According to the group’s spokesman, the leader of Syrian opposition group Syria’s Tomorrow Ahmad Jarba may come to Moscow later this month for talks with Russian Foreign Ministry officials.
The Kremlin spokesman said Moscow will "patiently explain" to the new US administration why Crimea is Russian.
Nearly a quarter of over eight million Russians recently surveyed have expressed their desire to receive a free hectare of land in the Russian Far Eastern region of Khabarovsk.
The NATO chief said he did not see an imminent cyberattack threat but the alliance stepped up its capabilities.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that it is necessary to develop competition and to reduce the excessive presence of the government in the economy.
Allegations about the "close calls" between American and Russian warplanes operating in Syria are part of the outgoing US Administration's information war against Moscow, Russian military expert Konstantin Sivkov told Sputnik.
The Kremlin spokesman reiterated that Moscow considers groundless accusations of cyberattacks on the US "complete nonsense".
The Syrian opposition Popular Front for Change and Liberation welcomes the idea of holding opposition talks in Moscow on the issue of forming a single delegation at the Geneva intra-Syria negotiations, the coalition’s head Qadri Jamil told Sputnik.
Austria's Foreign Minister said that fight against terrorism and radicalism would be a top priority during Austria's chairmanship at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Representatives of the Syrian opposition are planning to hold a meeting in Moscow on January 26-27 to discuss the issue of forming a single delegation ahead of the Syrian talks in Geneva scheduled for next month, a source close to the talks told Sputnik.
Beijing said it was committed to cooperation with other sides, including Washington, to prevent cyberattacks.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow considers the buildup of US military presence in Europe near the Russian borders as a threat.
The paper of World Bank, presented at the 2017 Gaidar Forum in Moscow, stressed that Russia must revive its productivity by removing constraints such as rules favoring incumbent market players, non-tariff import barriers and regulations stifling competition, as well as developing its "feeble" financial market.
Russia and the United States have the capacity for more mutual respect in bilateral relations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, adding that he hopes the countries' leaders would get on well.
New OSCE chairman Sebastian Kurz has declared he wants to build bridges in Europe and lift anti-Russian sanctions, but it remains to be seen whether he can repeat his successful handling of the recent migrant crisis, Austrian commentator Stefan Haderer wrote.
German economy grew by 1.9 percent of the gross domestic product amid a large number of people seeking refuge immigrated, which resulted in considerable costs, according to the federal statistics office Destatis.
UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Millennium Development Goals said that 2015 Paris agreement on climate change has caused an increase in global investments in renewables and low carbon energy.
A potential free trade deal between Washington and London is unlikely to avoid threatening the environment, UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Jeffrey Sachs told Sputnik on Thursday.
Raiffeisen Research, the research arm of Raiffeisen Banking Group, one of the largest banking networks in Central and Eastern Europe, has come out with a gloomy report on Ukraine's prospects. Any significant shift in relations between Russia and the US could mean in serious consequences for Ukraine's economy and foreign policy, researchers say.
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The Ukrainian leader will meet the US vice president on January 15.
A group of nine people including their leader, a citizen of Slovakia, have been charged in the Hungarian city of Mosonmagyarovar with the smuggling of migrants from refugee camps in Hungary into the countries of Western Europe, media reported on Thursday.
Serbia, which is not part of the EU has found itself in the middle of the migrant crisis, after the closure of the Balkan route, used by migrants to break into the EU. At least a thousand migrants are now sleeping rough in the county’s capital. Sputnik discussed the issue with Ivan Miskovic, a spokesperson for the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees.
Two soldiers were killed during an operation eliminating a militant group in the Chechen Republic on Wednesday.
Preparations for the upcoming international meeting in Astana on the Syrian settlement were discussed in conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev, according to the Kremlin press service.