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President Trump stands firmly behind his criticized Justice Minister Jeff Sessions. He said he had in his Thursday 'total confidence'.

The US Attorney Jeff Sessions will continue to be heavily under fire for his alleged contacts with Russians. Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives on Thursday demanded the resignation of Sessions with the words: 'Anything other than resignation is unacceptable.'

The leader of the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi believes that Justice Minister Jeff Sessions must go. That Pelosi said Wednesday in response to the disclosure of the Washington Post that Sessions twice spoke with the Russian ambassador, but that has not been reported when he was nominated as minister.

After the verbal suggestions of the presidents Trump and Putin in recent weeks, there was Tuesday officially a different sound. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rjabkov described the relationship with the United States bluntly as 'the worst since the Cold War.'

After the verbal suggestions of the presidents Trump and Putin in recent weeks, there was Tuesday officially a different sound. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rjabkov described the relationship with the United States bluntly as 'the worst since the Cold War.'

Thousands of Russians have Sunday participated in a commemorative march through Moscow Boris Nemtsov. The opposition leader two years ago near the Kremlin murdered on the street.

Russia has again sent a cargo ship to the International Space Station for the first time since the accident in December, an unmanned spacecraft. Progress has scheduled two tons of stock to the station, as did the Russian space agency Roskosmos said Friday.

The Swede Joakim Robin Berggren, on Tuesday in Barcelona panic caused by a stolen truck with gas cylinders to drive in traffic in central Barcelona, ​​there chased the night before his kamikazerit whopping 20,000 euros through at a party. The Swede still staying at the psychiatric ward of the Hospital del Mar in the city. The police can not question him yet.

A detainee activist of the Russian opposition, Ildar Dadin, the Russian Supreme Court to be released immediately. The Supreme Court judges have his conviction set aside from 2015, Russian media reported Wednesday.

A remarkable plan from the pen of the government Trump has caused furious reactions from the Russians. Michael Cohen, the house attorney for the American president, the now redundant security adviser Michael Flynn would have offered a solution to the conflict in Ukraine. The proposal means a long lease agreement with Russia for the Crimea. That reports The New York Times.

Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitali Tsjoerkin is deceased Monday in New York. The newspaper The New York Post reported that he morning was with heart problems urgently transferred to the New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Marika Rokk was during the Nazi period, the absolute top as an actress. Hitler was a big fan of hers and Culture Minister Joseph Goebbels had an affair with her. After the war she received as punishment a temporary ban on playing, but now it appears that she was for many years a spy for the Soviet Union.

Unlike previous words of Donald Trump, the US remains strong behind the European Union. With that message has been the US Vice President Mike Pence Monday to Brussels.

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Seraj hopes that Russia can play a mediating role in his country. Seraj said in an interview that Moscow may serve as an intermediary between him and General Khalifa Haftar which has strong support in eastern Libya.

Huge clouds of black smoke hanging over Mytishchi, a town near Moscow. Nearly four thousand square meters of a large market are on fire. It is still unclear how could cause the fire, and stored on and around the market are huge piles of wood.

Ukraine and Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have reached an agreement on a file. That said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Saturday. According to Lavrov goes Monday in the file.

Russian warplanes have goals of Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa bombarded with a series of cruise missiles. That the defense ministry in Moscow announced Friday.

Russia has never had great expectations about improving relations with the United States under Donald Trump. That the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday. 'Therefore, we should also not be disappointed.'

'The government Trump running like a well oiled machine and there was no chaos surrounding the importation of the travel ban,' Donald Trump told his audience personally during a marathon press conference. The man known as a thought it high time to turn back towards the media and jumped at his own request on the podium in the White House for a showdown with the much maligned journaille by him.

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.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is Michael Flynn has not asked to speak with the Russian ambassador Sergei Kisljak on the sanctions imposed by the Obama administration against Moscow, but if it had been necessary, he would surely have done.

The new US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, Thursday in Bonn has said his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. Afterwards Tillerson said he can work where it makes sense, but that Moscow itself or must adhere to the agreements made in Ukraine with Russia.

The US president Donald Trump has his national security adviser Michael Flynn asked to resign because he did not entirely trust him. That spokesman Sean Spicer White House said Tuesday.

Russia denies any involvement in the French presidential election. The Kremlin claims to have nothing to do with spreading false news or Internet attacks. But the camp of presidential Macron held Tuesday his accusation about standing.

The US national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned. That US media reported citing sources in the White House. General Keith Kellogg would be designated as a temporary successor.

President Donald Trump 'evaluate' the situation around his discredited senior adviser Michael Flynn. Trump consults according to his spokesman including with Vice President Mike Pence about the fuss.

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was last year's target of a successful hacking attack. A source at the Italian Government to Friday confirmed to The Guardian. It is suspected that Russia was behind the attack.

The call from the US government to distribute fairly the burdens of NATO on the Member States is a reasonable requirement ' '. That the German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Friday after a meeting with her US counterpart Jim Mattis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet a good idea his US counterpart Donald Trump in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana. Slovenia, where Trump's wife Melania comes from, has offered to host for the summit, reported Russian media.

Russia claims that cyber attacks would want to influence the results of the Dutch parliamentary elections, his bizarre manifestations of hysteria. This said Kremlin spokeswoman Mary Zacharova Thursday, reported news Sputnik.