Even though wine production in China has slowed down a bit, along with wine imports, by 2020 the People’s Republic is expected to become the second biggest wine market around, Vinexpo executive director Guillaume Deglise told Sputnik.
Moscow may conclude agreements on deliveries of engineering industry goods to and imports of food products from Iran during Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Russia in March, Russian trade representative in Iran Andrei Lugansky told Sputnik.
The Russian RSB-Group company carried out an operation to demine an industrial facility in Libya on the country’s request, chief executive officer of the RSB-Group Oleg Krinitsyn told Sputnik.
The United States has recently deployed hundreds of troops to Syria in an apparent bid to assist the looming operation aimed at liberating Raqqa, but Washington will not be able to maintain a permanent military presence in the war-torn country, defense analyst Omar Maaribuni told RIA Novosti.
Donald Tusk's summon to the Polish Prosecutor's Office has no connection to his recent re-election as the European Council president, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chairman of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, said on Monday.
The French government's decision to allow Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu’s campaign meeting with expats in the French northeastern city of Metz was a political error and a violation of France’s sovereignty, Jacques Myard, a lawmaker from The Republicans party, told Sputnik.
It is wrong to hold another referendum on Scotland's independence, and the UK Labour Party will oppose it as the independence is not in the interests of any part of the country, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday, reacting to Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's announcement of the second vote plan.
The European Union extended on Monday sanctions in the form of travel bans and asset freezes against Russian and Ukrainian persons and entities over the crisis in Ukraine until September, the Council of the European Union said.
This past winter will not be fondly remembered by Tuotuo, who spent a week in a Beijing hospital suffering from pneumonia.
The conversation between US President and his Palestinian counterpart was fruitful as Trump favours Middle Eastern peaceful conflict resolution.
The delegation of the Syrian armed opposition confirmed on Monday its refusal to take part in negotiations on Syrian reconciliation that will be held in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana later this week, the opposition's delegation representative Osama Abu Zeid told Sputnik.
Artur Mas, the former head of the Spanish region of Catalonia, was barred by a Spanish court on Monday from public office for two years over holding an independence vote in 2014, local media reported.
Turkey has to stop comparing the Netherlands’ policy to Nazi ideology, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday.
The bitter war of words between the Netherlands and Turkey has escalated after Turkish ministers were banned from addressing rallies of Turkish citizens in Holland ahead of a controversial referendum in Turkey, which will give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan massive new powers.
All the reports about the Polish authorities’ plans to withdraw from the European Union are false, head of the Polish ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Monday.
The positive assessment of the Russian business environment by foreign investors grew from 6 percent in 2015 to 23 percent in this year's report, the survey by FleishmanHillard Vanguard and Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) showed on Monday.
It turns out that US President Donald Trump was a prototype for Biff Tannen, the main antagonist of the popular TV trilogy.
A former priest has been jailed in Britain for sexually abusing a choirboy almost 40 years ago, after his dying victim gave evidence using revolutionary eye-tracking technology, which turned his blinks into words.
Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is not interested in helping French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen dissolve the European Union, PiS’ spokeswoman Beata Mazurek said Monday.
The Pentagon’s concerns over Russia’s increasing contacts with Libyan politicians and military officials stem from the fact that the United States is losing control over the situation in North Africa, according to military expert and journalist Igor Korotchenko.
According to the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, NATO is in progress on cyber defense.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg encouraged Ankara and Amsterdam on Monday to exhibit "mutual respect" in easing tensions over a ban on Turkish ministers from meetings with expats in the Netherlands.
The situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is deteriorating day by day. International organizations and the local government cannot provide women with the necessary support. Sputnik Arabic spoke about this situation with a specialist in the protection of women’s and children’s rights, lawyer Sabah Hallak.
CyberEdge, a premier research and marketing consulting firm, which serves the needs of high-tech vendors and service providers, has released a study that shows how a third of businesses were infected with ransomware globally in 2016.
The agreement on oil output curb by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC producers may not be able to get extension due to members' decisions and growing shale oil production in the United States, a representative of Russian oil giant Rosneft told Sputnik Monday.