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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Saturday said that May 9 will be a difficult working day for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson says Russia and China appear to be coordinating closely with Iran on a new security framework for the Gulf.

US President Donald Trump said Washington could consider moving part of its forces from Germany to Poland if troops are withdrawn from German territory.

Some votes are still being counted in England, but one thing is already clear: Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has taken a major hit.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, held a phone conversation, during which the sides noted the advisability of returning to efforts to normalize relations between Iran and the Arab monarchies, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Trade between Russia and Belarus is at a record level, despite the difficulties being created from outside, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall after arriving in Moscow on Friday to participate in Victory Day celebrations.

A "calibrated escalation" is likely to follow the overnight US-Iran clash in the Strait of Hormuz, veteran war correspondent Elijah J. Magnier tells Sputnik.

Both planes — the hero of 1941 and today's valiant successor — share the same gritty job: protecting ground troops.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The situation at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Iran is generally calm, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said on Friday.