Russian authorities have declared the outcome of a controversial regional election invalid. Voters must therefore once again go to the ballot box in the southeastern region of Primorski, where sitting governor Andrej Tarasenko of pro-Kremlin party United Russia previously surprisingly won the election.
Russia has identified the two men suspected by the British authorities of the attack on Sergey Skripal and his daughter. According to President Vladimir Putin, it is about ordinary citizens. He expressed the hope that they will tell their own story to the world.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to visit Russia. According to him, this could take place during an economic forum in September, according to news agency TASS.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said at the summit with US President Donald Trump that he is open to a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. This is reported by the Japanese newspaper Japan Times on the basis of government sources.
During an international economic conference in September in Vladivostok, Russian president Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un can meet. The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, discussed this during his visit to Pyongyang last week, the Kremlin reported Monday.
Russian opposition leader Alexej Navalni has been nominated by his supporters as presidential candidate, even though he does not stand a chance. The authorities refuse Navalni to participate in the elections on 18 March because he has a criminal record. Nevertheless, so-called initiative groups came together in twenty cities, from Vladivostok to Moscow, to support the candidacy of the anti-corruption activist.
The United States responded reluctantly to the resumption of shipping between Russia and North Korea. Katina Adams, Foreign Affairs spokesman, said Monday that Washington expects every UN member, including Russia, to abide by the sanctions imposed on Pyongyang because of the nuclear threat and rocket program.
North Korean officials do not want to talk to Russia with their South Korean colleagues. A proposal for this has been rejected.
Russia intends to build bridges connecting the mainland through the eastern island of Sachalin with Japan. That has said President Vladimir Putin.
The North Koreans have taken an economic summit in Russia to warn the United States. According to the TASS press office, the envoy of Pyongyang said that his country has 'nuclear weapons, hydrogen bombs and intercontinental missiles.'
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want to stop oil supplies to North Korea for the moment. Such a measure could affect patients in North Korean hospitals or other citizens, according to Putin, according to the South Korean press office Yonhap.
According to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, North Korea must understand that it does not have a 'rosy future' if the country does not change course. The Prime Minister wants to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula in Vladivostok this week with the South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia is prepared to support a new United States resolution on North Korea, provided that military tensions do not escalate and it is aimed at finding a diplomatic solution.
Russian police on Sunday, opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the center of Moscow arrested during a demonstration against corruption.
It works Russia and Japan not to make peace. After World War II the Soviet Union occupied the Japanese Kurile archipelago. Tokyo wants back and Moscow refuses. The disagreement put diplomatic relations already under pressure seven decades.
