Moscow does not follow the work of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller and has repeatedly stated the complete absurdity of the so-called Russiangate, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.
The US-led coalition carried out airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, leaving eight people dead, SANA news agency reported on Friday.
Israel plans to build an underground barrier along its Egyptian border near the Gaza Strip to prevent the militants of Daesh (outlawed in Russia) operating on the Sinai peninsula from digging tunnels into Israel, local media reported Friday.
The Kremlin agrees with the assessment by US President Donald Trump about the dangerously low level of relations between Russia and the United States, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has claimed he "fought hard" in 2015 to prevent Greece being expelled from the single currency, and ensure the stability of the economically ravaged country. Greek society may beg to greatly differ.
Russia’s Gazprom would be better off pumping its gas to Europe through the Opal pipeline rather than via Ukraine, energy expert Alexei Grivach told Sputnik.
Moscow regrets that the UN Security Council has not condemned the recent shelling of the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The main parade marking the Russian Navy Day will be held annually from this year forward, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Friday.
Amid the recent cooling of ties between Oslo and Moscow, Norway decided to undo its diplomatic mission in Russia's Murmansk, despite bustling cross-border cooperation in the Arctic, which seems to be unperturbed by either sanctions of political rhetoric. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this move has stirred the ire of many Norwegians.
A television show which is being lined up to replace "Game of Thrones" has caused huge controversy already, with a Twitter campaign to stop it before it has even started filming. "Confederate" is set in an alternative future where the Confederacy won the US Civil War and slavery remains legal.
The Taliban terrorist group (outlawed in numerous countries) attacked an Afghan Border Police outpost in the province of Zabul on Thursday evening, killing at least 15 policemen and injuring two others, local media reported Friday, citing sources.
Jakarta and Moscow hope to increase the bilateral trade turnover to amount almost $3 billion this year, Indonesia’s Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita told Sputnik on Friday.
A presenter tries to continue with her broadcast, despite a giant bird hogging her air-time.
No one was injured in the flooding at the Alrosa diamond mining group's Mir mine in the town of Mirny in Yakutia (eastern part of Siberia), the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Sputnik on Friday.
Turkey and Qatar will hold joint naval drills on August 6-7, as part of a two-stage joint exercise amid the ongoing diplomatic crisis between Doha and several other Arab states, Anadolu news agency reported Friday citing Qatar's Defense Ministry.
During a visit to Montenegro US Vice President Mike Pence said the country was playing a leading role in advancing stability and security of the Western Balkan region. The experts Sputnik talked to wondered if Mr. Pence really knew anything about the country he had come to.
Members of the Pakistani interim government took the oath of office on Friday in the country's capital of Islamabad, local media reported.
The Indian government is going ahead with talks to establish the first nuclear power plant with the US help despite financial trouble in Westinghouse Electric Company. This comes amid the worsening nuclear business the world over.
The European Commission vowed to consider countermeasures in response to the new US law on anti-Russian sanctions which risk damaging Europe's economic interests. At the same time, Brussels is unlikely to engage in a full-fledged standoff against Washington.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy are holding a joint press conference ahead of their tour aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in Star City, Russia.
China strongly opposes any unilateral sanctions imposed by any country, conserning those recently enacted by the United States, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
For nine months, a 28-year-old man from Brazil has availed himself of Sweden's hotels without forking out a single krone. The serial sleeper was arrested earlier this year and has now been sentenced to eight months in prison for gross fraud.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has started to test its new system, called Counter Improvised Explosive Device and Mine Suite mobile system, which is expected to make a "breakthrough" in the fight against improvised explosive devices (IEDs) actively used by terrorists, media reported.
The European Union managed to influence the softening of some wordings of the US law on sanctions, including against Russia, in the process of its approval, Russia's Permanent Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said in an interview with Sputnik.
A spokesperson for the Russian Embassy in Iran told Sputnik about possible talks with military experts and meeting between Russian Deputy PM and Iranian Defense Minister.