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The Kremlin will consider the adoption of a possible second package of US sanctions as 'an economic declaration of war' and respond to it by all possible means.

The EU is deeply concerned about the health of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who is detained in Western Siberia and has been on a hunger strike since 14 May. In a press statement, the European Commission of Russia says 'to be expected' that the 42-year-old filmmaker receives appropriate medical treatment in a hospital.

Horrific images have surfaced from Russia where children in the crèche were tied to their beds.

New US sanctions against Russia affecting the banks or currency can be interpreted as the declaration of a trade war. The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed this warning on Friday in response to announced new US sanctions against Russia.

Moscow risks a new confrontation with the West. It revolves around the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who has been holding a hunger strike in his cell in Siberia for 89 days and can die every moment according to his family.

Co-founder Maria Alyokhina of the activist Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot hopes to perform in De Oosterpoort in Groningen in January. She has a program in which she tells others about the original group, which in 2012 made the world press with a protest in a church in Moscow against the conditions under which Russian elections were held. The action against church and Kremlin gave her a prison sentence.

A Russian court sentenced four members of an extremely violent gang to life-long prison sentences. The gang members terrorized the roads around Moscow for years, where they committed seventeen murders. A fifth man is sentenced to 20 years in prison, reports Russian media.

Russia has reacted angrily to the 'draconian' sanctions announced by the United States. The Russian embassy in the US mentions the accusation that Moscow is responsible for an attack with the nerve gas Novitsjok 'far-fetched.'

The United States holds the Russian government responsible for the assassination attempt on a former double spy and its daughter in England with the nerve gas Novitsjok. That's what spokeswoman Heather Nauert of Foreign Affairs said. She promised Moscow new sanctions. They will take effect in two weeks.

Ten years after the five-day war between Russia and Georgia, which is being commemorated this week, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has informed the West that Moscow will regard NATO membership of Georgia as a provocation that can lead to 'a gruesome conflict.'

The Russian police started an investigation after a French actor became involved in a brawl in the Russian capital. Samy Naceri, known from the Taxi films, got into a fight with another visitor of a bar, news agency TASS.

Three teenage girls who have been abused for years by their father; have retaliated by stabbing him to death.

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.

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.

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.

Amnesty International has called on the Russian authorities to take action against the defenders of lawyer Irina Birjukova, who recently fled her country for expelling her client's tortures by camp guards with a video.

The Kremlin has confirmed an American invitation to a new summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in the autumn. Both world leaders met in Helsinki last week. Little has been revealed so far about the concrete results of the consultations.

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 secret service FSB has searched offices of the space agency Roskosmos. This happened according to local media because of the suspicion that secrets about hypersonic weapons would have leaked to Western spies.

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.

Vladimir Putin has been saying for eighteen years that Russia wants to speak about everything in international consultation, on the basis of mutual respect and equality. After the Finnish summit with Donald Trump he can be more than satisfied.

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.

Two alpha men, Trump erratic and unpredictable, Putin sphinx like and unyielding. While Trump usually enters the arena completely unprepared, Putin is known for his extensive file knowledge. Some analysts hold their hearts because of this, especially in Brussels where Trump stated this week that Putin is certainly no enemy to him. 'And maybe we'll be friends someday.'

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.