'Get your gold from under your pillow and exchange it for Turkish lira.' With that call, also for euro banknotes, President Recep Tayyip asked Erdogan Turks to use their property as 'resistance against the whole world'.
The four members of the punk band Pussy Riot who were stuck for fifteen days because they ran into the field during the finals of the World Cup, have been picked up again after their release. Pussy Riot announced on Monday evening via Facebook that they were taken away immediately after leaving the prison in Moscow.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will make a state visit to Germany, probably at the end of September, reported the German newspaper Bild in Saturday editions, referring to government sources in Berlin and Ankara.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited his American counterpart Donald Trump to visit Moscow. The Russian leader said at a top of emerging economies (BRICS countries) in South Africa also to be willing to travel to Washington for consultation.
Israel appears to have released a Turkish militant at the request of US President Donald Trump. He thought that Ankara would release the American preacher Andrew Brunson in exchange, but Trump is disappointed for the time being.
Russia must immediately provide the detained Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike for more than two months, with appropriate medical treatment in a hospital. This 'urgent' appeal was made by the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday. The judges in Strasbourg ask the 42-year-old filmmaker to eat again and accept a life-saving treatment.
A dog has opened the cargo hatch during a flight from Saint Petersburg to Moscow. As a result, the passenger unit was forced to make an emergency landing. The dog had escaped from his cage in the luggage room and in one way or another had opened the hatch of the Boeing 737, reports the Russian news agency Interfax on the basis of an employee from the Moscow airport.
The Russian government has started an internet campaign for the release of Maria Boetina, who has been arrested in the US on suspicion of espionage. The Russian Foreign Ministry has changed its profile picture on Twitter with a picture of the Russian with the text #FreeMariaButina. According to Moscow, her arrest is politically motivated.
The White House has rejected a request from Russia to interview American citizens. Those citizens, including former US ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul, are suspected by the Russian judiciary of various crimes in that country.
Russia has to pay three members of Pussy Riot a compensation of thousands of euros. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the rights of women have been repeatedly violated during their trial. The activists would also have been disproportionately severely punished.
That Donald Trump for the whole world declares to believe Vladimir Putin on his blue eyes is bad news for the relatives of the MH17 disaster. If there is one man who could force Putin to cooperate more in finding and prosecuting the guilty of the murder of 298 people on board the aircraft, then it is the American president.
A court in Moscow has imposed a jail sentence of fifteen days on a member of the punk band Pussy Riot who ran the field on Sunday during the World Cup finals. The band has announced this via its own Facebook page. Veronika Nikulshina also gets a ban on visiting sporting events.
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin meet for a summit in the Finnish capital of Helsinki on Monday.
The members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot who stormed the field during the finals of the World Cup football have received hefty fines. The band members who ran up the field wore police uniforms. They get fines for both the uniforms and entering the field. Converted the members must pay 2700 euros.
The Foreign Ministers of the G7 countries have called on Russia to provide clarification on the crash of the MH17 passenger plane. The Boeing was brought down from Schiphol to Malaysia in July 2014 by an anti-aircraft missile in eastern Ukraine. All 298 occupants died. Among them were 196 Dutch.
In the last 24 hours before the start of the final of the World Cup, 4600 Croatians from the government quickly received a passport or other valid travel document. That makes it possible for them to travel to Russia to attend the competition.
The twelve Thai big boys and their coach are not allowed to watch the final of the World Cup live. That is what the hospital in Chiang Rai determined. According to the hospital, the duel between France and Croatia starts late in the evening.
There are prophets who predict that the globe is gradually going down in tourism. Because of the World Cup football, Russia has almost a million additional foreign visitors to stow. Everyone is full of praise. But interest in cities such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and boat trips along the Volga has been rising for years.
Russia and Israel have signed a deal about the conflict in Israel. According to diplomatic sources, Russia is doing everything to keep Iran's presence in Syria away from the border with Israel, which in turn will not intervene if the Syrian regime regains control in southern Syria.
What could have become a drama ended this afternoon as a fairy tale. The twelve Thai football players of the Wilde Zwijnen team and their coach have all escaped from the Tham Luang cave. Hollywood is warming up for the story that seems written for the white screen.
The eyes will be focused on Donald Trump this week at the NATO summit. It is expected that the US president will again read the heads of government of the member states, which in his view are still insufficient in defense, to read the lesson in the new headquarters in Brussels.
The leaders of the EU and the President of Ukraine call on Russia to 'accept its responsibility' for the downing of the MH17. President Petro Poroshenko, EU President Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker ask Moscow to 'fully cooperate in all efforts to establish liability'.
Even the ballerinas of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow dropped tutu's on the wooden dressing room floor during the break of Swan Lake in their tunnels last Sunday. Via the mobile phone of one of the dancers they wanted to get as much as possible from the football shooter of their country against Spain.
The youth football team stuck in a Thai cave may attend the final of the World Cup in Russia. FIFA world football association wants to treat the twelve young people and their trainer to a visit to the sports spectacle in Moscow.
The British government has called on Russia to clarify the poison novitsjok that has re-emerged in the south of England. The latest incident in which a British couple is hospitalized in a critical condition follows the poisoning in March of a Russian ex-spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter. The nerve gas Novitsjok was once developed in the Soviet Union as a weapon of mass destruction.
The Turkish authorities have ordered the arrest of dozens of army officers. According to state press agency Anadolu, they are suspected of having ties with the organization of Fethullah Gülen, who is held responsible by Turkey for the failed coup in 2016.
A Lebanese young man who himself is supporter of Brazil, was stabbed to death by a fan of Germany on Wednesday evening. This is reported by various local news sources, including Gulfnews.
There will be a summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The two countries will announce on Thursday where they will take place and at what time.
The largest opposition party CHP has called on the Turks to come to the building of the National Electoral Council in Ankara to demonstrate and to keep going until the dawn. Spokesman Bülent Tezcan said Sunday that news agency Anadolu, the only official source for preliminary results, continually misrepresents.
A 32-year-old woman came to the doctor with complaints. She had a moving bump in her face for weeks. First under eye, then above her eyelid and then in her lip. What turned out? It was a living parasite, which can be up to 30cm long.
