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.

The US Treasury Department has announced it has removed three Russian companies connected to Oleg Deripaska from its sanctions list.

And the winner of this round is Vladimir Putin. That is the best way to sum up the recent talks between the Russian president and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Attacks on and around Damascus airport will not be tolerated, Russian officials have told Israelis, according to a report published in London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.The Russians are currently looking at steps necessary to bring the Syrian capital’s airport back to full operational capability, the paper said, quoting Russian ‘technical sources’.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared polling data during the 2016 presidential campaign with a business associate accused of having ties to Russian intelligence, and prosecutors say he lied to them about it, according to a court filing.

A Trump administration official’s plan to host a sanctioned Russian nationalist in the U.S.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released two reports by data analytics firms that concluded the Russian government’s “computational propaganda to misinform and polarize US voters” dates back to 2012, was widespread and reached tens of millions of Americans through social media.

Amidst an ongoing row concerning Turkey’s decision to buy a Russian air defense system, the U.S. State Department has cleared Ankara to purchase a package of Patriot systems, with an estimated price tag of $3.5 billion.

Alarmed by the growing popularity of rap among Russian youth, President Vladimir Putin wants cultural leaders to devise a means of controlling, rather than banning, the popular music.

Ukrainian bishops on Saturday are choosing a leader for a new national church that will sideline their current Moscow-based patriarch, a move that could weaken Russian President Vladimir Putin’s power in the country.

xThe Russian Defence Ministry has commented on the disagreements with the United States over the landmark INF Treaty, as well as the situation in Syria, particularly in areas, controlled by the US-led coalition and its allies.

Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft has decided to quit Iran and the possibility of US$30 billion worth of joint Russian-Iranian investments in oil and gas projects in the Islamic Republic, Russian business daily Vedomosti reports, quoting three sources close to Rosneft’s top management.

Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft has decided to quit Iran and the possibility of US$30 billion worth of joint Russian-Iranian investments in oil and gas projects in the Islamic Republic, Russian business daily Vedomosti reports, quoting three sources close to Rosneft’s top management.