North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s armored train will arrive in Vladivostok on Wednesday ahead of the upcoming meeting between Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a source in Russia’s Far Eastern Railway told Sputnik.

A high-ranking delegation from Saudi Arabia visited the Russian Cosmonaut Training Center on Friday during its stay in the Russian capital, the center’s press service said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that Turkey understands NATO’s concerns over its procurement of the Russian S-400 air defense missiles.

U.S. prosecutors say a Russian gun-rights activist who admitted being a secret agent for the Kremlin should serve an 18-month prison sentence.

Militants from the Idlib de-escalation zone have repeatedly shelled the inhabited localities in the Syrian regions of Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo in the past 24 hours, Major General Viktor Kupchishin, chief of the Russian Center for reconciliation of the conflicting sides in Syria, told reporters on Saturday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have adopted a tough stance on the issue of Russian gas prices at Moscow talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to show Washington that Ankara remains an independent player despite purchasing S-400 missile defense systems from Moscow, secretary general of the Russian segment of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum Sergey Markov told TASS on Tuesday.

The United States warned Egypt on Tuesday against purchasing Russian Su-35 multi-role fighter aircraft, saying it would face sanctions should it go through with the procurement, Anadolu Agency reported.

A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested on Friday that a Turkish purchase of the Russian missile defense systems could present an opportunity for U.S. forces.

On March 16, 2014, Russia held a “referendum on the status of Crimea,” which was illegal from the point of view of the international community. Official Minsk, like most countries of the world, did not recognize its results

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey’s deal to buy Russian S-400 missile defense systems had “nothing to do” with the security of the U.S.

Turkey’s deal to buy Russian S-400 missile defense systems had “nothing to do” with the security of the US, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday, according to AFP.

A top US general said on Tuesday that he would recommend that the United States withhold delivery of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey if Ankara goes through with the purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system.

A crab fishing boat from the western Japan prefecture of Shimane has been seized by Russian authorities in the Sea of Japan for allegedly fishing illegally in Russia’s exclusive economic zone, prefectural officials said Saturday.

On January 23, the Russian Defense Ministry displayed in an Expo Center in Moscow its new 9M729 missile — claiming, contrary to U.S. assessments, that its characteristics do not violate the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).

Russian servicemen discovered this month three arms caches belonging to militants in Syria that contained more than 250 pieces of small arms, head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Center for Syrian Reconciliation Lt.

The Russian, Turkish and Iranian presidents are scheduled to meet on Syria in February, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.