Russian aid trucks leaving for Moscow region

On October 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Sochi to agree on a ten-provision memorandum on joint operations to control the situation in northeastern Syria

On December 5, Russia’s TVEL fuel company informed Teheran that it had suspended work on a project to revamp two chains of gas centrifuges at Iran’s Fordow facility

The Normandy Four summit (Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France) will be held in Paris on December 9

A meeting of the Joint Commission of the JCPOA was held in Vienna on December 6

The corvette will test-fire its main missile system against various types of targets, according to the Northern Fleet's press office

Top stories in the Russian press on Friday, December 6

China urges US to stop interfering in its internal affairs, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said

The effort is carried out by the European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano

The president expects dynamics of GDP growth in Russia to remain positive in 2019

The Victory Day Parade to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be held in Moscow on 9 May 2020

The prospective participant Alina Sanko does not have enough time to get a US visa and prepare for the Miss Universe pageant, director of the Miss Russia contest Anastasia Belyak said

"That’s why we will have to think how to quickly deliver blood samples to Europe", Deputy Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency Margarita Pakhnotskaya said

Several hundred opposition members came to October Square holding nationalist white-red-white flags and chanting "Live Belarus"

The main thing is that the opportunities should be equal, noted Belarusian President

The US team is second

The fraudster installed fake border posts in a forest in Russia’s Leningrad Region near the Finnish border to deceive a group of four foreign nationals

Alisher Usmanov said that the ruthless fight against doping shall not be turned into lynching and the application of new sanctions for the second time for the same doping violation

The Russian president noted that he hopes that the conditions will change through negotiations

The meeting also touched upon a strategy of territorial defense

A more compact PP-2000 submachine gun is meant to replace the Kalashnikov AKS-74U assault rifle

Deutsche Welle asked Tokayev whether the Kazakh government had been "frightened" by the events in Ukraine, namely the "annexation" of Crimea

The Atlet is currently completing preliminary tests

Dmitry Medvedev noted that Ukraine received Russian gas through reverse flow supplies, "but at a much higher price than it could"

Top stories in the Russian press on Tuesday, December 3

Russian and Ukrainian companies will hopefully find a mutually acceptable solution, the president said

"Peace, security and development in a single, democratic country is the only goal of the president and the entire negotiating team", Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadim Pistaiko said

"Our colleagues at the government level, ministers, chairmen of governments have done quite a lot to analyze what had been done within the framework of the Union State treaty", said Russian President

Turkey's diplomat did not rule out the possibility of deliveries of US Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems to Ankara

After the negotiations and communication in the format of a working lunch, the ministers will also hold a joint press conference

The first issue is return of all detainees from Russia and Donbass, said Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Aleksei Danilov

Deputy leader of the Serbian Radical Party Vojislav Seselj believes Serbia must get integrated with Russia to the maximum extent through the Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organization

"We have chosen the gas pipeline’s route to ensure that it can reach as many settlements as possible", Alexei Miller said

Putin highly appreciates progress reached between the two countries over the past years on the path towards integration and cooperation

Top stories in the Russian press on Thursday, December 12

The spokesperson Yulia Mendel stressed that the meeting of the Normandy Four leaders was a real chance for achieving ceasefire in Donbass

By 2020 it's necessary to stop the old Soviet-time fleet of icebreakers, according to the deputy director general of Atomflot

The Su-57 with the second stage engine known as Item 30 performed its debut flight in December 2017

The call with Vladimir Zelensky was very constructive, the IMF Managing Director said

Mark Esper said that "the department is investing every dollar it can" in order to gain an advance in hypersonic weapons

"The task is to harmonize the entire legal framework, both Belarusian and Russia, with hundreds of laws and dozens of intergovernmental agreements by June 1, 2020", Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Vladimir Semashko noted

On December 9, leaders of the Normandy Four group comprising Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will hold a summit in Paris to look for solutions to the conflict in Donbass

Opposition activists agreed to hold another rally on December 20

The Eastern Military District’s anti-aircraft gunners earlier learnt to operate the new system at the Kapustin Yar training range in the southern Astrakhan Region, the press office informed

Top stories in the Russian press on Wednesday, December 4

Russia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrey Kelin said that NATO's dual approach toward Russia "includes military pressure and maintaining dialogue"

The pilots performed flights at an extremely low altitude of about 5 meters

Police beef up security outside Russian embassy in Minsk amid opposition rally

According to Lukashenko, "at the current stage commitment to the unifying idea is of great importance"

A day before, the Kazan submarine struck a notional submarine by a salvo of two torpedoes

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reminded that the United States has earlier withdrawn from the Iranian nuclear deal