of Egypt.
“The Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood uses unrestrained violence against civilians to undermine efforts to resolve the conflict in Sudan and advance its violent Islamist ideology,” the State Department said in a statement.