Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no reason to revise relations with Saudi Arabia. He said Thursday that Russia does not have enough information about the unexplained disappearance of a Saudi journalist to justify a review of ties with Riyadh.
At the airport at the Russian resort of Sochi, a passenger plane has crashed during the landing. Several people were injured when the aircraft hit the runway Saturday morning and collided with a barrier.
Russian President Putin speaks Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday evening in her official residence, the castle of Meseberg north of Berlin. This dialogue is the first they hold in Germany since relations cooled in 2014 after the Russian annexation of Crimea and the uprising in eastern Ukraine. Merkel began her fourth reign in March and Putin was re-elected in the same month. In May, Merkel visited Putin in Sochi.
In the Russian World Cup host city of Sochi, a car was broken in on pedestrians on Wednesday. A 63-year-old man was killed. Three people were injured. That is what local media report.
Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin speak to each other in private in the Russian resort of Sochi. It is the first time since a year that the German Chancellor is in Russia. The two leaders talk about the ongoing civil war in Syria, in which Russia plays an important role as an ally of the regime.
We all know 'yellow' snow, but the population of a large part of Eastern Europe had not yet experienced this color of the atmospheric phenomenon: several places are covered with orange snow.
In 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the shooting of a hijacked Turkish passenger plane that might be used to carry out an attack on the opening of the Winter Games in Sochi.
Shortly before the official opening of the Olympic Winter Games, the Holland Heineken House in South Korean Gangneung was opened this morning.
It will take at least a week before the Winter Games start in Pyeongchang, but a record has already died: that of the number of condoms. A total of 110,000 items will be distributed.
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During the peace conference for Syria, held in Sochi on the initiative of the Russians, an agreement was reached on the formation of a constitutional committee. In Geneva, he is working on the renewal of the Syrian constitution. That is what TASS news agency drew from Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov's mouth.
Two activists from the Russian protest group Pussy Riot try to get asylum in Sweden. Lusine Dzjanjan, Aleksej Knedljakovski and their son have been in the country for about ten months, report television channel SVT. The duo is currently living in an asylum seekers' center.
The United Nations is attempting a new attempt to bring a solution to the conflict in Syria closer. UN mediator Staffan de Mistura invited the warring parties to come and talk in Vienna on 25 and 26 January.
The leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran see in the convening of a Syrian 'people's congress' a first step towards dialogue and a resolution of the conflicts in Syria.
The dog lover and president of Russia Vladimir Putin received a special sheepdog for his birthday. On Wednesday, he received a puppy from the ancient Alabai breed from his Turkmen colleague Berdimoechamedov. This is a Turkmenian variant of the Central Asian Sheepdog.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave two women grace who were sentenced to years of cell punishment because of sending text messages. They sent sms to Georgian acquaintances about the relocation of Russian military equipment on the eve of an armed conflict with Georgia in 2008.
The crash of the Russian military plane crashing in December in the Black Sea was probably caused by a pilot's error. Russian researchers concluded Thursday that the plane lost air pressure and that the pilot ignored the signals of his instruments, as evidenced by an analysis of flight data. According to the BBC, the researchers thought the pilot might have been overtaken.
Russia condemns the use of chemical weapons by anyone and wants a complete and independent investigation into the poison gas attack last month at the Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun. That said President Vladimir Putin after an interview with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Sochi.
The 37-year-old Xavier Jugelé, shot by a terrorist on the Champs Elysées on Thursday night, was one of the hundreds of police officers in November 2015 deployed at the Bataclan massacre.
Aleksandrov the choir of the Russian army on Thursday in Moscow for the first occurred in its new composition, after dozens of members of the ensemble on Christmas Day died in a plane crash near Sochi.
At wreckage of the Russian military plane that crashed Sunday in the Black Sea are no traces found that indicate an explosion or fire. It has informed the Russian Defense Ministry Thursday, the news agency Tass reported.
The sinking of the Russian military plane Sunday may have been caused by faulty valves in the wings. That has shown preliminary examination of one of the black boxes. A member of the emergency response in Russia, which said Wednesday.
The second black box of the Russian military plane Sunday in the Black Sea crashed, has been found. The Russian Sputnik news reported this Wednesday. The first box of flight data was already traced.
Russia holds the Tupolev-154 aircraft for the time being on the ground. The Russian news agency Interfax reported Tuesday that the aircraft will not take off until there is clarity about the cause of the crash of a plane Sunday in the Black Sea.
The black box was found among the wreckage of the military plane Sunday in the Black Sea crashed. The Russian news agency TASS reported Tuesday that the black box is sent to investigate Moscow.
Russia mourns Monday to the 92 victims of the air crash over the Black Sea. More than 3,500 people have been deployed to search for human remains and debris of the military plane that crashed shortly after take off from the airport of Sochi.
The search for wreckage and victims of the plane crash in the Black Sea is in the night from Sunday to Monday by. That might be a spokesman for the Defense Ministry Sunday knowing.
In the Black Sea in Sochi are the first bodies of the victims of the air crash of a Russian military plane salvaged. Among the dead are many members of the world famous Alexandrov Ensemble, the choir of the Russian army.
A Russian military plane with 91 passengers on board Sunday shortly after takeoff in Sochi disappeared from the radar. Local media reported that the plane owned by the Russian Defense Ministry was on its way to Syria.
