NATO Council to hold emergency meeting over Ukraine

The meeting of ambassadors will be followed by talks with an envoy to the alliance from Ukraine

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Belarus to get compensation for losing right to host Hockey World Championship - IIHF

Matches of the 2021 IIHF World Championship in the Latvian capital of Riga and the Belarusian capital of Minsk were scheduled to be played between May 21 and June 6, 2021

Russia’s Supreme Court rules attending football match is good reason to miss work

According to the court’s decision, if the employee warned the manager in advance and, even more so, agreed to take an unpaid day off, it should not count as a missed day of work

Russian diplomat urges Western politicians commenting on Navalny case to respect law

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova asked Jake Sullivan to tackle their own countries’ issues

Brazilian healthcare watchdog declines request for emergency use of Sputnik V vaccine

The request was returned to Uniao Quimica, because it does not comply with the minimal criteria

Russia resumes flights to Vietnam, India, Finland, Qatar on January 27

Furthermore, Russia to fly five flights per week to Egypt

Four die as dry cargo ship sinks in Black Sea off Turkey

The vessel sank because of the bad weather conditions, Bartin Province Governor Sinan Guner said

Russian patrol ship Dmitry Rogachev passes straits towards Mediterranean region

There it will perform tasks within the permanent operational unit of the Russian Navy

European Parliament, EU foreign ministers to discuss Navalny’s detention

They ask the Russian authorities for his immediate release

Telegram moderators blocked hundreds of calls for violence during unrest in US

The service’s terms of service explicitly banned the spread of public calls for violence

Facebook, Instagram reactivate Trump's accounts

It is not yet known if Trump can publish new posts

Diplomat says some Trump supporters inquiring about Russian citizenship

According Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, such messages are coming from those who supported the Republicans who fear possible persecution because of their political views

Brazil requests new data on Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, RDIF says

According to RDIF, the regulator’s request for additional information is a standard procedure and doesn’t mean the refusal from registration

G7 summit to take place in UK’s Cornwall in June

The meeting of the leaders of the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, the US, France, Japan and the EU will also be joined by the leaders of Australia, India and South Korea

Russian sports minister supports idea of using Katyusha song as anthem at Olympics

Tokyo will host the Summer Olympic Games on July 23 through August 8, 2021

Western states use Navalny saga to distract from crises at home, says Lavrov

Russia surprised as Turkish doctors ignore Sputnik V vaccine in their review

The Russian vaccine provides full protection against severe coronavirus cases, Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey Alexei Yerkhov stressed

Russia’s withdrawal from OST is not demonstration for US administration - diplomat

Russia’s withdrawal from the treaty was a response to the decisions of incumbent President Donald Trump’s administration that had been taken well before the newly elected president’s inauguration, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

Opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova remanded in custody by Minsk court

She was detained in the early hours of September 8 on suspicion of calling for a power grab

Acting Pentagon chief says has professional respect for Russian actions in military sector

Christopher Miller also stressed that the US has "to come out of the mindset of the Cold War"

Press review: Navalny detained on arrival in Moscow and will Biden renew New START

Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, January 18th

Mass coronavirus vaccination campaign begins in Russia

Russians willing to be vaccinated can choose between two vaccines, Sputnik V and EpiVacCorona

Press review: Russia to reconsider Open Skies Treaty and Twitter targets Sputnik V vaccine

Top stories in the Russian press on Friday, January 15

Russian cargo ship sinks in Black Sea off Turkish coast

Turkey is carrying out an operation to rescue 15 crew members of the sunken vessel, Bartin Province Governor Sinan Guner said

Russia has no grounds to open criminal case in Navalny incident, says Lavrov

The top Russian diplomat recalled that Navalny’s tests conducted by both the Omsk hospital and Berlin’s Charite did not show traces of chemical warfare agents

Egyptian specialists perform clinical trials of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine

The Russian vaccine is currently a priority for research

Telegram marks Trump’s channel with over 550,000 subscribers as fake

The account was not verified by Telegram’s administration. There were no comments about the channel’s authenticity from the White House

Russian team is set to do its utmost at 2021 World Men’s Handball Championship in Egypt

Due to earlier imposed sanctions by WADA against Russian sports, the national team will be called at the championship as the Russian Handball Federation Team and instead of the Russian national flag it will be competing under the RHF flag

Dmitry Medvedev: America 2.0. After the election

In his op-ed for TASS, Dmitry Medvedev focuses on the internal and external instability currently plaguing the United States

IIHF decides to relocate 2021 Ice Hockey World Championship matches from Minsk

The decision is dictated by the tense political situation in Belarus

Kremlin: Putin will not ‘shoot himself in the foot’ to take revenge on Ukraine

Ukraine has crossed the "the red line", Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

Russia’s pullout from Open Skies Treaty was inevitable due to US position, says Beijing

On January 15, the Foreign Ministry announced that Russia launches withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies

‘Nothing on the core of the matter': Moscow chides Berlin’s response to Russia’s inquires

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the German cited "the client’s disagreement to expatiate upon his case

Russia not to ‘chase’ US out of Syria, engage in hostilities — Lavrov

The top diplomat noted that Russia is adamant about the unacceptability "of the use of force against the objects that belong to the Syrian state"

Nord Stream 2 construction in Danish waters to restart on January 15

To date, 94% of Nord Stream 2 has been finished

US to slap sanctions against Nord Stream 2 pipe-layer Fortuna on Tuesday

The basis for the US decision on sanctions is CAATSA

Navalny arrested until February 15

The Russian blogger earlier arrived in Moscow from Germany

NASA test fires engines for Moon mission carrier missile

Four engines, installed on a special stand inside the NASA testing facility, worked simultaneously for about one minute

Lavrov points out UK’s double standards in regard to the Falkland Islands, Crimea

The top diplomat recalled that Great Britain was adamant about the Falkland Islands' right for self-identification but deprecated Crimea's reunification with Russia

Moscow hails Italy’s position on EU anti-Russian sanctions, says Lavrov

Rome does not consider sanctions as an efficient instrument of influencing Moscow in particular, or anyone in principle, according to Russia's top diplomat

Navalny detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo

Navalny will be in custody until a court ruling, the press service for the Moscow department of the Federal Penitentiary Service said

Medvedev notes large-scale violations of US election law

According to the deputy chief of Russia’s Security Council, the most acute situation arose as a result of the mass postal voting, which brought Joe Biden a reported majority during the counting of ballots

Third Russian coronavirus vaccine to enter civilian circulation by March - expert

According to the Chumakov Federal Scientific Center’s Deputy Director General for Project Activities and Innovation Konstantin Chernov, more than 50 different proteins have already been found in the coronavirus genome

US calls for Navalny’s immediate release, secretary of state says

Navalny is wanted for violating the terms of his suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case

Contract killers accept cryptocurrencies as payment, Russian agency says

The expert said that it is difficult to determine the person who transfers the payment

Russia expels two Dutch embassy staffers as tit-for-tat measure

They are to leave the country within two weeks

Russia-US relations likely to remain extremely cold in coming years, says Medvedev

According to Deputy chief of Russia’s Security Council, it is highly likely the United States will consistently pursue an anti-Russian policy

Serbia opens longest gondola lift in the world at Zlatibor resort

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic took part in the opening ceremony on Thursday

Donetsk, Lugansk to unilaterally hand group to detainees to Ukraine

The group brings together women, elderly and severely ill persons

Germany grants permit for Nord Stream 2 constriction in its waters in January-May

Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the construction, can start work immediately

Japan not to avoid US control over Aegis missile defense systems, says Lavrov

The top diplomat pointed out that the US plans to deploy missile defense systems and intermediate-range missiles in Japan and South Korea threaten the security of Russian and Chinese borders

Germany seeks to bolster Western dominance of UN P5 by attacking Russia, says diplomat

According to the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, the current membership of the UN Security Council, including its permanent pool, is overrepresented by certain regions, especially Western European and other countries which include the US